Cerises Jubilee (Cherries Jubilee)

Ingredients

• fine cherries
• syrup
• arrowroot
• cold water
• kirsch

Instructions

1. Stone fine cherries and poach them in syrup.
2. Arrange them in small silver timbales.
3. Reduce the poaching syrup.
4. Slake arrowroot with a little cold water, allowing one spoonful of arrowroot to 3 décilitres of syrup, and thicken the syrup with it.
5. Cover the cherries with the thickened syrup.
6. Pour a teaspoonful of heated kirsch into each timbale and set it alight just as it goes to table.