www.cherries.com.au

Cherry Pitters

You will save yourself time when cooking with cherries if you have a cherry pitter. Here are some links to cherry pitters available at Australian online retailers. They range in price from $11.95 to $19.95.

Cherry Marketing Institute (USA)

This site has lots of delicious cherry recipes sorted into categories such as: appetizers, beverages, bread and muffins, main dishes, side dishes, snacks and others! There are traditional favorites such as cherry pie, cherry cheesecake and banana bread with cherries. Enjoy the tangy taste of a cherry smoothie or help your kids put together a Cherry Mallow Cake. Whether you are planning an everyday meal, a casual party or a special celebration, there are recipes for every occasion.

North West Cherries (USA)

Again, this site has lots of different cherry recipes—around fifty at last count! Some of these have photos including cherry lemon cooler, fresh cherry picnic salad, cherry stuffed grilled chicken and breakfast calzone.

National Cherries (USA)

Around 20 typical American recipes are listed on this site including: maraschino cherry and icecream angel food cake, marbled cherry brownies, cherry-cranberry deep dish pie and chocolate cherry cordial yoghurt.

Food Down Under

This site is a huge online recipe database. The search for “cherry” recipes revealed 1914 recipes! Wow! You can find a recipe for almost anything here—including cocktails! You can also search for cherry recipes, by country. The Australian cherry recipes are: Cherry Anzac Biscuits and Cherry Ripe Chocolate Slice. The site also produces the recipe to the number of servings you require—which takes the opportunity for arithmetical error out of the equation.

ABC: Rescue the Cherries—Cherry Recipes Not to Miss (Australia)

This story from NSW includes cherry recipes such as cherry chutney, cherry jam and a cherry champagne cocktail. The cherry chutney looks particularly good!

ABC: Pickled Cherries (Australia)

This recipe, featuring star anise, cinnamon and lemon is described as “a brilliant addition to your Christmas menu”. It certainly sounds worth a try.

Philip Johnson’s Ecco Recipes (Australia)

This recipe for French toast and marscapone with fresh cherries would make a luscious and very decadent breakfast treat.

Roslyn Deakin’s Cherry Cook Book

Cherries can be used in soups, cheese cake, ice- cream, biscuits, scones and with beef, lamb, pork and chicken. This book has 84 pages that will show you the many uses of the cherry. Cost is $8.