My sour cherry tree is ready to pick. Any recipes or ideas of what to do with these? Thanks!

Make sour cherry preserves? Here are some other deas - Will post the recipe links if interested...

Chicken With Sage and Cherries

Pilaf with Sour Cherries and Lentils

Sour Cherry Strudel (great reviews on Epi)

Cherry Lattice Cobbler

Chocolate Shortcakes With Sour Cherry Topping

Sour Cherry Bars

 
If you have a dehydrator, try drying some. Rinse and pit first. Dry whole. They turn out like tart

raisins. Very yummy.

 
Send them to me! Make a pie smileys/smile.gif You can also pit and freeze them.

And Meryl is right, they make great preserves. My mom used to make an apricot/cherry combo - still my favorite to put on toast.

 
Can anyone tell me how to pit this many cherries? There has to be a faster way than by hand.

I cooked them with water this morning and made a chipotle cherry basting sauce. It turned out pretty good, and I didn't have to deal with the pits. I just simmered the fruit with a little water and then pressed them through a sieve. I would love to do more with them, but I just cannot imagine pitting all of these manually. Thanks!

 
Dawn, if you don't have a cherry pitting device then do this:

score the cherries quickly with a knife. Then smash down on them using your hand and a large flat-sided kniife. It is like pitting olives.....same thing. You should be able to easily take the pits out. It's what we did in the "old days". Patience is a virtue.

 
we used to spend evenings around the table or watching movies and pitting cherries -

sometimes with a pitter, and sometimes just by hand, depending on what we were using them for.

It is is chore, but the end results are worth the effort.

I had no idea growing up how wonderful it was to have a sour cherry orchard in our back yard, along with apples and apricot trees.

 
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