Cherries
The primary to reach on the summer time stone fruit scene, cherries can be found all through the summer time in a wide range of colours and flavors. Candy cherries, similar to Bing, Lapins, or Rainier, are excellent for having fun with uncooked, preserving, or baking into pies and tarts. Bitter cherries, similar to Montmorency, are greatest cooked and are widespread in pies, cocktails, and crisps, the place sugar might be added to tame their tartness.
At first look, the addition of citrus could appear uncommon, however the added lemon or lime within the crust pairs superbly with the almond and contemporary cherry flavors.
For some folks—er, me—apple pie is a favourite. For others, it’s unquestionably cherry that rocks their world. I get requested each weekend on the Pitchfork Pie Stand if I’ve cherry pie. My response is a fast one: “Who’s going to pit all these cherries?!” However cherry pie is bred deeply within the American DNA, and for that, and its vivid and cheery look, there’s a place for it when providing presents of therapeutic to others.
There’s nothing higher than a contemporary cherry pie for launching the summer time fruit pie season. This recipe was a wonderful kick-off! I introduced house about two kilos of cherries and the filling set superbly because the pie cooled. Oh and the crust—stunning, stunning, stunning!
Chiyo
Pickled cherries are a fast, straightforward, sudden technique to lengthen cherry season. Tartly candy, subtly spiced, and surprisingly onerous to cease consuming, these little gems ably lengthen summer time.
That is the sixth time I’ve made this pickled cherries recipe. It by no means disappoints!
Ilda C.
Apricots
Recent apricots are in season in North America from Might by means of July, though the dried selection is a well-liked snack year-round. Whereas a wonderful addition to pies, tarts, and crumbles, the sweet-tart taste of those fruits additionally lends itself to cocktails, like this apricot daiquiri, and pairs effectively in savory dishes like roasted pork tenderloin with chanterelles.
This apricot tart is stuffed with contemporary apricots which are sitting on a buttery frangipane, or almond cream, all nestled in a crumbly candy tart shell. On high are chopped pistachios, for the wow issue.
This no pectin apricot jam recipe, made with solely three components – contemporary apricots, sugar, and lemon juice – is a straightforward technique to make apricot season final all 12 months lengthy.
I LOVE it!!!! I made the apricot jam precisely by the recipe and it was unbelievable.
Mylene
With an apricot galette, you may have the perfect of summer time—a ripe, candy fruit that speaks for itself, needing little or no added sugar and a lightweight, buttery crust that is fuss-free.
This can be a unbelievable galette recipe that’s equal components fantastic California apricots and French pastry. A style of summer time and a style of Paris unexpectedly.
Mr. Mill Valley
Peaches
Whether or not you favor to get pleasure from completely ripe peaches unadorned, juice dripping down your arms, remodeled into candy and spicy peach salsa, piled atop burrata and peach pizza, or baked right into a contemporary peach pie, these stone fruits are a much-beloved summer time favourite.
Interested by whether or not you must select clingstone or freestone? It’s as much as you. Freestone peaches are simpler to chop and pit, making them very best for the grilled peach recipe beneath or for having fun with out of hand, whereas clingstone peaches are smaller and sweeter, making them excellent for canning and preserving.
These grilled peaches with honey and black pepper are a straightforward summer time dessert that caramelizes the pure sweetness of stone fruits and turns them tender and gentle. A drizzle of honey and a slight chew from black pepper takes them excessive.
Grilled peaches are the right summer time dessert! It was the right ending to a beautiful dinner of grilled lamb chops, potato gratin, and fennel arugula salad. I served the peaches with vanilla ice cream and I had a really completely satisfied desk!
Lisa
Tomato and peach panzanella could sound unlikely but it surely’s gonna knock your socks off. Or, should you’re not sporting socks this time of 12 months, then it’ll knock your flip-flops off. Assured.
This tomato and peach panzanella is summer time in your mouth! I can’t say sufficient about how good this was. It’s peak tomato and peach season right here in Southern California which made for a scrumptious deal with.
Nancy D.
This old style peach cobbler is made with peaches, flour, milk, sugar, and a shock trick to make the floor irresistibly crackly and crisp. It is the perfect cobbler we have ever tried.
I wait longingly for peach season, simply to make this cobbler. It’s really fantastic, both contemporary out of the oven or after a day or two within the fridge…that’s, when you have any left!
Janet D.
Nectarines
Nectarines have the identical candy taste as peaches however lack the fuzzy pores and skin. Genetically, the fruits are the identical and are sometimes paired collectively in pie, crisp, cobbler, and stone fruit hunch.
Baked nectarines with port make a beautiful, summery dessert that is each straightforward and chic. Somewhat scoop of vanilla ice cream would not go amiss right here, both.
This peach nectarine cobbler combines evenly spiced stone fruit filling and cakey biscuit topping for a traditional straightforward summer time dessert.
This peach nectarine cobbler is fabulous. You may’t go fallacious with completely ripe peaches and nectarines, however these biscuits on high stole the present! I used to be hopeful that there could be leftovers to eat for breakfast however my grasping household made certain there have been none.
Angelene
Poached nectarines in rosé syrup. Easy as might be in execution. Refined in presentation. Pretty by means of and thru.
Plums
Plums are the jewel-toned star of summer time stone fruit recipes. Their sweet-tart taste and gentle, juicy flesh make them very best for baking into truffles and plum torte. For essentially the most flavorful fruit, search for plums with a deep, constant coloration that’s nonetheless agency. Keep away from any fruit that feels gentle or has blemishes or darkish spots on the pores and skin.
This skillet plum cake is a straightforward dessert to make with ripe plums (or your favourite summer time fruit) which are baked into candy buttermilk cake.
This recipe is impressed by a sorbet that I had on one such night in late summer time, the scoops piled excessive right into a waffle cone and dripping sticky-sweet plum juices down my palms—the right finish to a night.
It felt a bit sacrilegious initiating my ice cream maker with one thing apart from a traditional vanilla ice cream, however contemporary fruit was calling. Roasting with cinnamon, sugar and vanilla beans was such a easy course of, and produced an fragrant, wealthy plum sorbet with sundown colours.
At serving time, the sorbet had a richness that I’d not have anticipated from a sorbet. It was easy, simply tart sufficient to be refreshing, and a fantastic inaugural run for my ice cream maker. Thanks!
Judith P.
This plum crumble pie is made a conventional pastry crust, a effervescent fruit filling, and a straightforward crumble topping. A simple summer time dessert.
