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cherries in honey - now what?

 
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Last year we had a bumper crop of cherries.  A branch broke with some almost-ripe cherries and a friend suggested I stone the cherries, and put them in honey.  Leave on the counter for a couple of weeks, then put them in the fridge.

So I did.

Now what do I do with these excessively sweat, slightly alcoholic cherries and honey juice?  
 
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so this was not to make a cherry mead? It was some way to preserve them?

Usually after we rack the initial ferment into a carboy with an airlock, we bake with the berries/raisins.

We had to many last time and the chickens loved them!
 
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It depends on what you want to use them for. You can let keep letting it ferment outside your fridge, this will make a very nice mead. You can dehydrate the presoaked cherries and use them in cakes and desserts.
The flavored honey can be added to tea, mixed with hot water for a drink, or used as a sweetener for cakes and desserts.

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