Nigel Slater’s summer cherry recipes

Hot and syrupy in a tart, cool and fragrant in a compote, this sweet seasonal fruit is hard to beatThe cherries have been extraordinary this year. There have been bag after bag of them in the fridge since the first Turkish fruits arrived at my greengrocer’s in May. A cherry at room temperature doesn’t do it for me. I like mine hot and syrupy under a soft pastry crust, or ice-cold, so their skins tighten and their juice spurts down your shirt like blood from a deep cut.There have been