Wayne wrote:

> zxcvbob > wrote in :
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>>I'm baking a huge cherry pie. Daughter picked a bunch of cherries
>>yesterday and pitted them. I picked a few more today and added them to
>>it so I'd have enough to use my biggest pie pan.
>>
>>Gotta run, the timer's beeping...
>>
>>Bob
>>
>
>
> I'd give damned near anything for a bunch of fresh sour cherries or
> gooseberries or red or black currants. Nothing like that seems to be
> availble in Central AZ. The canned cherries and gooseberries run ~$3 per
> can and a decent pie requires at least 3 cans. The quality of the canned
> fruit isn't worth the time spent making a good pastry. Years ago I used to
> be to at least able to find frozen sour cherries and they were pretty good.
> Haven't seen them for sale in years.
>


Can you grow blackberries there if you use drip irrigation? There's a
variety called "Youngberry" that is especially good and kind of sour.

One of these days I'm gonna try making a pie with diced dried apricots
reconstituted in roselle juice (an inky-red sour hibiscus). I know you
can buy dried roselle in the Latin markets there. Look at the
black-and-white picture halfway down this page:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/roselle.html

Bob


Bob