Cherry ripe...

I have many faults, and if you asked him to pick one, Jeff would be hard put to confine himself to just one. However, nearly at the top of his list is the fact that although I bake (a lot), I do not bake pies. Specifically, fruit pies. And even more specifically, cherry pies - his favourite.



Hopefully this will go some way to addressing that! Enough pie filling for nine or ten cherry pies, for the equivalent cost of about two-and-a-half store-bought pies.

I cannot help feeling, though, that it is a shame that fruit comes into season in the summer when it is hotter than Hades in my kitchen and my water bath canner took a full two hours to reach a rolling boil. Cherry ice cream sounds so much better right now!