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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

Hi Doc,

Interesting reading about this.  I used to live in India (quite a while ago) in Shahjahanpur and Bareilly, UP state.  I went to school during spring, summer, and fall in Mussoorie, a hill station south east of you near Dehra Dun, now in Uttarakhand state.  I never had karaunda to my knowledge.  Many of the local fruits of the plains that matured during the summer were not available in the hill areas, other than the standards of mango, banana, papaya, tangerines, the occasional pomegranate and custard apple, imli from MP state that one of my friends would bring with him to school, etc.  I do fondly remember the grapefruit and lemons from trees that my grandmother planted in Shahjahanpur, as well as some Ber fruit which only I and the fruit bats ate, an occasional custard apple,and some delectable shaitoot (mulberry) that we had until some kid fell out of it and broke both arms after which it was cut down...

Anyway, I imagine there has been a lot of development of commercial fruit plantings in north India over the last several decades.

Dan

On 12/30/2010 9:14 PM, Dr.Chiranjit Parmar wrote:

Here in India the commercial confectioners use cherries in some items.  As cherries are not grown much in India, so they use hard unripe but mature fruits of Carissa carandas (http://www.fruitipedia.com/karaunda.htm) which have been cooked in sugar syrup.  They look perfectly like cherries and people who are not familiar with cherries are not able to know.

Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
Mandi  HP  India
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Blog: AROUND THE WORLD FOR FRUITS, FRIENDS AND NEW EXPERIENCES
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>
To: "NAFEX Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 8:12 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] pie cherries

What sort of cherries do you use for pies?

I am making a cherry pie for a party tomorrow.  I'm using canned cherries. I have been looking for affordable canned cherries (hard around here) so I'm "taste testing" some options.  (Hey, I can explore canned fruit from the supermarket, right?)

I have a bottle of cherries from Trader Joe's marked "Morello" (and from Germany.)  I also have some cans just labeled "sour cherries".  The Morello cherries were packed with some sugars, (including glucose!) and are a lovely dark red.  The sour cherries are packed in water and are so pale I'd consider adding food color.  Except that the Morello cherries are sweetened, they taste quite similar.

Anyone know what I'm eating?  Is the color different just because the processing was different, or is the fruit really different?  What makes a good pie cherry, anyway?

Thanks,
Ginda
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