Ground Cherries...what do you do with them?
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Ground Cherries...what do you do with them?
I finally found something that thrives in the back corner of my garden...ground cherries. I had enough to toss into salads and make a couple of jars of jam this year. The plants are growing and spreading like weeds, so I'll have a lot more next year. What do you make with them? Recipes please.
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Have little to no experience with fresh cherries but couldn't you make a cherry salsa? I know peach salsa if very popular. Could you cook them down, sweeten, put them through a food mill or food processor like you would apple sauce? Do they have enough pucker that you could pickle them?
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If you have to many to process at the time they are ripening I would think you could use a Food Vacuum system like a Food Saver & seal them & freeze them until you are ready to use them in a recipe. That's what I did with fresh figs this year & it worked out great.
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I am not sure Chinese lanterns and ground cherries are the same thing. I will have to search them. I grow ground cherries and eat them straight. Tomatillos are another husk tomato and can be used much the same as ground cherries. I have found ground cherries are a little sweeter. Experiment with all kinds and do lots of searches.
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I am not sure Chinese lanterns and ground cherries are the same thing. I will have to search them. I grow ground cherries and eat them straight. Tomatillos are another husk tomato and can be used much the same as ground cherries. I have found ground cherries are a little sweeter. Experiment with all kinds and do lots of searches.
Lynda
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