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KILLITnGRILLIT



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 6:37 pm    Post subject: Cherries, cherries, cherries...recipe ideas needed Reply with quote
    

Please help as we have found many trees hanging with 3 or possibly 4 types of cherry and they are ready know !!

Please help with recipes etc. (partic. cherry brandy) I have trawlled the net but would prefer your input.........


......Many thanks peeps

gil
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wine-making recipes here

Cherries don't set that well as a jam, so either make runny jam, or add a few redcurrants, or some cooking apple.

Cherry brandy - check out the 'Liqueurs' and 'Things to Do with Wild Fruits' articles in the Articles section, and erikht's 'Dram-Making' article [spirits with fruit, but without sugar added].
You could adapt a recipe that was intended for sloe gin, substituting cherries and brandy.

Are these cultivated cherries, or wild geans you've found ?
Either way, you're lucky you got there before the birds

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I boiled mine with half their weight of sugar and a dash of water, put into sterilised jars while still hot and sealed up. I don't see why it wouldn't keep, although I made black forest gateau with mine straight away. Bit sweet for my taste, but other people enjoyed it.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gil wrote:
Cherries don't set that well as a jam, so either make runny jam, or add a few redcurrants, or some cooking apple.


Yeah, but when the jam's that runny, it sinks into your hot toast and does all sort of unspeakable things with the butter, and then you eat it and.................

/drools

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


gil
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jo S wrote:
Yeah, but when the jam's that runny, it sinks into your hot toast and does all sort of unspeakable things with the butter, and then you eat it and.................

/drools


Then the runny jam and the butter drip through the toast onto the plate; then I lick the plate and end up with jam on my nose and chin, and in my hair.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 10 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's why I have short hair

KILLITnGRILLIT



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gil wrote:
....Are these cultivated cherries, or wild geans you've found ?
Either way, you're lucky you got there before the birds


They are cultivated but forgotten about
I was out stalking and saw some fox spoor that was full of cherry stones and on the way back home I spotted the trees

The wild birds don`t seem to have found them, either that or there are too many and they aren`t making a dent in the amount as there are about 15+ large trees. God bless Lidl for their fruit pickers eh !

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gil wrote:
Cherry brandy - check out the 'Liqueurs' and 'Things to Do with Wild Fruits' articles in the Articles section

I couldn't find those.

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

https://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Home_brewing/Fruit_Liqueurs/

KILLITnGRILLIT



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cheers all especially sean/cab/gil

Just picked the first lot, about 1 gallon of black cherries, the others are either too soft or not ripe, the latter will wait a week or two. I will be making some jam and brandy and with a wee handful some Cherry danish pastries !!

gil
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

an article about Sloe Gin etc, and making jellies with wild fruits

and there's the Basic Guide to Jam-making in the same section of the articles

Erikht's Dram-making article is in the Homebrewing section of Articles

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm going to have a go at cherry syrup (using shop bought cherry juice) for making jalebis (nephews wedding), might work

gil
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There should be some recipes for fruit cordials, either in the Articles, or in the Recipe Database, or if you search the forum in Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing.

I'm sure I put a recipe in this time last year (Aug 09) for a raspberry cordial I made. Syrup would be just a bit thicker / sweeter.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 10 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ta Gil

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