Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: bigcountry on May 30, 2010, 08:57:24 pm
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Figured you primitive savvy types might know this. Are all cherrys from cherry trees ok to eat? I have a few cherrys trees in my yard. Cherrys are nice and red.
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post a pic of the fruit/leaves/tree
it'll help them i.d. it properly
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Yep, some just better than others. You might not like Choke Cherries or Black Cherries. They tend to be a little bitter. :)
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i love choke cherries
they make your mouth/teeth, purplish black and fly nice from a wrist rocket too >:D
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Yep I got my butt whipped a few times for shooting cherrys and china berries from a sling shot.
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i had a good friend when i was growing up.they had a HUGE choke cherry tree in their backyard.
across the street was a crotchety old guy,hated every one.he had gone on vacation one summer.
when he left his house was white,but not so white when he got back ::) ;D
me and my buddy spent the next two weeks washing and scrubbing his house,seems someone thought it was us.
OK so his wrist rocket and out hands were a little purple,but that still seems a little circumstantial to me :)
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Ok, here are some pics. They are sweet, not that bitter. I know its not black cherry. It has a pit and all.
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn73/bigcountry_ky/Misc/cherry2.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn73/bigcountry_ky/Misc/cherry1.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn73/bigcountry_ky/Misc/cherry3.jpg)
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kinda looks like the ones they make those fancy red marichino cherries for drinks out of
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kinda looks like the ones they make those fancy red marichino cherries for drinks out of
Thats me, fancy. I have had these 3 trees in my yard for 11 years and this year is the first time good cherrys came on it. Or the first time I bothered to try.
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actually after loking at the pic again
i think those are the same ones i buy in the grocery store in the summer
thems good eats there,i love me some good cherries
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actually after loking at the pic again
i think those are the same ones i buy in the grocery store in the summer
thems good eats there,i love me some good cherries
ate a big ole handful tonight, we will see if they kill me or not.
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almost looks like a rainier cherry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_cherry
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i do believe bigcountry hit it right there
rainier cherries ;) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
put a handfull in the blender and throw them in a coke
the best cherry coke ya can get,better than the can stuff
old school :)
man im getting old
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those are one of my favorite cherries there...You lucky dog
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Like said , cherries are edible. Pits contain cyanide so don't eat pits on smaller varieties like choke and pin. Once pit is dried it is edible and has a great almond flavor. I dry the whole fruit after smashin a bit and then smash again when all is dry. Great trail food.
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Hey Big we have pin and a fire cherry here in Fla. Yours look good. The ones down here will mess you up first hand experience.
can't remember for sure if I ate the pit but I had acid reflux for about a week after just a small sample. I wish we had
the climate for good cherries here in central FLA.. It is black berry season though and they sure are tasty.
J.B.
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I grow a barbados cherry here in Fla.it Don't know if it's a true cherry or not but they are good .They produce a few times a year and taste alot better than those serniam cherries.
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Looks like a ranier to me too. Nice sweet cherry and the worms taste just as good as the rest of it. ' Frank
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Well, that stinks. After picking only a few quarts, they left as fast as they came. Looking back at the previous years, same thing. You have big ole red cherries for end of may and beginning of June, and end of june they are gone all dried, swiveled up.
Is that normal for cherry trees?
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If they don't produce every year, you might get more fruit with another type of cherry as a pollinator tree. Plenty of info on the web about what types are compatible.
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looks like the cherries my sister has in her yard up in Oregon. here in Illinois we have sour cherries and I make a beer from them called cherries in the snow ale. best ale you can make in my book.
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The first peoples in the Dakotas regularly used the chokecherry pits and all in their diets. The Sioux particularly made sundried chokecherry patties from whole fruit that had been pounded in a stone mortars. I've eaten these patties and aside from the rather gritty texture (imagine chewing tough coffee grounds) they caused no side effects.
*urp*