Any Home Bakers Here?

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron!

I wanted to bake a loaf but couldn't find my paper copy. It's handy to have the Index as a back up!

It is!

That one might have been posted during one of the times when we needed to add space to the index. It is getting very big with so many recipe!

 

[jnicholes]

It is best to rest up!

Agreed. Right now I'm on the couch resting and playing my ukulele.

 

[R2elk]

Our apple trees bare fruit their first year (I’m not sure how old the actual tree is) They start under 5’ tall. I don’t let them keep the apples till they are more mature though. Plums seem to be the same way. That reminds me, I want a couple plum trees too. Haha.
I’m sure the variety of tree makes a difference on when they start to produce. I need to start keeping a binder with the types of trees and shrubs I have are. I never remember the names of anything


I’m not sure what kind mine is. I know it’s a zone 4 and I was skeptical that it would make it through the winter. It did good for its first winter considering we still hit -40 this past winter. Lower with windchill. I’ll try to find it’s tag. Maybe I need to go get a second tree....

They claim that I am a zone 5 but the temperatures that I get indicate that I am either a zone 3 or a very cold zone 4. I have a couple of Meteor Cherry trees, a Garfield Plantation Cherry tree, a Carmine Jewel Dwarf Cherry and around 7 Evans Bali Cherry trees. The Carmine Jewel has never froze off but is a tiny thing that has not produced enough cherries to matter.

The Evans Balis has only had one of them freeze back and three of them are producing cherries. The past two years, I got enough cherries from them to make 2 pies and a number of batches of jam. The cherry jam that I make is awesome.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We know have a extra berry patch as BF has a strawberry, raspberry and blueberry then blackberry is wild here

 

[My2butterflies]

They claim that I am a zone 5 but the temperatures that I get indicate that I am either a zone 3 or a very cold zone 4. I have a couple of Meteor Cherry trees, a Garfield Plantation Cherry tree, a Carmine Jewel Dwarf Cherry and around 7 Evans Bali Cherry trees. The Carmine Jewel has never froze off but is a tiny thing that has not produced enough cherries to matter.

The Evans Balis has only had one of them freeze back and three of them are producing cherries. The past two years, I got enough cherries from them to make 2 pies and a number of batches of jam. The cherry jam that I make is awesome.

I bet! I’ve never seen cherry jam for sale anywhere, or heard of anyone making it. Do you add anything in particular to it?

I’m a zone 4 technically, but zone 3 plants do better here.

 

[N F C]

I bet! I’ve never seen cherry jam for sale anywhere, or heard of anyone making it. Do you add anything in particular to it?

I’m a zone 4 technically, but zone 3 plants do better here.

Cherry jam is the bomb! Our grocery stores carry it (probably not as good as homemade though).

 

[R2elk]

I bet! I’ve never seen cherry jam for sale anywhere, or heard of anyone making it. Do you add anything in particular to it?

I’m a zone 4 technically, but zone 3 plants do better here.

I use the Sure-Jell no sugar added with the regular Sure-Jell recipe. I also do not chop up the cherries. I pit them and use them whole. I do make sure to use cane sugar instead of beet sugar. It makes a difference in the final texture. Of course, they have to be tart cherries.

 

[R2elk]

Cherry jam is the bomb! Our grocery stores carry it (probably not as good as homemade though).

My homemade cherry jam is to die for.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have a rainier and one other I can't recall then a antique choke cherry

 

[My2butterflies]

I use the Sure-Jell no sugar added with the regular Sure-Jell recipe. I also do not chop up the cherries. I pit them and use them whole. I do make sure to use cane sugar instead of beet sugar. It makes a difference in the final texture. Of course, they have to be tart cherries.

Thank you for the tips! I’ll have to give cherry jam a try at some point.