'Tis the season! For cherries! Stephen and Zac left early Tuesday morning to pick, and in just about 2 hours picked 88 pounds between the two of them. Stephen told me that Zac was a little picking machine! He did great, and was so proud of himself when he told me about his adventures. It was sort of funny, both Stephen and I thought to ourselves that he should bring a checkbook, but discounted the thought since they took cards last year. Ha, well, joke's on us because while they still take card, it was at the farmer's market with their booth, so check was required. Stephen came home & picked up the girls and I(and the checkbook) and we went back and washed and pitted our cherries. It was an easy task, because both my husband and son are quite organized and tidy, so there weren't any leaves or stems to pull out of our bucket. Seriously. Other families were sorting their leaves from their cherries, and I was just dunking whole buckets of cherries in cold water. My family rocks.
Here are some pictures of the events that took place after we got home (since I was forgetful and did not bring the camera to the cherry orchard).
Cherries in a pot...these will be a pie tonight, as a treat to those hard pickin' men!
Cherries in the dehydrator. Aren't they pretty? They'll be even prettier in oatmeal, trail mix and my tummy.
Cherry pie flavored syrup. WHAT?!? You ask? Well, see, last year when we picked cherries we had all this juice left over and didn't know what to do with it. So, we thickened it, sweetened it, and added almond extract and used it as a syrup. It was a hit! So much so, that it was requested that we make much more this year. So I did. 35 pints. Stephen even bought me a new stock pot so that I could be efficient and make it all at once, but we forgot one thing....which leads me to this photo:
Yup. We didn't have a spoon long enough to stir the pot!!! So, Stephen pulled out a large dowel we had on hand, we washed it, and now we have a stirring stick! ha ha. I told him I felt like I was stirring a cauldron. 
3 comments:
Hooray for cherries! We're hoping to go pick some tonight or tomorrow and engage in similar projects.
Those look delish! What kind of cherries are those? They look like my favorite kind - the ones soaked in sugar water that you put on top of milkshakes. :) Good job, Jillian!
i'm so jealous! I wish we could have picked some while we were there. I love cherries! It was so fun to see you.
Liam has a note for Chayce...
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