National Cherry Turnover Day is celebrated every year on August 28 in the United States. This is a great time to celebrate this dessert because it is almost the end of summer and people are still going out for picnics or camping. Cherry turnovers are therefore a great food to take with you.
Cherry turnover is a puff pastry filled with cherry filling and then baked until golden brown. There are many variations of this dish, but the classic remains the favorite.
- 72 BC – Lucius Licinius Lucullus brings to Rome a cultivated cherry tree from northeastern Anatolia.
- 1440 – The first recorded instance of rotations occurred in 1440
- 1600s – English settlers bring cherries to North America.
- 1850s – Peter Dougherty, a Presbyterian missionary, plants cherry trees on the Old Mission Peninsula, paving the way for modern cherry production.
- 1893 – The first commercial tart cherry orchards are planted in Michigan at Ridgewood Farm.
- 1920s – Bakeries and food companies begin mass producing cherry turnovers, making them more accessible to the public.
- 1980s – Fast food chains like Arby’s introduced cherry turnovers as a regular dessert on their menus, further increasing their popularity.
- 1990s – With the advent of food blogs and cooking shows, homemade cherry turnover recipes become increasingly popular, encouraging home cooking and baking.
- Turnovers date back to ancient times and were once called “portable pies.”
- The cherry turnover originated in France, like most desserts. It originated from savory meat pies that were transformed into desserts that workers could easily take with them.
- It is believed that the monks of the German monastery of Maulbronn invented slippers to disguise the fact that they were eating meat during Lent.
- Compared to lighter cherries, darker cherries have higher levels of antioxidants.
- A commercially grown cherry tree will produce an average of 7,000 cherries per year.
- In the United States, more than 75% of cherries sold come from the state of Michigan.
- Frozen cherries tend to concentrate and improve their flavor.
- Cherries are related to plums, peaches, and nectarines.
- Cherries are drupes or stone fruits.
- There are over 1,000 varieties of cherries in the United States.
- There are an average of 44 cherries in a pound.
- Darker cherries contain more antioxidant power than lighter cherries.
- On average, a cherry tree used for commercial purposes will produce 7,000 cherries per year.
- The English word “cherry” is derived from the French word “Honey.“English speakers, hearing the word for the first time, misunderstood how it was spelled and assumed it was the plural of fruit — which is why the terms “cherry” and “cherries” do not correspond in the two languages, even to this day.
- In the gambling world, cherries rule, especially on slot machines. The reason, according to Jon Friedl of “Professor Slots,” is that when slot machines were invented in the early 1900s, many cities quickly banned them. “To get around these new cash-based slot machine laws,” Friedl explains, “manufacturers began turning their gaming machines into gumball machines.” The numbers were replaced with fruit symbols, and when you got three in a row, you won a piece of gumball. Since cherry treats were the most popular at the time, three cherries eventually became the biggest — and most sought-after — payout.
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