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Rainer Sweet Cherry

Not all cherries are created cherry red. Ranier is a yellow and red skinned cherry that it is one of the sweetest cherries you will ever taste.

There are two cherry varieties with patially yellow or golden skins: Rainer and Royal Ann. Royal Ann--sometimes called Napoleon--is golden yellow blushed with red. Rainer is a bit more eye-popping, bi-colored bright yellow and cherry-red skinned.

Both Rainer and Royal Ann are sweet cherries, the type of cherries you can eat without cooking. Sweet cherries can be be added raw to fruits salads, ice cream sundaes, yogurts, sorbets, and custards, or cooked in compotes, tarts, pies, flans, soufflés, and clafoutis.

Rainer is unlikely to make it from the farm stand to the kitchen. This is a sweet cherry you will enjoy eating out of hand. You can use a paring knife to slit the Rainer from north to south then pull it apart, popping out the pit. The fastest way to enjoy the Raineer is to simply let your teeth and tongue do the work.

Rainer is a hybrid between the Bing and Van cherries, two of the sweetest sweet cherries out there. Rainer is sweeter than Bing, though considered a bit more fragile. Rainer has a creamy, yellow flesh that fades to a nearly white heart. Rainer is juicy and its sweetness is on the mild side.

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Sour Cherry Varieties

Sour cherries are great for cooking. They are richly flavored and firm of flesh so that they don’t go mushy during cooking. Use sour cherries for pies, cobblers, clafoutis, dessert sauces, preserves, and jams.

There are of two types of sour cherries: amarelle-type cherries are yellow fleshed with clear juice; morello-type cherries are red fleshed with red juice.

Fresh sour cherries—there are more than 300 varieties--come to market from mid-June through mid-August.

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Cherries

Cherry season is short and sweet.

Well, sweet cherry season is short and sweet, and sour cherry season is short and tart.

Put the two seasons together and you can enjoy about four months of fresh cherries each year: sweet cherries for eating out of hand and using in fruits salads, compotes, custards, sorbets, ice cream, and yogurt; sour cherries for pies, cobblers, clafoutis, dessert sauces, preserves, and jams.

Fresh sweet cherries are at your farm market from May through early July and fresh sour cherries from mid-June through mid-August. The peak season for cherries in the Southern Hemisphere is during December.

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