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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Well, I learned something today -- I had no Idea that Chinese lanterns had any other name or were edible.
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Originally Posted by mim
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Well, I learned something today -- I had no Idea that Chinese lanterns had any other name or were edible.
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. |
I have made ground cherry jam before. Google ground cherry jam and see what you get. I got my recipe out of a very old (1936) Ball or Kerr canning book.
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I've seen those but never tried of tasted them. Thanks for showing a new fruit. I'll be on the look out for them.
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When I saw this title, I thought "How do you grind cherries? Don't they all end up in a sticky lump? " Duh. Never knew what those little berries were called. Or that they're edible.
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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 |
Originally Posted by lwbuchhz
(Post 8128241)
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 ~ C |
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