Subj : Pick Your Own
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Feb 18 2023 12:23:58

Hi Dave,


 RH> We had blackberry and raspberry patches on some of the land adjoining
 RH> ours. Neighbors owned it but we had permission to pick all the berries
 RH> we wanted. Same with the apple trees they had. The property had a

 DD> Three houses ago I had raspberries along the fence at the back of the
 DD> lot just past the asparagus bed. But no strawberries

We had more blackberry bushes than raspberry. The latter usually
produced only enough for a cereal topping (I'd now put them on ice cream
too.); the former were prolific enough that my mom usually made a
couple of blackberry pies each summer.


 DD> berries were no bigger than the first joint of my thumb (1 1/2"
 RH>  hull DD> to tip). DD> Unlike the huuuuuge hybrid berries I see in some
 RH>  Stupormarkup DD> displays.

 RH> Berries we found were maybe a third of that size. Took a good number of
 RH> them just to have a few for all of us in the family (7) some on our
 RH> cereal.

 DD> Not all the berries are that big. I found that the smaller the berry
 DD> the more tart it was.

 RH> We found ours to be quite sweet.

 DD> The small berries were sort-of sweet. But not as sweet as the bigger
 DD> guys. And I've noticed the the huge stupormarkup berries tend to be
 DD> bland WRT taste and sweetness.

Occaisionally you might get lucky and find a really sweet supermarket
berry. We try to get them from a pick it yourself place that also sells
pre picked boxes.


 DD>       Title: Strawberry Preserves DD>  Categories: Five, Fruits DD>
 RH>  Yield: 5 half-pints

 DD>       2 lb Fresh picked strawberries
 DD>   3 1/2 ts Lemon juice
 DD>       1 c  Sugar
 DD>     1/2 oz Butter

 RH> I go the faster route, using sure jel, the lower sugar recipe.

 DD> I'm making preserves here - not jam or jelly.   Bv)=  Pectin is for
 DD> use in jelly making ... grape, apple, etc. And peach or apricot jam.

 RH> I make sort of a hybrid jam/preserves--a lot of fruit and sugar, the
 RH> pectin to set it up faster.

 DD> Faie enuff. I still remember the line from the song "Must be jelly,
 DD> because jam don't shake like that" by Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon.

Not one I'm familiar with. I do need to check my jam/preserve supply; I
know I've got a good amount of fig preserves (made a bunch last summer)
but don't know about strawberry, blueberry and peach. I know I was
running low on them but need to know how low. I may be making some this
year, as well as peach butter.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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