cherry pickers

[cherrysmum]

Yep...Pez and I picked 3 1/2 gallons of cherries...black, queen anne, and reds....we made soooo much jam..yum! We were quite a sight way up on ladders in the trees..blueberries next week...then the raspberries and blackberries...what a good summer this will be.

[Cherry_pez]

Mike LOVES the jam. He actually pulled out some stale biscuits I was going to feed to my chickens and heated them so he could test out the jam. Chloe had her jam with whipped creme.

[ellanoize]

That all sounds soo delish...My mother usted to make a three level Blackberry cobbler. It was my favorite, When it was hot, I would add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or if it was cold I would add a bit of ice cold milk...MMMm what a memory

[cherrysmum]

no cherry trees in your neck of the woods Suz???I thought black forest cake originated in Germany. Head to the woods...pick...pick freeeeee

rog would love that recipe..drool

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[Forbidden Passions]

oooooooooooooh*licks lips*L
I love cherries, they are just too expensive to buy!!!!

[Cherry_pez]

Ilove cobbler....I hope to get a lot of blackberries this summer.

[ellanoize]

Unfortunately, before my mother died, I asked her for several recipes and was told she didn't know the recipes, she just added what was needed until it was done.

For her cobler I know she would add to a tall pan, sweetened blackberries, add a pastry dough, and bake it til brown, add more berries and dough, bake til brown, then repeat and added sugar & butter to the top and baked it again. I am drooling...She did this to all her cobblers: Cherry, Peach, Gooseberry, blackberry.

So many of her recipes I have tried to recreate and just can't quite get it, like her potato dumplings, stew meat hash, giblet gravey...

[cherrysmum]

I've been in a cooking mode for several weeks now..baking bread is a really fun thing for me..and it is good for my arthritic fingers to knead the bread LOL....