6 Sour cherry Recipes From 5 Cuisines.

The cooking cherry, too sharp to eat raw in quantity and exactly right once sugar and heat are involved. It fills Hungarian cold cherry soup, Balkan strudels and pies, German Schwarzwald cake and Persian rice dishes where the tartness cuts through rich lamb. Sweet dessert cherries cannot substitute; the whole point is the acid. The season is brutally short, so most cooks work from frozen or jarred fruit for the rest of the year.

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