Do you ever buy – oh I don’t know – a pound of cherries and then leave them at the bottom of the fruit drawer and forget about them? Not that I’ve done that…um. Hmmm.
OK fine, I did that. But then along came this amazing recipe from The Cilantropist for Sweet Cherry Preserves. My cherries were saved!
A few days ago I asked on Twitter who had any ideas for pitting cherries without a cherry pitter and got some cool answers, but there’s one that I used and it worked like a charm. Teri said to take a straw and push the pit out of the cherry…perfect!
I will say that a cherry pitter is probably more consistent, but on the fly the straw method is awesome and a lot faster than using a knife!
Moral of the story: you need to make this. STAT.
Oh, and happy Sunday 🙂
Wow. Love this jam! I love anything with cherries.
The rounded end of bobby pin works really well for pitting cherries. My parents have 2 sour cherry trees and 1 sweet cherry tree, so I have lots of experience pitting cherries!
Wow I am so impressed that you pitted a pound of cherries with a straw!!! Now that is what I call being resourceful! 😉 Glad you loved the recipe, I am actually hoping to make another batch this week!
I wish I would have had this recipe 2 days ago!! I just threw out a partial bag of cherries that sat too long! Darn! I am for sure doing this next time.
I’m not a fan of cherries themselves but love the flavor, this sounds so wonderful! That bread looks wonderful too! 🙂
I just made cherry jam, too and LOVED it. It’s excellent in baking, ESPEcially breakfast oat bars.
Yummy 🙂 Our local cherries aren’t ready till August and I love making cherry preserves with them 😀 Your preserves look beautiful.
I love cherry preserves! They’re my favorite 🙂
I’ve yet to even buy cherries this season. What is wrong with me!?