Ohh laa laa natural coloured French Glace cherries from Tesco (Tesco Natural Colour French Glace Cherries)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tesco Natural Colour French Glace Cherries
Date:	03/10/09 (100 review reads)
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Advantages: no bright red colour used

Disadvantages: none

OOHH LA LA, French glace cherries natural coloured from Tesco.

I bought some of these dark red cherries in their 200g plastic see through pot to make some little cherry cakes for tea when my grandchildren were visiting.

I remember when as a child I used to love cherry cake and picking the cherries out. The glace cherries I remember were always a bright shiny red, I do not think the natural coloured ones have been available till more recent years.

These natural coloured cherries a much darker red than the red glace cherries I used to have. The colour still attractive and yes I did still eat one straight from the pot as I used to when I was a child.
These cherries did not seem to be quite as sticky as I remember the non natural glace cherries being.
I found these cherries tasty but although I had none on hand to compare I do not think they were quite as sweet as the bright red coloured ones.
I found the texture good quite firm and leathery I could bite a cherry it was not mushy.

To prevent my Tesco natural coloured cherries sinking to the bottom of my cake I chopped them in to 3 or 4 and then stirred them into some of the flour I had weighed out for the cake mix. . The recipe I use is a standard cake mix

4 ounces 125g self-raising flour
4 ounces 125g margarine
4 ounces 125g caster sugar
2 medium eggs
4 ounces 125 glace cherries.

This mix makes pretty good little cakes.

There are 325kcal in 100g of these cherries, hardly surprising really as glace cherries are made by boiling cherries in syrup to preserve them.

These cherries cost me £1.19 in Tesco's they are cheaper than the Whitworths cherries. They are also cheaper than the bright red glace cherries from Tesco too.
I will probably choose these to make my Christmas cake with.

Summary: Glace cherries natural colourl