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Post by auntieannie on Sept 23, 2017 9:31:48 GMT 2
So, mom and I spent several evenings de-stoning cherries and freezing them in the spring. now mom says that she needs space in the freezer and she wants to throw a large bag of frozen cherries in the compost as she says the small ones can be used one at a time for tarts, but the big bag won't ever separate.
Not taking into account that this assertion should be tested before it is accepted as true, do you have any fab recipe?
We won't be able to put them in alcohol, apparently.
Mom doesn't want to turn them into jam as she's the only one eating the damn thing.
We need to save the cherries!
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 23, 2017 11:12:35 GMT 2
Not quite sure of the how cherries react to freezing but with your skills couldn't you turn them into an anti-inflammatory preserve. It might be odd though, cherries plus what? Perhaps spices, oil, garlic, sounds disgusting but as long as it doesn't need refreezing ...  |
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 23, 2017 11:36:32 GMT 2
haha! turmeric, ginger, pepper, clove, etc... could be an idea... I was thinking that we could do a cherry tart, I could make a smoothie with some of the cherries, then we could use some in a sweet/savoury sauce for a meal.... and I could preserve some in some fashion; maybe as slow suggests or make a chutney or find a recipe for an asian style cherry sauce that doesn't need preserving.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 23, 2017 12:27:00 GMT 2
Our experience with cherry jam is limited. A French neighbour asked us to pick her cherries (while she was away) and make them into jam. Picking and destoning was a damn long process. When the jam was made it was pretty tasteless. We apologised to the Frenchwoman if the jam wasn't up to her usual standard. She replied that she had never made jam before.
Could you make clafoutis? Maybe freeze that?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 23, 2017 14:48:05 GMT 2
mom has made very tasty cherry jam for the past 50 or so years.
I just don't know what's going through her head.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 23, 2017 18:14:26 GMT 2
The cherries we had to make jam from were white cherries. You had superior ones.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 23, 2017 18:15:04 GMT 2
Cherries soaked in Kirsch?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 23, 2017 22:42:25 GMT 2
The cherries we had to make jam from were white cherries. You had superior ones. Yes, we have the big juicy black cherries. " noires de Bale" |
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 23, 2017 22:43:08 GMT 2
Cherries soaked in Kirsch? I don't think we can do that with de-stoned cherries that have been frozen. |
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Post by welle on Sept 24, 2017 4:40:10 GMT 2
Take big bag of cherries out of freezer. Apply hammer generously and repeatedly. Stick fragments of frozen cherries into small bags and put back in freezer.
Alternatively there have to be some friends with a freezer that would love to house some cherries? If nothing else works the Kirsch is worth a try. It might be delicious.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 25, 2017 10:13:55 GMT 2
now, she is telling me the issue with that is that some of them were wormy. well, I have seen ONE worm that obviously tried to make his way out. they would all have come out of the cherries, so if I see ONE I don't think there are any more there. anyway. nothing's been done yet, to my knowledge.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 25, 2017 13:40:21 GMT 2
Worms? That reminds me of living in the Herault. Our house was in the middle of a cherry growing area. The owners of the cherry orchards were small peasant farmers whose children had decided the bright lights and better jobs in the cities were a better
prospect than climbing ladders to pick cherries. I knew which were the abandoned cherry trees so used to gather kilos. I used to offer them to the old dears gossiping in the village square but when the end of the season approached they refused. Because of worms. Day after day we would eat these delicious cherries and never came across a worm but they old dears obviously thought I was a deluded foreigner and never accepted one.
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Post by wikki on Sept 26, 2017 20:47:41 GMT 2
Black forest cake?
Yoghurt cup cake with cherrys? ( a cup of yoghurt ( or was it sour cream...) thenyou keep using the cup for flour, sugar,then 250g butter, 4 eggs (or you use a scale... 250g of everything and 4 eggs)....
Cherry ice cream ( frozen cherrys in a blinder at little bit of sugar then cream until you like the texture.
Pancakes with cherrys....
So much things you can do with cherrys
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Post by wikki on Sept 26, 2017 20:49:22 GMT 2
For the worms...
Who cares,all what a cherry worm eat in its life was cherry....
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Post by kuskiwi on Oct 7, 2017 3:12:23 GMT 2
Not cherries but in our case blackberries - forever known in our household as bug jelly.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2017 23:18:16 GMT 2
So, there actually were two large bags. we have already dealt with one large bag. Not even one worm was found. Let me remember what we did with it. I know we made a tart and a small portion of jam. I think that was it.
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Post by ninchursanga on Oct 10, 2017 18:11:52 GMT 2
But jam lasts forever, doesn't it? So even if you don't eat much it is still better than throwing away the pitted cherries...think of all the work you already did to get those pits out.
Dark cherries usually work well for jam.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 10, 2017 21:07:34 GMT 2
you're talking to the converted, Nin.
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