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Yep, red cherries. From the looks on everyone's faces when they tasted them, they definately aren't sweet. I just need to find out what to do with them. Hate to waste all that free fruit!
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yes, my mom does it all the time. You DO have to remove the pits, but the increase in flavor make it worthwhile.
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2 pounds fresh or thawed frozen sour cherries (2 quarts), stemmed 2 cups fresh lemon juice 1 1/2 to 2 cups superfine sugar 3 cups white rum (optional) 4 to 6 cups chilled sparkling water Fresh sour cherries with stems, for garnish
Blend cherries (including pits) in a blender at low speed until skins have broken down enough to brightly color liquid (some of pits will be coarsely chopped). Pour through a sieve into a 4-quart pitcher, pressing on and discarding solids. Add lemon juice and sugar, to taste, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Pour 3 tablespoons white rum, if using, into each of 16 tall (10-ounce) glasses filled with ice. Add 1/2 cup cherry lemonade to each and top off with sparkling water.
It tells you how to store, prepare and freeze them and on the left there, there are a bunch of recipes.
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I've they're very red and very tart, they're probably pie cherries. And what do you do with pie cherries? Well... you can make a lot of pie!
You can also candy them and can them... pie cherries are actually what they make into marascino cherries. Be creative!
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Well, since we just bought a food dehydrator, and we are "in the mode," I say dry some! The dried bits would be delicious in muffins and cereal.
Come to think of it, use then as you would cranberries. I bet they would make a lovely sauce.
Edit to add the lyrics to a favorite childhood tune:
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We had the same cherries in our old house and they made great pies, at least that's what I heard. I personally hate fruit pies other than apple.
We have a black cherry tree in our yard but no others anywhere near it so it gets really pretty for a week or two but no polination occurs and sadly no cherries grow. any suggestions on what I could do about that?
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beat, do you know exactly what kind of cherry tree it is? You need two to pollinate, but you need to make sure they are the "right" two. You can't have the same two, apparently. Black Tartainian, supposedly, will pollinate most sweet cherry trees. Bees could also help. You might try calling your local co-op extension thingy and ask them. They could identify exactly what you've got and what you need.
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Wow. There are a LOT of variants on the "I Gave My Love a Cherry" song (real title seems to be The Riddle Song). And I knew it was old, but not 15th century!
This is the version my aunt taught me while rocking a baby to sleep. Since said baby is now in his late teens, I think it's been a while.
And you can hear it too, so I won't be the only one around here humming the darn thing like I have been for the last couple hours!
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Man, what movie did I just hear that in? This is the second time this week that quote has come up and I can't remember the dang movie!
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Wow -- this brings back memories, Space Opera!
Growing up we had four big cherry trees and I can remember picking for hours, then we would all sit in the living room together as a family and each have bowls on our lap, pitting cherries. That was real togetherness.
I couldn't do it as fast as grandma when I was real young, but after several years of practice I got pretty good at pitting -- it's great for hand coordination.
(We also used to sit together like this for snapping fresh-picked green beans, podding the peas, etc.) Ah - those were the good days.
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I made a cherry wheat ale once. I won't do that again.
When you make beer with fruit, you need to break them open. With cherries, that means basically squashing them one at a time and I used a lot of cherries.
Then to top it off, the beer ended up sucking.
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