Cherry Processing and Ice Cream

Last year I dropped all the pictures in for this blog and for some reason I never made it back to finish writing up the information.  Summer of 2012 was a good year for cherries.  The strange weather this spring left a shortage of Bing cherries.  The prices were anticipated to be much higher price.  So we didn't buy any bing cherries this year. Last year we bought two cases!


We bought 2 cases (18 pounds each) of Cherries

We washed the cherries bag by bag, took the stems off and prepared them for pitting.  Okay, we probably ate several of them along the way.

Wash the Cherries Good

With bowl side by side, we pitted the cherries.  Our cherry pitter fits four cherries at a time.  A quick slap and the pits fall out of the bottom leaving a small slit in the cherry.

Pit the Cherries

I don't remember what I mixed together for the Ice-Cream batter but it wasn't good.  Fresh it was great but when I put it in the freezer and brought it out later there was a waxiness to it.  The base taste was okay but the wax coating was awful.  I'm glad I don't remember it.

Prepare the Ice Cream ingredients

After churning, the homemade ice cream looked like this (below).  I love homemade ice cream when it is fresh.  But for only the two of us, it makes way too much to eat in one sitting.  Next time I do this, we will need to have friends over!


Home made Cherry Ice Cream