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UK
/mˈæɹæskɐ/
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NOUN
- Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
- small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
How To Use marasca In A Sentence
- It offers an intense aroma with strong green pepper, fruity like cherry and marasca.
- 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
- The real deal is a sour Morello cherry, the marasca, that has been candied and then preserved in a booze-infused cherry syrup. Bits & Bites: (Italian) News You Can Eat
- He also adds a cinnamon stick, some slices of fresh citrus and a little syrup from a jar of Luxardo marasca cherries. A Cocktail for What Ails You
- The kernels were crushed and fermented to make maraschino liqueur, in which whole marasca cherries were preserved. The Fruit Hunters
- That's because the "maraschino" in the Floridita recipe is not a processed cherry but, rather, a colorless liqueur made from marasca cherries grown on Italy's Dalmatian coast. Hemingway's Daiquiri
- The marasca cherry doesn't grow well outside its homeland and has long been replaced by other varieties for maraschino cherries, mostly sweet as far as I can tell, which is probably why bitter almond flavour is used, to mimic the sour taste.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
- It seems that the terms are sometimes interchangeable as the marasca is where the original 'preserved' maraschino derived from? At My Table
- Once upon a time, a marasca was a bitter cherry that grew wild in Croatia’s Dalmatian mountains. The Fruit Hunters
