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We worked all weekend to put up cherries. First, here’s our recipe. Afterwards, our step-by-step photos and this year’s haul (23 pounds in one picking!) [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:51] Our original recipe is here: Sour Cherry Preserves. A few numbers for you: 3 1/2 […]
A sour cherry preserves recipe by Kevin West, from his book, Saving the Season. We tried to follow it for our first sour cherry harvest, but alas, ended up winging it a bit. Find our post here: Sour Cherries in […]
The first harvest from our backyard trees yielded six pounds. Instead of our regular Sour Cherry Preserves recipe, we decided to try one from Kevin West’s book Saving the Season. What we like about the recipe is that because it […]
Our tree in the front yielded 20 quarts — 20 quarts! — of sour cherries. With only two days to put them up into sour cherry preserves, we had to work quickly. We picked and pitted on Saturday night and […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
