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We were able to get quite a few cherries from our new friend's trees. We've gone 2x so far to pick and may be able to still pick more. After picking, we pitted the cherries. I found it easiest to use a corn skewer to dig down into the top of the cherry to the side of the pit and get under it and pop it out. Thankfully my 2 oldest kids helped although the cherries were a bit mangled. I figured it was worth it to get it done quicker and good practice for them.
After pitting them, I made the cherries into a cherry pie filling sauce. It was really easy. Here's my recipe for cherry pie filling:
INGREDIENTS:
8 cups tart cherries
5 tablespoons cornstarch
2 1/2 cups sugar
PREPARATION:
Wash and pit cherries. Drain. Combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in cherries; let stand until juices begin to flow, about 30 mins. Cook over medium heat until mixture begins to thicken. Ladle pie filling into can or freeze jars or plastic freezer bags, leaving 1/2 inch of headspace.
Cool at room temperture, not to exceed 2 hours. Seal, label, and freeze.
I froze my cherry pie filling right away. Today I defrosted some and used it to make Cherry Crisp. It was so good! You basically put the cherry pie filling on the bottom and then use any recipe for the topping to make the crisp. The one I used was just flour, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. We topped it with vanilla ice cream shortly after baking it in the oven. SOOO Good!
I'm hoping to get some more cherries this week before they're done! What a blessing to get these cherries for free!
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Posted by gabbie427 on Mon 6 Aug 2007 at 08:42 - Link
Sounds yummy!! Too bad DH doesn't like cherries. He won't know what he is missing! LOL Thanks for sharing.
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