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| Montmorency Cherries. 6.26.16 |
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| Wild Bird-Planted Cherries. 6.26.16 |
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| Cherry Pie Filling Ingredients. 6.26.16 |
This is my first crop of Montmorency pie cherries. We also have a massive, bird-planted cherry tree that bears small red/yellow cherries. All went into two pies. The first pie was last week, and was all from the wild bird-planted cherry tree. The montmorency cherries were too small for cherry pitter, so I pitted them by hand. There were enough for 1/2 of the pie filling, so the 2nd pie also got wild cherries. These pies were the most cherry-tasting pies I've had in many, many years. These cherries have clear juice - the filling will not be red without coloring, and I don't need chemical-red to taste cherry. It was so good.
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| Cherry Pie. 6.26.16 |
The pie filling is 4 cups of pitted cherries, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, pinch of salt, mix together and let it extract the cherry juice while making the pie crusts. After filling with the cherry filling, I add dabs of butter before covering with the top crust. This pie is baked at 375 F for 50 minutes.
wow, mouth watering cherries. Sadly our cherry season is rather short this yr. Have not have that many in the market either. Even in the store, they are from WA, not CA. Have never attempt a cherry pie. Have not try sesame on top. Hummmm Good.
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