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Foraging Cherry
Sweet cherries ripen late spring/early summer.
What to do with it
- Eat fresh by the handful
- Bake into pies and clafoutis
- Cook into compote
Ways to keep it
- Cherry jam
- Cherry soda or sour (ferment)
- Cherry vinegar
- Freeze pitted
- Dry
About Cherry
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus. The tree, its flowers, and its wood are all called by the same name, as in "ornamental cherry" or "cherry blossom". Wild cherry can be any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although Prunus avium is often specifically called "wild cherry" in the British Isles.
From Wikipedia.
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