Extra jam prepared with sour black cherries and brown sugar. To spread on bread, to garnish cakes, with white yogurt or to pair with ricotta cheese or mascarpone. It goes very well on toasted buttered bread.
Jam to enjoy spread on bread, as a filling for croissants, to stuff cakes, tarts and on ice cream. It is excellent mixed with yogurt and fresh cheeses. After opening store in the refrigerator.
The origin of the sour black cherry tree is uncertain. Somebody thinks that it comes from Western Asia or Estern Europe, while others deem it as European endemic, due to findings of cherry seeds in prehistorical sites from Central Europe. According to tales, the tree was brought to Italy by a roman general, Luculus, famous for his luxurious feasts: it was him who planted the fisrt tree in his very garden, around 65 BC.
