The cherry, on account of its tough, indigestible skin and solid fruit, plays little or no part in diet for the sick. The sour morello cherry, when fully ripe, is the least objectionable of all varieties.

Cherry Juice

Put a quart of morello cherries into an ordinary granite or porcelain kettle, add a half cupful of boiling water, stir over the fire until they are boiling hot, take from the fire, mash with an ordinary pestle, and strain through two thicknesses of cheesecloth; cool at once.

Cherry juice may be substituted for orange, currant or raspberry juice as a cooling and refreshing drink.

Cherries and cherry juice contains too much free acid to be used with starchy foods or milk. Such combinations quickly upset digestion.

In fever cases cherry juice may be substituted for orange juice as a base for the beaten white of an egg, or use it as a flavoring in gelatin jellies.

Morello cherries, if the skins are rejected, will frequently relieve obstinate constipation.