Cherries Jubilee can be duplicated with any fruit you happen to have around—to dress up a meal of leftovers with the final fancy touch. Best of all, the dessert course can be forgotten until the last moment—provided you know what you are going to use for it.
2 cups Bing cherries
Vanilla ice cream for 4 servings
2 ounces of Kirsch (or good brandy)
Heat cherries in their juice in the top of a chafing dish; add the Kirsch (or brandy), light with a match and stir until the flames die. Serve over vanilla ice cream. Here is one of the great basic recipes which is capable of infinite permutations and combinations! For all flaming fruits over ice cream, brandy is acceptable—but there will be an extra flavor if a fruit liqueur is also used. Fresh peaches in their juice, extended by peach brandy and flamed with 2 ounces of Armagnac, served over coffee ice cream—or defrosted packages of raspberries or strawberries,brandy-flamed and served with fresh peach ice cream. . . . Make up your own personal combinations, combining whatever
