Fresh cherries for a homemade pie?!
Answers: Can I just use the fresh cherries in the produce dept (pitted and halved) to make a cherry pie? I've seen both the red ones (bing?) and the yellow/red ones (Queen Anne?) I hate canned pie filling and want to use fresh fruit, I'm just not sure if these are the type of cherries used for baking .
I don't think they would work very well.
Cherry pie is made with tart cherries.
You should be able to get them frozen which would have more vitamins in them that fresh ones.
Bing cherries and Queen Ann cherries are not the ones you want.
you can...about 2 lbs and they should be tart not sweet
the fresh cherries are the way to go
You can use frozen and cook it in the saucepan before adding it in the pie. You can try that. I know alot of my pastry chef friends do it when cherries arent in season
Fresh cherries are graet! Use this recipe for the pie. It's super easy!
Fresh Cherry Pie
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons tapioca
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 cups pitted tart cherries
2 pie crusts
Directions
Combine first 3 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring until cherries are coated. Spoon into pie shell and top with pie crust. Fold edges under and flute, cut slits in top of crust. Bake at 375 for 55-60 minutes.
Enjoy!
fresh, canned, or frozen cherries will all work; they all taste the same after the pie is baked, unless they were in the freezer and got freezer burned :o)
The bing and Queen Anne cherries are both considered sweet cherries. Normally, a pie is made with sour or tart cherries like Monmoracy or other types. A lot of grocers carry frozen tart cherries that you can then use in pie.
I get a 10 # can every July from a local farmer's market when they're fresh picked. I miss the sweet and tart cherry trees we had in the back yard when I was a kid...but I still have my cherry pitter (looks like an opened up bobby pin!).
the fresh cherries that are typically used for pies are sour cherries. they're currently out of season.....available june -august. try using the Queen Anne (i think bing might be too sweet) and adding lemon juice to your filling for tartness
good luck.