I love cherries. I love everything vaguely cherry flavoured. Cherry flavoured slush puppies, cherry brandy ice lollies, cherry jam, cherry coke (and Dr Pepper), cocktail cherries, even the bright red full of bad chemicals maraschino cocktail cherries which I can eat straight from the jar.

So right now, in the middle of cherry season, I am in heaven. I’ve been buying about 2 kilos of cherries a week!

Mostly eating them just as they come and they really don’t last all that long. I’ve made a batch of cocktail cherries and a batch of cherry brandy and I decided this week would be the week of the cherry pie.

I had pastry in the freezer, (this one, although I use the ‘bung it all in food processor’ method to make it) which I use for mince pies at Christmas and should give you an idea of how long it’s been in the freezer and I had this recipe for the filling, I used less sugar than suggested (1/2 a cup) and the result was very tasty but not too pretty.

It tasted great though!