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[shanmonster]

I'm planning on picking chokecherries on Wednesday morning. Does anyone want to come along? I want to make jam. Mmmm. Chokecherry jam....

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Chokecherries poisonous? Just the seeds.

[(Anonymous)]

If raw chokecherries were poisonous, I'd have been dead LONG, LONG ago! I ate lots of them while growing up, and even now, will have some as I'm picking them. Only the really ripe, almost black ones are good, and they do make your mouth pucker up. What is poisonous is the seed. Never bite into one, and when cooking for jelly or syrup, never crush the seeds--just gently push out the juice through a colander, then let hang in cheesecloth bag for rest of juice to drain.