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[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Almonds are a stone fruit, too. It's just that the part we eat is inside the pit. Ever notice how almonds still in the shell kinda look like a peach pit?

Peaches and plums used to be cherry sized, too (and cherries are stone fruits as well, but selective breeding got the fruit-to-pit ratio better for peaches/plums/apricots/nectarines).

So some recipes call for processing cherry pits, and the flavor is pretty close to almond extract. Because almond extract is just bitter almonds processed in a similar way.