At the top of our back hill is the cherry tree belonging to our backyard neighbors. I don't know if Bill and Cheryl planted the tree, or if it was already there when they moved in. Bill likes cherries. Cheryl does not.
They told us that we could come to pick cherries whenever we wanted.
Jenna's Easter bucket holds exactly 18 cups of cherries - though we hadn't figured that out until later. I did not get any pictures of Jenna and Roland picking them.
I hadn't considered posting about this at the time.
Roland wanted to make a pie, and thus we cut or pulled cherries apart in order to get the pits out. And Roland started on the filling (I personally would have waited until the following morning as it was quite late at night when he started) but put the filling in a container to put in the fridge and work on the pie the next day.
The next day Roland decided that we needed an actual cheery picker and we made our purchase and picked more cherries and he made filling for another pie.
He poured his new filling into a pie shell and suggested that we just freeze the pie filling in the fridge. I would have rather frozen the new creation as I had used an overly large container for the first but did not wish to transfer . . . and since we had to pour out the hot mixture anyway . . . but I talked him into making two pies.
He put the hot pie filling into a new glass plate that we had purchased. It almost looked lost compared to the other which was in a smaller tin and looked like pink jelly compared to the rich whole cherries. We latticed the hot batch and covered the other. The hot batch leaked in the oven, not because it was latticed. I figured out that the hot had been overheated which is why it boiled over.
We had intended to give the other away, but part of the crust burned. Perhaps it's only my imagination, but the one we baked using the cold feeling tastes better to me than the first.
We gave approximately eight cups to our neighbors who have let us pick apples and we put the remainder in the freezer. Each bag is filled with three cups and we will need two bags for each pie. Currently, we have enough cherries for four pies.
