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    What to Do With The Cherry Juice?

    Unbelievable, but it appears there is no recipe on the internet for the juice leftover from the pail of cherries I made pies with. The pail says to use the juice but there's way too much of it, and I've learned it's better to drain the cherries. I must have over two litres of sour cherry juice. All the recipes I found call for using the cherries themselves to make juice. One year I tried making cherry sauce/syrup but had to use so much cornstarch to get it to thicken all the taste was lost. Anybody have an idea for the stuff?

    I got six 8" pies and one 9" out of a 4.5 kg pail. All in the freezer waiting for a cooler day to bake one.

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    Yummy, that sounds so good! Could you maybe freeze some in ice cube trays and add one or two to other juices or even ice tea? You could sweeten it a bit if you find it very sour.
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    Make cherry brandy!! Warm cherry brandy poured over very cold French vanilla ice cream---, of course this has little to no calories.

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    Speaking as a native of the National Cherry Capital and sister to a National Cherry Queen, I feel like I need to participate in this conversation.

    I buy sour cherry juice concentrate and use it everywhere - in smoothies, mixed with soda water or coke, on ice cream, in salad dressings (in place of vinegar), cocktails, and in sauces. I love how cherry mixes so well in both sweet and savory food. One of my favorite dinners is to sautee up a chicken breast or pork chop and make a pan sauce with cherry juice, dried cherries, chicken broth, and shallots.

    Cherry juice is very good for you - I take it as a joint supplement. I even give Thor doggy treats with cherry! Maybe freeze some of the juice up as 'pupsicles' for the dogs when it gets hot!

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    They drink it in Turkey. It's good.

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    Pour it on vanilla ice cream or what ever type you might like!
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    If you want to thicken it, boil and use pectin. Cherry jelly would be teriffic.
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    It's very watery. I think the ice cube idea is what I will do with it. This is no way near a concentrate. I mixed some sugar in a bit of it and drank it and it's starting to ferment. It was fizzy. I read cherry juice is good for arthritis pain and I just hate to waste the stuff but I think for some of those recipes I'll have to buy more cherries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowshoe View Post
    It's very watery. I think the ice cube idea is what I will do with it. This is no way near a concentrate. I mixed some sugar in a bit of it and drank it and it's starting to ferment. It was fizzy. I read cherry juice is good for arthritis pain and I just hate to waste the stuff but I think for some of those recipes I'll have to buy more cherries.
    That's it---cherry wine!!!
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