Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 > Hello, > > I have a whole bunch of cherries from our tree that need to have something done with them, besides just eating fresh, drying, freezing. rebekah what about cherry juice? mercola sells it through his site and says it's very healthy (antioxidant, if i recall). also, do you have a dehydrator? what about pureeing them and making fruit leather? vera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks for the suggestions. We don't drink juice around here for health reasons. The fruit leathers sound interesting. So you just grind up fruit and paste it onto dehydrator tray? Do you add stuff too? Rebekah Re: NT jam rebekah what about cherry juice? mercola sells it through his site and says it's very healthy (antioxidant, if i recall). also, do you have a dehydrator? what about pureeing them and making fruit leather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 >There is a berry preserves recipe in NT. Has anyone tried this recipe? I am making the chutney recipe, but was hoping also to make a spreadable jam too. Does anyone have much experience fermenting whole fruits into things like jams or spreads? I can't find much info out there, and I need to quickly before my cherries get moldy. > >Rebekah Depends on the cherries, but the ones I've had are so sweet they don't really need anything. Just pit and boil them and can them. I have mixed luck with " spreadable jam " though ... pectin is really tempermental stuff. My Mom made " cherry preserves " which were mainly boiled-down cherries, and they *sort of* spread. If you ran the cherries through a food mill, so you got " cherry mush " then boiled it til it was thick, it would be sweet and spreadable. Or add some honey. Like I said though, I don't worry about *bits* of sugar. How much jam do you really put on a piece of bread anyway? -- Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 From: Rebekah and <<I have a whole bunch of cherries from our tree that need to have something done with them, besides just eating fresh, drying, freezing. I know that usual jam recipes are not really healthy because of the sugar and other stuff in them, but wasn't there a time long ago when jam was a healthy condiment? It seems like it works that way with every junky food. Was there a way a long time ago that jam was maybe fermented? How about making your own Cherry ?... also look into Persian/Iranian cuisine... cherries are commonly used in many forms. Dedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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