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| [Only registered users see links. ] wrote: (most snipped) While on this topic of invention, and since I am canning alot of organic fruit, let me tell you of my conclusions on Chokecherry. If you ever tried to process chokecherry you instantly know the trouble with it. The fruit pulp or flesh is very tiny and it has a seed. The seed, I am told has cyanide so I want to avoid seeds and especially avoid them in the canning of chokecherry. So for years now I have tried to engineer a means of separating the seed from the flesh of the cherry. And I have failed except for one thing. My teeth. Human mouth and teeth are the only chokecherry workable solution. The juice of chokecherry, which should be renamed as not chokecherry but Wild Cherry. I call them WildCherry. But the juice is a beautiful purple-pinkish color. Almost phosphorescent in color. I am not going so far as to say glow-in-the-dark color but a color that seems unnatural. I do not see this color in nature except when processing WildCherry juice. Processing WildCherry, my recipe: I collect the fruit. Separate out the bad ones and clean by immersing in water which helps to separate out the bad ones. Then I put into a pot and add water and boil. Then I mash the boiled chokecherries. Then I skim-off the juice which I use in my applesauce. My applesauce is a mix of apples and chokecherry juice and a few other berries in season. I cannot say that chokecherry (Wildcherry) juice is great drinking. It is better than lime juice but not as good as orange or cranberry or lemon juice to drink. But Chokecherry juice when mixed with applesauce makes both of them, the apples and the chokecherry a delicious fruit compote. Fruits mixed make great dishes whereas if not mixed are somewhat dull to the taste. The classic example is pears when by themselves are so-so, but when you have pears mixed with cream or half-and-half is a sensation. With the skimmed off juice that leaves the pot with chokecherry seed and pulp remaining. So what I do with this residue is sprinkle with a light coat of sugar and place in the refrigerator overnight. And in the following days I eat this residue. Of course, obviously I have a nearby spittoon bucket where I can spit out the numerous seeds. I hear that some universities and colleges are working to make a variety of chokecherry to solve this problem of a tiny flesh/pulp. But I needed a solution here and now. And my solution is to gain the juice to use with other fruit like applesauce. And then eat the residue using my mouth and teeth as the flesh separation. Who knows, maybe future table etiquette will provide a spittoon next to every seat at the fine dining room table. Archimedes Plutonium [Only registered users see links. ] whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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| chokecherry question; How I come to love chokecherry | Archimedes Plutonium | Botany Forum | 0 | 07-31-2008 08:56 PM |