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?

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Re: Sour Cherries!!

[savant-da-rat.livejournal.com]

Really lazy fruit cobbler would be good too, esp. if you have some vanilla ice cream around. You could do this with just the cherries, or mix them with something else (peaches, nectarines, etc.) This recipe is great because you can whip it up in a flash, and start it in the oven when you sit down to dinner -- by the time you're done the main course, you have bubbling hot delicious cobbler! :d The fruit can be just about anything; nectarines and blackberries are my favorite.

Berry Cobbler recipe:
4 to 6 cups fruit, washed and dried
1 cup sugar (or to taste), divided
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
8 tablespoons cold butter
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Lightly grease an 8-inch-square or similarly sized baking dish with a little butter or cooking spray.
2. Toss fruit, with 1/2 cup sugar (or more to taste), until well coated. Spread fruit mixture into bottom of baking dish.
3. Combine remaining 1/2 cup sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl; mix well. Put flour mixture into food processor, add butter, and process for 10 seconds. Put the flour mixture back into bowl, mix in egg and vanilla by hand (mixture will be very sloppy, this is ok.)
4. Drop clumps of flour mixture on top of fruit by hand. You don't have to cover the fruit completely or spread it out to a smooth layer, the batter will spread on its own as it bakes -- be lazy about it! I usually do about a dozen blobs of it over the top of the fruit, more or less evenly spaced.
5. Bake until batter is golden yellow and just starting to brown and fruit mixture bubbling, about 35-45 minutes. Serve immediately, ideally with ice cream :d