Cherry Recipes

Cooking with tart cherries is a lot of fun and we have a great collection of recipes here.

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A couple of our favorite dried cherry recipes
Check out the Double Cherry Pie

Here is our favorite local cherry pie recipe:

Mother's Cherry Pie

4 cups tart cherries 1 cup sugar Dash salt 3 tbsp. Corn starch 3/4 cup cherry juice

1/4 tsp. Lemon or almond extract 1/4 tsp. Red food coloring 2 tbsp. Butter Crust for two crust pie

Directions:

• Mix 1/4 cup sugar, salt and corn starch
• Add 1/4 cup cherry juice to make a paste
• In a saucepan, mix 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup cherry juice and bring to a boil. While boiling, slowly add corn starch mixture.
• Stir constantly, and cook until thick and clear
• Fold in the cherries and add lemon or almond extract, food coloring and butter.
• Pour into pie crust, cover with top crust and bake at 375 degrees for one hour.

Cherry Cobbler

Cherry mixture: 3 cups tart cherries 2/3 cup sugar 1 cup cherry juice (or water) 1 tbsp tapioca (or cornstarch) 1/2 tbsp butter 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Dough: 1 3/4 cup flour 2 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 1/4 tsp salt 1 tbsp sugar 1/4 cup butter 3/4 cup milk or cream

Directions:

Filling:

• Thicken fruit mixture by combining sugar and tapioca in saucepan.
• Sit in cherries, juice and cinnamon.
• Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened and bubbly.

  Dough:
  

• Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together
• Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly
• Add milk, stir lightly

• Pour hot cherry mixture into a buttered 6 cup shallow baking dish or pan.
• Dot with butter.
• Spoon dough over hot cherries in evenly spaced mounds.
  Sprinkle top with trace of sugar.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until top is brown.

Serve with heavy cream or yogurt.

Michigan Baked Oatmeal

2 cups old-fashioned oats 4 cups milk 1/4 tsp almond flavoring 1/2 cup dried tart cherries

1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup sliced almonds 1 large apple, unpeeled, grated or chopped

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Coat 3 quart casserole or baking pan with cooking spray.
• In mixing bowl, combine all ingredients.
• Fold into baking dish.
• Bake uncovered for 45 minutes. Serve hot.