Bought a quart of sour cherries but they are dark purple instead of red

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colleenmomof2

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like the ones we got last year. Eating a few and pitting/freezing the rest. Not sure what we'll do with them. Not as "tart" as last year's red ones. Still tasty but soft. Colleen

 
there are different varieties of sour cherries . . .

I bought a lot of frozen tart cherries and I was told they are Montmorency, which is a variety that is good dried and fresh for pies. Sad to say, my cherries were rather lackluster in flavor; they tasted like the flavor had been watered down, like they had a bunch of rain just before picking.

My cherries came from the vicinity of Boring, Oregon. Maybe they did get too much rain. . . I have made two pies with them. The second pie I "doctored up" the cherry filling by making it with some condensed sour cherry juice, extra lemon juice and some Cherry Eau de Vie. I wish I did not have to doctor so much!

Where are your cherries from?

 
Exactly! Lackluster, like the flavor had been watered down

I pitted and froze most of them. I will try your suggestion of enhancing w/cherry juice concentrate when I do use them - probably along with our frozen Georgia peaches and West Michigan blueberries. Thanks for your advice! Colleen

 
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