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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Pyracantha Jelly

The Russians grow varieties of Pyracantha for fruit.  They have selected mild flavored types.  If Hector Black is reading this, he can probably tell you more than I.
    I remember in Davis, California, that pyracantha was a very common shrub and in midwinter the birds would feast on the berries.  Problem was, the berries had usually fermented by that time, so the number of numb, drunk birds staggering around, flying into windows and such got pretty noticeable that time of year.
=Lon Rombough
> From: VBGarden@aol.com
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> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:44:50 EST
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] Pyracantha Jelly

> I just stumbled across a recipe for Pyracantha Jelly in one of those "collected recipes" cookbooks put out, in this case, by the Junior League of Jackson, MS.  So, are pyracantha berries really edible? Delicious?  This is the first I've been aware of anyone eating them.
>
> Sybil
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