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Wild Cherries

rooftop1000

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rooftop1000

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Someone on another thread just mentioned Wild Cherries, I always called them Crab Cherries growing up and currently I have a tree. As a kid I tasted them and they are very bitter or tannic. Since they are ripening right now is there anything that can be done with them food wise?

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The Audubon Society field guide to trees says that they can be made into jelly or wine, but that the fruit is very bitter. Guess it would take a lot of sugar, but it is edible.

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Nope, they're cherries. They're small and tannic but they make an excellent jelly. My ex mother-in-law used to make wild cherry jelly and it was awesome. She also made fig and strawberry jam, wild blackberry jelly and wild muscadine jelly. Now that I think about it, I don't miss my ex wife at all but I kinda miss my mother-in-law... or her cooking anyway. I can't get most of those things where I live now. I used to make a jelly from kudzu flowers as well, it tastes like a grape lollipop.

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