We get a lot of fruit from the garden during the summer. First to ripen are cherries, then various types of peaches, apples and plums. There are also some quince. And of course grapes, which I'll come back to later.
In Hungary there are two different names for cherries - cseresznye (sweet) and meggy (sour). We have one tree of each. The sweet are lovely for eating, the sour are edible but better for cooking. They ripen in early summer. The only problem is that the trees are very large and it's impossible to reach all of the cherries. On the other hand there are far too many to eat anyway!
All the fruit is ripening early this year. There's been a lot of sunshine but also a good bit of rain through June and July which probably helped. We've been eating grapes since mid-July which I believe is very early.
The only problem with so much fruit is that you have to find a use for it. We've pureed quite a lot into juice. Györgyi's mother makes a nice "hideg gyümölcsleves" - cold fruit soup . Much is given away to relatives. Some of it just rots...
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