Cherries Cooked in Wine with Crème Fraîche Pudding

To force you to forgive me for the partial absence of the last few days (why work always concentrates all at the same time?) I propose today another recipe for a dessert using seasonal fruit: cherries. These bright red fruits are a real treat for the eyes as well as for the palate, not to mention that I have just to move from Bologna to Modena and every 100 meters there is a shack where farmers sell them. It's impossible to resist, and in fact I can not resist!
Get ready then for a cherries week... but here's to you the first taste!

Ingredients for about 4 servings: 1.1 lb. cherries, 2 and 1/10 cups of crème fraîche, 1 vanilla pod, 3 envelopes of gelatine, 9/10 cup of sugar, 1 glass of red wine, 1 cinnamon quill, a small stripe of orange zest.

Preparation: we start preparing the pudding. Soften the gelatine in cold water for about ten minutes, while you put the crème fraîche together with the vanilla pod and 1/2 cup of sugar to cook at moderate heat until sugar will completely melt. Remove from heat, add the gelatine, after squeezing it well, and pour it all inside some molds that you'll put to rest in refrigerator for several hours.
Now the cherries. Pour in a pan a glass of water, a glass of red wine, 2/5 cup of sugar, the cinnamon stick and the orange peel. Put the pan on fire at moderate heat until sugar will melt. Pour into the cherries then and let them cook at very low heat for about an hour. Drain the cherries and, if necessary, stir the liquid on the fire until it becomes syrup.
Pour the cherries and their syrup still warm over the puddings, which have to be still cold from the fridge.