Choke Cherry?

[wisconsitom]

All choke cherries are one and the same species-Prunus virginiana-but there are geographical variants.  "Canada red cherry" a well-known landscape cultivar sporting reddish-purple summer foliage-is one such variety.  Said to have showed up in a N. Dakota nursery row.  Not at all sure where the original genetics come from.

All such cherries and other small-fruited trees and shrubs can be called by that most wonderful of New England phrases....pucker brush!

[Jeff]

I took some video of picking enough to make jelly. Tough walking in that bramble with raspberries and wild clematis vines.

[curved-wood]

We do an alcohol that is very very good with choke cherry that is somewat like Porto with an almond flavor. To be really good it has to age 3 years otherwise the taste of the alcohol is too rough. Here is the receipe :
-125 ml of sugar
-250 ml of fruit with the kernel
-500 ml of alcool  40% ( could be vodka, rhum etc )
My father in law used to do some wine. It has a fairly high level of alcohol. Anyway, it was not a winner...more a type of wine for a teenager that just want to get drunk

[Tacotodd]

@curved-wood I was a teenager once  ;D

[Jeff]

No wine here. Im a jelly kind of guy since the great wine explosion of 1981. 

[Jeff]

Can you eat Choke Cherries? - YouTube