Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🪭🐈🫧🍽️ Wednesday 4 December
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
About 6kg of cherries have now been picked. Probably that much again left on the tree if I was feeling enthusiastic enough to pick them.
Now I need to work out what to do with them - they are cooking cherries (morello), not sweet eating cherries. I’ll probably just pit & freeze them for now and do some baking later.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Try drying them. Pit a trayful and put them on a lined baking tray in a very low oven - 30-50 deg - basically the defrost function if your oven has one - with the fan on. Stir them about every hour or so until they dry to snapping point. Or stop at the shrivelled but still bendy stage and freeze them in a vacuum bag. I’ve heard of people drying them in a microwave but I’ve never done that and don’t know how. Dried cherries are a wonderful snack and really add something to cakes, mince pies etc. I’ve put them in chook stuffing too. Use them anywhere that calls for sultanas or currants or raisins.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve dried cherries before and didn’t really use them. I might do a few to go in the next fruit cake I make - I have a dehydrator, which makes it much easier than the oven method. Although it is currently filled with chicken scraps destined for dog food, I really need to get onto packing that away too.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Ooh. Fruitcake! Giant jar, some sort of booze, citrus peel etc. just sit and forget.