Cherries

Cherries are small, round stone fruits with juicy, sweet and sometimes tart flesh. Cherries vary in color from light yellow (Royal Ann) to dark ruby red (Bing). Cherries are eaten as a fresh fruit or cooked and used in fillings for pies, tarts, and sauces.

If you don't have fresh cherries you can substitute:

• You can substitute equal amounts of frozen or canned cherries for fresh in most recipes.
• OR - Use fresh plums
• OR - Fresh apricots
• OR - Fresh nectarines.
• All the above three fruit are stone fruits and work well in cobblers and pies as well as other desserts.

1 lb unpitted cherries = 1 3/4 cups pitted
16 oz canned, pitted = 1 1/2 cups drained
1 lb pitted frozen cherries = 2 cups
2 to 2½ lb. = 1 qt. canned, unpitted
1 pt. = 1 pt. frozen, unpitted
1 cup = 1/3 lb.