Shirley Temple Cherries

Made as a garnish for my daughter’s all-homemade alcohol-free cocktails (find a ginger ale and a grenadine), these cherries are sweet (but not grocery-store maraschino-cherry sweet), with a gingery bite and a firm texture. You can skip the half-dehydrating step if that firmness isn’t important to you. Look for hibiscus in the bulk herbs at natural foods stores, where you can also find citric acid, or in