Montmorency cherry
Prunus cerasus · Stone fruit
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Montmorency is the world's most widely grown sour cherry — a bright, clear red round drupe with thin skin, soft yellow flesh and pale, colourless juice, so sharply tart that almost no one eats it from the hand. It is the definitive pie cherry, and the fruit behind most American cherry juice, dried cherries and tart-cherry concentrate.
Picking a good onedrag
Picked palePast it
Full colourBuy itIt's firm enough to keep a week in the fridge, sweet enough to eat by the handful.
ColourFull red, bright and glossy
StemGreen, pliable, firmly attached
FleshFirm and springy, heavy for size
SmellClean, faintly sweet up close
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What you get from one
92%
Edible part
8.2 g · pit and stem out
9 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 5× longer than the counter.
95%+
Humidity
Still air, keep it bagged
Airflow