Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tree of any of several cultivars of the sour cherry that bear small bitter fruit from which maraschino is made.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small black wild cherry, a variety of Prunus avium, from which maraschino is distilled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
- noun The
marasca cherry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
European cultivar of thewild cherry ,Prunus cerasus , that has bright redfruit used for makingmaraschino .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
- noun small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once upon a time, a marasca was a bitter cherry that grew wild in Croatia’s Dalmatian mountains.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Once upon a time, a marasca was a bitter cherry that grew wild in Croatia’s Dalmatian mountains.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Once upon a time, a marasca was a bitter cherry that grew wild in Croatia’s Dalmatian mountains.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The real deal is a sour Morello cherry, the marasca, that has been candied and then preserved in a booze-infused cherry syrup.
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He also adds a cinnamon stick, some slices of fresh citrus and a little syrup from a jar of Luxardo marasca cherries.
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I found through dictionary.com that maraschino is a cordial or liqueur made from the Italian wild marasca cherry and that cherries preserved in this liqueur were the first maraschino cherries recorded in around 1820 though this process of preserving the marasca cherries was far older than that.
At My Table 2009
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It seems that the terms are sometimes interchangeable as the marasca is where the original 'preserved' maraschino derived from?
At My Table 2009
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The marasca cherry doesn't grow well outside its homeland and has long been replaced by other varieties for maraschino cherries, mostly sweet as far as I can tell, which is probably why bitter almond flavour is used, to mimic the sour taste.
At My Table 2009
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The kernels were crushed and fermented to make maraschino liqueur, in which whole marasca cherries were preserved.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The kernels were crushed and fermented to make maraschino liqueur, in which whole marasca cherries were preserved.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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