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BAC

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Jan 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/11/99
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Hi
I am looking for a fairly high volume cherry pitter cut down on my
canning time. I have been making Cherry Pie Cherries jam for about 5 years
and I am a little tired of hand pitting. I also have found a great way to
improve on Cherry Jam. If you put in about 1 teaspoon of vanilla just before
you pour it into the jars you end up with at jam that tastes like Cherry Pie
Ala Mode.
I am also considering a food mill. I have seen some that claim to
process apples and spit the seeds and skin out. Has anyone used one like
this or can recommend.
Thanks in advance.

Bruce
broken...@connectcorp.net


P Haine

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Jan 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/12/99
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After I chopped off the end of my finger trying to clear a commercial
cherry pitter (ouch!), a friend bought us an antique cast-iron cherry
pitter給the kind with a sort of funnel and wheel. It's fabulous. It
gets about 95% of the pits out, and the rest float to the top of the
preserving pan while the mixture is boiling, and are easy to skim off.
I don't know if anyone's still making these babies, but I seem them
frequently in antique shops.

Cheers!
Peg

Alex S Margita

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Jan 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/12/99
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I think I know a place that has one of these. If anyone is interested,
I can check on it.

Al

Chndlrs

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Jan 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/12/99
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> I am looking for a fairly high volume cherry pitter cut down on my
>canning time. I have been making Cherry Pie Cherries jam for about 5 years
>and I am a little tired of hand pitting. I also have found a great way to
>improve on Cherry Jam. If you put in about 1 teaspoon of vanilla just before
>you pour it into the jars you end up with at jam that tastes like Cherry Pie
>Ala Mode.

After my husband hand-pitted 80 lbs of cherries last spring I saw a machine
pitter in the local kitchen shop for about $10. I was suspicious that it was
priced too low (get what you pay for) and would also appreciate input as to
what to look for in a machine pitter.

I put almond extract in my cherry jam. Yum.

> I am also considering a food mill. I have seen some that claim to
>process apples and spit the seeds and skin out. Has anyone used one like
>this or can recommend.

My sister has one like this (brand unknown, probably not expensive) that does
indeed spit the seeds and skin out -- but tha apples have to be cooked.

I adore my apple peeler/corer/slicer. I burned through a cheap one in a month.
Replaced it with one from a store that stands behind their goods and that has
repacable parts. I would recommend avoiding ones that cannot have the bolts
and blades replaced.

-- Suzanne

>Thanks in advance.
>


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Naomi Ann Counides

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Jan 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/12/99
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Now I like to add a hit of almond extract to the cherries.
Naomi

BAC wrote:

> Hi


> I am looking for a fairly high volume cherry pitter cut down on my
> canning time. I have been making Cherry Pie Cherries jam for about 5 years
> and I am a little tired of hand pitting. I also have found a great way to
> improve on Cherry Jam. If you put in about 1 teaspoon of vanilla just before
> you pour it into the jars you end up with at jam that tastes like Cherry Pie
> Ala Mode.

> I am also considering a food mill. I have seen some that claim to
> process apples and spit the seeds and skin out. Has anyone used one like
> this or can recommend.

rjwhite

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Jan 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/12/99
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:18:43 -0500, er...@nospam.getcomputing.com (Eric
Decker) wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:03:21 -0800, "BAC" <broken...@connectcorp.net> wrote:
>
>
>>>canning time. I have been making Cherry Pie Cherries jam for about 5 years
>>>and I am a little tired of hand pitting. I also have found a great way to
>

>Why not treat them as plums and boil the flesh off the pits?

Eric, can you really do that?

I am going to have cherries on my trees for the first time this year
and this sounds like it would be easier than cherry pitting.

Don Wiss

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Jan 13, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/13/99
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, "BAC" <broken...@connectcorp.net> wrote:

> I am looking for a fairly high volume cherry pitter cut down on my
>canning time.

Before buying a cherry pitter a year and a half ago I did some research.
The results of it are here:

http://www.panix.com/~paleodiet/list/stoners.txt

Don (donwiss @ panix com)

Alf Christophersen

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Jan 17, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/17/99
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chn...@aol.comJunkFree (Chndlrs) wrote:

>I adore my apple peeler/corer/slicer. I burned through a cheap one in a month.
> Replaced it with one from a store that stands behind their goods and that has
>repacable parts. I would recommend avoiding ones that cannot have the bolts
>and blades replaced.

My grandmother bought a ironcast peeler/corer/slicer around 1920,
perhaps earlier. It still works. even with the same knife. But the
quality is definitely another than what is to be bought in alumina
today. To weak metal for that use.


Vicky Shaw

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Jan 18, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/18/99
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Oh yes! Please! My SIL had one and her kids managed to break the handle where it could
not be fixed. Figures huh. It was definitely solid and we never did figure out what
they did. My guess is it took a dive.

Vicky

Alex S Margita wrote:

--
" I'm on a strict diet I can only eat food I like."

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