BT's Fruit Topping For Cheesecake
Ingredients:
1 cup (240 grams) blueberries
1 cup (240 grams) cherries
1 cup (240 grams) sugar
2 teaspoons corn (8 grams) starch
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons Eau de Vie (or Grappa or Rum or any clear spirit)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions:
Wash fruit thoroughly
Place the blueberries in cooking pot with half of the sugar and half of the salt
Turn burner on low and cook for 1 minute stirring constantly
Add half of the Eau de Vie and cover with lid
Let cook 2 more minutes
Mix a tiny bit of water with half of cornstarch to make a paste
Remove pot from burner
Take 1 tablespoon of the juice from the pot and add to paste to temper it
Mix thoroughly
Pour paste mixture into fruit and gently stir
Return to burner and cook on low until it thickens
Remove from burner
Taste for sweetness
If too sweet add a little lemon juice
If too tart, a little sugar.
Reserve blueberries in a dish - do not refrigerate
Remove pits from cherries
Repeat process above
When cake is cool, spread half of the surface with cherries and half with blueberries
Refrigerate cake until ready to serve
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