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 cherry, together with photographs, proverbs, quotes, and recipes.

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Proverbs

• Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

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

Recipe name

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.