Cherry

Cherries fruits are drupes (stone fruits), best known for their bright red color. Most cherries are sweet, but some varieties have a very sour taste. Cherry trees are closely related to almonds, peaches, plums, apricots, which all belong to the same genus. This page provides basic information on sweet cherry, together with cherry photographs, proverbs, quotes, and recipes.

Basic information on sweet cherry

Scientific name:	Prunus avium
Synonym:	Cerasus avium
English:	Cherry
English:	Wild cherry
English:	Sweet cherry
English:	Gean
Dutch:	Kers
Dutch:	Zoete kers
Spanish:	Cereza
Spanish:	Cerezo
French:	Cerise
German:	Kirsche
German:	Vogel-Kirsche
German:	Süßkirsche
Italian:	Ciliegio
Family:	Rosaceae
Order:	Rosales
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Evergreen or deciduous:	Deciduous
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Proverbs

• A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
• A dead cherry tree will not blossom.
• A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.
• Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
• Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.
• He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks getting the pips in his nose.
• He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
• In the cherry blossom's shade, there's no such thing as a stranger.
• Life is just a bowl of cherries.
• Money buys cherries.
• Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.
• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
• The cherry blossom among flowers, the warrior among men.
• The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
• Without wine, even beautiful cherry blossoms have small attraction.
• Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.
• You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.

Quotes

• If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. (Andy Taylor)
• About the woodlands I will go, to see the cherry hung with snow. (A.E. Housman)
• If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits? (Erma Bombeck)
• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry. (Halle Berry)
• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda)

Recipes

Cherry pickle

Ingredients:
10 cups sweet black cherries with stems and pits, 2 cups water, 1 cup cider vinegar, 1/2 cup brown sugar (firmly packed), 2 Tablespoons pickling salt

Instructions:
Wash the cherries and dry them. Put water, vinegar, brown sugar, and pickling salt in a large stockpot and bring to a boil. Simmer and stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Then pack the cherries in hot, sterilized canning jars. Pour syrup over the cherries, leaving about 1/8-inch headroom. Seal with hot, sterilized lids. Process 10 minutes in a boiling water bath. Now store the cherries 2 to 4 weeks before eating. Serve as condiment for meat, poultry, and wild game.

Cherry Juice

Ingredients:
1) Cherry 100 grams
2) Syrup 30 grams
3) Boiled water 200 grams
4) Salt 1 gram or 1/5 teaspoon

Instructions to make the juice:
Clean the cherries. Blend them in the blender with the boiled water 100 grams then pour through a sieve and keep juice in a glass. Pour the cherry from the sieve in another container then add another 100 grams of water then drain juice thru the sieve again. Mix both juice together, add salt and syrup as you like.