Cherries

[mousme]

The cherry tree has borne fruit. Hurray! Unfortunately, I have NO idea what to do with all those sour cherries. I assume I shall make some sort of preserve from them, but I don't have any recipes. Have pinged ai731 to ask what she did with them in previous years.

Anyone else have experience with these?

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

This would be the first year that the cherry tree has borne a really significant number of cherries. I planted the tree so that I could make cherry pie (and also because cherry trees are pretty). Cobbler & Clafoutis are also excellent suggestions. Also, if you let them ripen fully, they are plenty sweet enough to eat straight off the tree, imho - which is what I did last year.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

There's definitely enough fruit on there for a pie, or perhaps one or two small jars of jam of some kind.