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ellie1
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how do I stone cherries?

ellie1, 4 August, 2008 at 17:36 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 6
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I love fresh cherries and I'm eating them by the handful at the moment, chewing and spitting out the stone!

But I'm making a cake which needs pitted cherries. How do I do it whilst keeping a whole looking cherry? The picture in the recipe looks perfect - is there a way? If not I'll have to cut chunks around the stone which isn't the same.

Thanks if you can help ?

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Latest activity by ellie1, 5 August, 2008 at 06:29
  • SophieM
    SophieM ·
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    Lakeland sells cherry-pitting gizmos.

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  • Hoobygroovy
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    If you have a garlic press, check to see if it has a cherry pitter too. Quite a few of them do, like this one.

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  • janeyh
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    Waah - i knew as soon as i saw your name on the thread it would be a lakeland rec - gotta love lakeland - a solution to every fruit dilemma

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  • Peaches
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    Well how bizarre. I've just come back from lunch meeting with a group of ex-pat friends (from around the world, not just British) and one of my friends made the most wonderful cherry mojitos last weekend, but vowed she'd never make them again due to the hours spent stoning the cherries! She also had to change her nail polish to red to help cover the stains lol.

    So I bought her a cherry stoner for her birthday and said in the card she MUST make the mojitos again! Preferably on a night when I'm NOT driving ?

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  • Peaches
    Super January 2012
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    Just found this wonderful device which looks the dogs ... http://www.target.com/Leifheit-Cherry-Stoner/dp/B00068S2V0

    But I bought my friend this poor relation (well, not the exact same one, but similar) http://www.amazon.com/Leifheit-Stainless-Steel-Cherry-Pitter/dp/B000A3880G/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1217877810&sr=8-4

    If you love Lakeland, you'd love Bed, Bath and Beyond or Linens and Things over here. Kitchen lovers nightmare with too much choice!

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  • Jerseygirl
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    Better still, Williams Sonoma and Crate & Barrel. I could spend a million dollars in those shops.

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  • ellie1
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    Thanks all. |Gotta love Lakeland ? I could do with a gadget, but was making the cake right then. So after a bit of googling I found a good technique - cut a X in the end of the cherry and gently pop the stone out.

    It worked - mostly. And yes, you do get entirely covered in cherry juice! But I'm very pleased withe cherry and white chocolate loaf that sitting in my kitchen now.

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