Port and Sour Cherry Sauce

40 minutes - 45 minutes

to cook

This sauce made with dried sour cherries is one of the nicest to serve with duck and can be made ahead and gently reheated.

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This recipe is from Delia's Christmas Easy Magazine, 2003 Serves 8

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Ingredients

Method

To make the sauce, place the port and the dried cherries in a medium saucepan, along with the sugar and wine vinegar.

Bring the mixture up to a gentle simmer, give it all a good stir and let it barely simmer, without a lid, for 40–45 minutes, stirring from time to time. What will happen is that the wine vinegar will slowly reduce so there are only about 4 tablespoons of liquid left. Serve the sauce warm with the confit of duck.