Thanks for the idea of adding the cherries later! I prefer pie cherries (kept in the freezer) to canned. Will have to try it! Two comments however: my sister in law (who can break the unbreakable) has broken a number of antique cast iron skillets. She says they get brittle. Another, lest we forget: the roaring twenties were roaring for only a few percent of the population; everybody else was having a hard time. Income inequality was a serious reality, and the Great Depression made everything that much worse.

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