Dehydrated Cherries

1 quart and 1 pint of dried cherries
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard
Recipe: drained pitted cherries in colander before spreading on trays (got a good-sized bottle of yummy cherry juice for the fridge, too)
Notes: next time use screens on dehydrator trays, as they dried the cherries drooped and wrapped themselves around the slats

Spirited Cherries

7 half-pints of spirited cherries
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard
Recipe: Spirited Cherries, p. 155, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006
Notes: used approx. 7-1/2 c of pitted cherries, had about 1.5 pints of juice/syrup leftover

Steffen's Cherry Orchard

This morning we did U-pick cherries. We picked four 5-quart buckets with roughly half and half of Montmorency and Balaton varieties. I packed up two five-pound bags for the freezer which will become tart cherry pie filling, three cups in the freezer to make Summer Solstice Preserves when we get more Tree Ripe Blueberries, six dehydrator trays for dried cherries, and a batch of Spirited Cherries. Of course, there were some for snacking, too.Yum!

ETA: picked one more bucket on 7/15/13 for frozen cherries.

Dehydrated Blueberries

almost 5 pints of dried blueberries
Source: Tree Ripe Citrus
Recipe: Prick with toothpick and dehydrate at 135°F

Blueberry Butter

5 half-pints of blueberry butter
Source: Source: Tree Ripe Citrus
Recipe: Blueberry Bonanza, p. 60, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006
Notes: 2 half-pints left from 2011; used three Tattler lids and two regular lids; two Tattler lids did not seal. When I reviewed the Tattler box, it recommends fingertip tight before processing and then fully tighten when removing jars from bath.

Frozen Blueberries

3 quarts of frozen blueberries
Source: Tree Ripe Citrus
Recipe: Freeze flat on wax paper lined cookie sheets the package

Blueberry Syrup

3 pints and 1 half-pint of blueberry syrup
Source: Source: Tree Ripe Citrus
Recipe: Blueberry Bonanza, p. 60, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006
Notes:  4 pints left from 2011; Tattler lids; one pint jar did not seal - drip on rim?