Cooking Fruits: Cherries, Plums, Greengages, Gooseberries and Damsons

All these fruits eat very well with different dishes. This recipe is really for cherries and plums, both of which are featured in the book, but also for the less frequently used fruits, gooseberries, greengages and damsons. Cherries, and in fact all of these fruits, once stoned, can be cooked in a knob of butter with sugar. The fruits will create their own liquor/syrup and are then ready to use. For every 450 g