As a recap, My wife and I found a box of old recipes in an old farm house we moved into. Some of them were insane, so we decided to cook one or two recipes per week until we get through the entire box. We will do every one, regardless of how bad we think it will be and we will follow the recipe as closely as we can within reason although we may scale it down to avoid food waste.
So, this was supposed to be posted a few days ago and I may or may not have done something stupid, hurt myself, and forgot to post. Anyway, this was one of those that was not terrible but could be a whole lot better if you take the concept and run with it.
Following the recipe, I just browned the chops and then simmered in the cherry sauce. The result was insanely overcooked, but not the worst tasting thing ever.
I also really don't like cooking with high fructose corn syrup when I can help it, and the canned cherries had it as the second ingredient.
Once the chops were done cooking, I pulled the meat out and reduced the sauce more. I then thickened with corn starch and immersion blended the cherries, added some seasoning (it's been a few days, I don't remember what) and reduced it some more. The result was an actually pretty decent sauce.
To do this well, I think that a sauce with similar seasoning but with fresh cherries, blended, could actually be pretty decent. I would also marinade ahead of time to get the flavor penetration without the need to overcook the meat.
6/10
by EnegmaticMango
2 Comments
Love seeing you continue your way through your old recipe box adventure here!
This one seems interesting and the maple corn muffins looked yummy from a couple of weeks ago.
thanks! I love fruit with meat so much. may try your version but just cherry sauce over pork tenderloin. I can only imagine how overcookedthose chops would have been!