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Cherries

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Quite some time ago I proved (to my satisfaction and for my own personal edification) that the grapes in the shrines were created by covering individual cherry pits with silk fabric and stitching them together to form bunches of grapes for the shrine. These grapes then are used to represent the blood of Christ.

I was thinking about this most of last week because we went to beautiful Door County and picked 22 buckets of cherries. We brought most of them home, and actually pitted and processed 15 buckets of cherries ourselves. There are 5 to 6 quarts in each bucket and in the end I had 104 assorted size jars of canned stuff and a full assortment of frozen pies, breads and other goodies. I also had a two quart jar full of cherry pits.

I made 5 lovely jars of juice. Juice is hard to do because you have to send it through several strainers and eventually through cloth to get all of the sediment out of it. Then I put it on the stove tcherrieso get it to a  nice warm temperature, strain it through cloth one last time and then give it a hot water bath to seal it up nice and proper. And when the juice is bottled it is the most lovely clear ruby color! Pure cherry juice is, well, almost the exact same color of fresh blood. And as far as the shrines go I think the size of a cherry pit, as it correlates to a grape in relation to the flowers and other items around it, is just about perfect.

Well done medieval ladies, well done!