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in #gardening5 years ago

So the other day i spend a good portion of the day picking cherries as one of the women i work for with yard work has 3 cherry trees in her yard but she doesn't do anything with them. Gonna make them in jam and syrup and make a couple jars of halved cherries to save for in christmas baking.

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Here we got the bowl and two baskets i picked.

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the sorting process sucked, took up most my floor.

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Got one basket of bad cherries about half full in the end for compost

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Got two full stainless steel bowls of cherries to boil up for the juices to make the jam and syrup. ill have a more detailed post showing the boiling, and the recipe for both the jam and the syrup and preserving some jars of halved cherries for baking later down the road.

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Look amazing. Any idea what kind of cherries these are? They are as red as the maraschino cherries.

their called evans cherries, their bigger then nankings, but smaller then large sweet cherries from the orchids,,, and their fairly sour until you put some sugar with them lol

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