I can do a rabbit hole!
Before it became known for its preserved cherries, Luxardo was a distillery on the coast of what was once an Italian province, but is now modern-day Croatia. Founded in 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo, an Italian consul in that region, the company made its name with a cherry liqueur called Maraschino, which Girolamo based on a medieval spirit. The liqueur was made from sour Marasca cherries (grown in the sandy soil of Croatia) and made by distilling the fruit’s leaves, stems, pits, and skins. (It’s those pits, by the way, that give the liqueur its characteristic nutty background flavor, which is often mistaken for almonds.)
In 1905, the distillery started selling cherries candied in a syrup of Marasca cherry juice and sugar, thus creating the original Maraschino cherry.
Wait.... did y’all just invent a New Drink, the Rabbit Hole?
Wow! Look at you, mairdie! I hope you didn’t give me your last towel......ransomnote, the Mother of Dragons, might have some extras.
Here turn around and I’ll hose you off!
Don’t mind Cboldt over there - he already knew that about the cherries and he shouldn’t be laughing so hard at how I choose to get my edumacation! I will be forever grateful that he shared his secret with me, and now I can be elegant too.
*texokie’s cut offs are beginning to dry out, as is t-shirt. Hair is getting so-so, but twigs and leaves are sticking out. Trifocals are streaked, but better. texokie downs a handful of cherries looking at the mirror hopefully*
Thank you.