C.J. Olson Family Recipes You Will Love - C.J. Olson Cherries

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/3 plus 1 tbs. butter
• 1/3 plus 1 tbs. shortening
• 4 -5 tbs cold water
• ¾ to 1 ¼ cups. Sugar (Depending of the sweetness of the cherries and personal preference)
• 1/3 cup flour
• 8 cups Pitted of Olson’s Cherries (about 3 ½ lb.)
• ¼ tsp almond extract
• 2 tbs butter
• 8 cups of washed, pitted and halved Olson’s Blenheim apricots
• 5 cups of sugar
• 1 20 oz. can of crushed pineapple
• Juice from 2-3 lemons in a small bowl (this helps cut down on the sweetness of the apricots);(Make sure there are no lemon seeds in the juice.)