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["Bill Russell" <shaman@penn.com>]

There's another way to use the less accepted fruits by making fruit wines.
Choke cherries make a  good wine. We found that adding oak chops to the vat
reduces the taste - if not the content - of its astringent principles, for
some reason. Everybody has heard of elderberry wine. I made fairly good wine
one year from Cornelian Cherries. Red Haws did not make agood tasting wine.
Black haws make a wine with a fig-like flavor.

Also you may get certain herbal benefits from drinking fruit wines. For a
long time herbalists have believed that elderberries relieve sciatica,
cherries (any kind) relieve gout, black haw for menstrual and other
abdominal cramps, and that red haws are good for the heart and circulation.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Akebia anyone?


> Hi,
>
> Quick question...
>
> A lot of people would say that Black Currants taste like shoe innersoles,
> less the sugar, but they make my favorite jelly.  To which the ney-sayers
> say, add enough sugar to anything and it will taste good.
>
> Is there any good use of this Akebia, or is it only the best fruit that
> can be grown in its native region?
>
> I don't mean to knock anyone's opinion, but if I had not picked black
> currants and processed them into jelly, I would have missed out on
> something I like.
>
> Maybe this would make a good annual NAFEX meeting event, tasting
> fruit recipes made of less accepted fruit.  All people would need to do is
> bring a couple jars of their best less known fruit preserves, and let
> people taste them on soda crackers.
>
> I am still anxious to taste quince off my own tree, but have no plan to
> eat one raw.
>
> Just a thought.  No offense meant to anyone.  Taste is SO subjective.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> --
> Thomas Olenio
> Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Lon J. Rombough wrote:
>
> > Imagine sweetened glue - that's what the pulp tastes like.  Edible, but
> > hardly wonderful.  The fruits have a purple-blotchy look that makes them
> > look like a vine full of excised cancer tumors. Keep the vines if you
want
> > an ornamental - the flowers are nice - but skip it if you want fruit.
> > -Lon Rombough
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> > >From: lostman_amiga@yahoo.com
> > >To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> > >Subject: [nafex] Akebia anyone?
> > >Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2001, 5:26 AM
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> > >hey, has anyone tryed the Akebia vine yet? I found 2 at home depot a
> > >while back an was wondering how the fruit was?
> > >My is in bloom now and I read that hand pollenation gives more fruit
> > >
> > >They were cheap, so I thought I would give it a try.
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