I spent all of yesterday canning 20 pounds of cherries. I didn’t even eat all of the cherries I canned last year yet. We will need to be eating lots of cherries this coming year. My favorite desert is cherry pie, so I’ve been looking for a pie crust recipe that doesn’t involve wheat or rice flour, but so far am not liking what I see. Almond flour is the obvious choice, but the crusts I’m seeing are not what I’m looking for. I’ll gladly take suggestions if you have them.
Since I have several jars of cherries in light syrup from last year I went ahead and did heavy syrup this year as well as some spiced and pickled versions. I found a recipe for pickled sweet cherries on the blog Love & Olive Oil. They looked and sounded good and I found a lot of uses for them in cooking when I did a quick search. I only made seven little jars, so hopefully I don’t love-love them or I will be sad when they are gone.
I loved the little tags that were made for the jars on Love & Olive Oil so I created some of my own that were similar, making myself cherries with a leaf and a dotted border. I made them 1 3/4” in diameter and then used my 2” circle punch to punch them out. I also printed some on a big 8 1/2” x 11” label and stuck those on the lids of a few. The pretty tagged one’s will be for gifting and I’ll keep the sticker ones for myself. Of course my favorite part of it all was making the cute tags and photographing them all. Even if they taste horrible, I still had fun.
These are beautiful! I can't wait to start experimenting with canning on my own.
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How cute are those!! We love cherries,but the canning process always scares me:) Maybe the farmers market in town has some for sale;)
ReplyDeleteTry Celiac Teen's site. I can't remember if she uses rice flour or not, but it is a beautiful crust. I've worked with it and eaten it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you tried the 'perfect flour blend' by Namaste, but I love the way it bakes and its glueten free. It may have some rice flour though. Can't remember.
ReplyDeleteWow do these cherries ever look yummy! My great grandma used to can cherries from her cherry tree when I was a little girl and I always wanted to try this myself...thanks for sharing! I look forward to trying to make these myself now! :o)
ReplyDeleteI would look for a cornmeal/cornflour recipe. We use one at work that's half regular flour & half cornflour, but there must be some out there that blend with something else. The corn would be delicious with cherry.....
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to can anything this summer - yet! And I think my Mom has a wheat free pie crust recipe she found, I'll have to ask and see what she says.
ReplyDeleteWe canned every summer when I was a kid. Cherries, raspberries, peaches, pears, plums, applesauce, jams. We would freeze strawberries too. The girls inside working, while my brother and cousin stayed outside all day and played
ReplyDeleteI would invest in a bush-pie maker. That way you can make cherry-pies to order using your favourite gluten-free bread. It does require a campfire, or fire pit but they're always tasty, especially using cinnamon raisin bread.
ReplyDeletemy uncle makes pies for my gf aunt using gf sugar cookie dough for the crusts. they turn out pretty tasty
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. I would love to can & make a fresh cherry pie. Good luck finding the right pie crust recipe! Visiting from DearCreatives.com
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