When a colleague brings you a metric shit tonne of sour cherries, you grab a cooler and go with it.
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I have a tree! Pit and freeze for pie, can for scones or brandy soaked for lovely drinks. What are your plans for them?
sep 3, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I soak a bunch in whisky and gin and freeze a lot. Will probably do some jam too.
sep 3, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
As it happens, my first job as a teenager was weighing tart cherries when the growers brought them in from the fields. I worked in Michigan for the Wilderness brand fruit company. Over the summers, I "graduated" to the office, and the test kitchen was nearby. They'd bring in samples of new recipes!
sep 4, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
They make great pie filling, and cherry sauce (like apple sauce) and cherry salsa.
sep 3, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember those days... before the cherry maggots discovered my tree. (Years fighting them, hard to eradicate... hope better for your colleague.)
sep 2, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
They make the best cherry pie 🙂
sep 3, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
Lots of sugar and into the freezer for winter snacking. Yummmmmm!
sep 3, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view