Dumb question on sour cherry discussion--are they

[monj]

sometimes partly yellow? I was wanting to make the David Lebovitz sour cherry ice cream, and am having trouble finding them. I saw some in the store that were much lighter in color than normal cherries, but partly yellow. They aren't labeled as such. Any ideas?? Thanks.

 

[meryl]

It sounds like the ones you're referring to are White Cherries, which are considered sweet cherries

 

[meryl]

Here's a photo of sour cherries

http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/06/sour_cherries_and_mountain_spi.html?gs-recent

 

[monj]

Thanks so much, Meryl--when I googled sour cherry photo, the looked

a little lighter than normal sweet cherries. I will try to find them. You are right, the ones I saw were white cherries. smileys/smile.gif

 

[charlie]

Those yellowish ones are called Queen Anne at our market--never see sours--even at our WF

 

[meryl]

I've never seen sour ones around here either. Mo, maybe you can email David

and ask him how you could sub sweet cherries. He has a blog - here's the link:

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/index.html

 

[monj]

I may just do that--thanks for the suggestions. I will post results as

I know a few people have the Perfect Scoop book. smileys/smile.gif

 

[dawn_mo]

I have a sour cherry tree, and they taste like cherries only not sweet...

In a string above, mistral found them at a Mediterranean market. They are definitely not sweet and you will need to decrease the sugar if you use sweet ones.

 

[monj]

LOL, when I got home from work, my DH had found some at a local farm smileys/smile.gif Lucky