Oh my, I've just gone to heaven. Or at least I will when I get a mouthful of this. I even have the berries in the freezer but I'll have to buy more because if I don't bake this when my elder son visits in a few weeks, he'll never speak to me again. He's nuts about forest fruits as the mix is called in the UK. Actually, there are fresh cherries going cheap at the moment, I've not baked much with cherries before, would they stay all nice and pretty? I wouldn't call them pretty, exactly, though they do hold their shape. They're also a LOT less juicy than the forest fruits, though. If you use straight cherries, you could try this crust recipe and technique, but go with a cherry pie filling recipe, like that for our Presidential Cherry Pie, cutting back on the sugar a bit to account for what I assume are your sweet cherries on sale. Or, chop the cherries and use them as part of this Bumbleberry recipe - that would be good, too. Enjoy1 PJH

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