National Cherry Turnover Day is celebrated annually in the United States on August 28th. This is the perfect time to celebrate this dessert, as summer is almost over and people are still heading outdoors for picnics or camping, so cherry turnovers make a great souvenir.

A cherry tart is a puff pastry that is filled with cherry filling and then baked until it turns golden brown. There are many variations of this dish, but the classic remains a favorite.

• 72 BC – Lucius Licinius Lucullus brings a cultivated cherry from northeastern Anatolia to Rome.
• 1440 – The first documented case of turnover occurred in 1440.
• 1600s – English colonists bring cherries to North America.
• 1850s – Peter Dougherty, a Presbyterian missionary, plants cherry trees on the Old Mission Peninsula, paving the way for modern cherry cultivation.
• 1893 – The first commercial sour cherry orchards are established at Ridgewood Farm in Michigan.
• 1920s – Bakeries and food companies begin mass producing cherry turnovers to make them more accessible to the public.
• 1980s – Fast food chains like Arby’s introduced cherry turnovers as a regular dessert on their menus, further increasing their popularity.
• 1990s – With the advent of food blogs and cooking shows, recipes for homemade cherry turnovers become increasingly popular and encourage home cooking and baking.
• Turnovers have been around since ancient times and were once called “portable pies.”
• Like most desserts, cherry turnovers originated in France. They originated from savory meat pies that were later developed into desserts that could easily be carried around by workers.
• It is believed that the monks of the German monastery of Maulbronn invented the pie to hide the fact that they ate meat during Lent.
• Compared to lighter cherries, darker cherries have a higher antioxidant content.
• A commercially grown cherry tree produces an average of 7,000 cherries per year.
• In the USA, over 75% of the cherries sold come from the state of Michigan.
• Frozen cherries concentrate and improve their flavor.
• Cherries are related to plums, peaches and nectarines.
• Cherries are stone fruits.
• There are more than 1,000 varieties of cherries in the United States.
• One pound contains an average of 44 cherries.
• Darker cherries contain a stronger antioxidant effect than light cherries.
• A cherry tree used for marketing purposes produces an average of 7,000 cherries per year.
• The English word “cherry” is derived from the French word “.treasure.When English speakers first heard the word, they misunderstood the spelling and assumed it was the plural of the fruit. This is why the terms “cherry” and “cherries” do not correspond in either language to this day.
• In the gambling world, cherries are king – especially when it comes to slot machines. The reason for this, according to “Professor Slots” Jon Friedl, is that when slot machines were invented in the early 1900s, they were quickly banned in several cities. “To get around these new laws on cash-paying slot machines,” says Friedl, “manufacturers started converting their gambling machines into gumball machines.” Numbers were replaced with fruit symbols, and getting three in a row won you a piece of gum. Since cherry-flavored candy was the most popular at the time, three cherries eventually became the biggest – and most coveted – prize.

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