Comments on: The early birds got the cherries

By: Ifi

Ifi — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:08:01 +0000

I just came upon your blog, doing a search “why are my cherries so small”. We bought a house in South-Central PA last year, but we’re still living in NY, so we visit the house on weekends only. Well, last weekend, to our surprise, we realized that one of the trees in the field is a cherry tree!!! And they’re small, so we must have the same type of tree. Ours is also very tall, and I’m sure this weekend when I take the ladder out, I’ll also be looking at the top branches, that I won’t be able to reach.

Well, now that you know that someone else is going through the same as you, hehe, I wanted to ask you, did you pit your cherries before freezing them? Have you eaten any of the ones you froze? That’s my ultimate question, how do I preserve all those tasty cherries! I don’t want to can them with loads of sugar, I want to preserve them in their natural state as long as possible. Do you have any advice?

Sorry for the long comment, I intended to send it as an e-mail, before I realized I could leave a comment

By: Vickie

Vickie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:43:06 +0000

Thanks, Debbie!

By: Vickie

Vickie — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:10:26 +0000

Years ago, I became quite ill from eating “creecy salad” and couldn’t eat it again for many years. My son got sick eating crab and wouldn’t eat them again for a long time, but believe me, he absolutely loves them now, just as much as before he got sick.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:16:50 +0000

You can find bottled cherry juice in the organic juice section at Kroger.

By: Lindsey Nair

Lindsey Nair — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:15:01 +0000

I’ve been thinking of working on a cherry sauce for roasted pork tenderloin. But Howard got a bad stomach bug right after eating pork with a dried fruit stuffing a few years ago and now claims that meat with fruit is unappetizing to him. I swear I did not give him food poisoning.
Has that ever happened to anyone else? I got sick after eating chicken fettuccini Alfredo one time and still don’t eat it. I know I’m off topic.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:40:43 +0000

We’ve used a similary hot cherry sauce to put on roast ham and even glaze it…it’s great.

By: NotFromHere

NotFromHere — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:34:23 +0000

This recipe for cherry sauce is delicious: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/whole_grain_waffles_cherry_sauce.html

We used it on waffles and have been eating it mixed into plain yogurt. Seems to be a good way to use frozen cherries or to ‘preserve’ fresh ones for a week or so.

By: Lindsey Nair

Lindsey Nair — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:59:07 +0000

@Eric, yep, when you make the cobbler you drop the fruit in the batter but then the batter puffs up around it when it bakes. Yummy.
I am happy to hear that Mom’s cobbler recipe is similar or identical to the ones others use.
@Vickie, I’m so happy to hear that you tried one of those freezer pop recipes and liked it. I wondered about how easy it would be to find cherry juice when I transcribed it. I know a lot of juice comes off fresh cherries when you pit them and let them sit for a bit, so that would be a good use for that juice.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:56:22 +0000

That is the way my mom makes cobblers. Which is how my grandmother made them too. I remember when I was a kid watching them make it like your recipe states. But when you take it out of the oven the “crust” would be on top. The only time they ever put a pastry crust on top was when they mad a pie.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:14:38 +0000

Lindsey, your mother’s recipe is the same one that I’ve used since I was 17 years old (a long time ago)! I also like the cobblers with the pastry crust.
Last Friday, I bought some cherries when I went to the city market and my grandson and I made cherry popscicles using the recipe that you shared. He loved them! We couldn’t find cherry juice, so we used cranberry cherry juice instead and agave syrup instead of honey. They still turned out great. Thanks for sharing!