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  • From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Poncirus recipes; lead in soils
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:19:56 -0600

Poncirus-lemonade
1 teaspoon poncirus juice
100 pounds of sugar
100 gallons of water
Mix well, pour over ice adding lemon juice to taste.
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DATE: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:40:34
From: "Moyer, Richard" <ramoyer@king.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:

> 3. Re: Lead takes root in urban gardens (list@ginda.us)
>Ginda, thanks much for the info, and making the connections about lead level
>gradients. I recall reading about lead in wines, traced in part to
>vineyards near majors roads where leaded gas was still used.
>
> 7. Help! Recipe needed for court case (Peter Knop)
>Peter,
>Juice can be used for a lemonade type drink, perhaps this qualifies as a
>recipe. We've only done this on limited scale, but you should be able to
>with 10 bushels! Take care as how you juice them as gummy residue could
>ruin your equipment if you can't get to it for cleaning; this happened to
>Donna Hudson. (Consider emailing Donna direct for recipes as she is
>intermittent on this list.)
>
>We eat Poncirus fruit fresh, as we have some better selections with
>non-bitter, non-emetic pulp. They are very sour, seedy, gummy and small
>(golf-ball size).
>If you are selecting for superior edible types (larger, less seedy/gummy)
>could this qualify as agriculture?
>Glad you are pursuing this, for those of us hopeful/desperate enough for
>non-greenhouse, cold-hardy citrus.
>
>Richard Moyer
>Zone 6, East Tenn, 1800'
>
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>
>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:27:58 -0500
>From: "Peter Knop" <knop@erols.com>
>Subject: [NAFEX] Help! Recipe needed for court case
>To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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>Loudoun County, VA has again declared war on farmers - this time claiming
>that seedbeds for fruit trees must be so heavily mulched as to prevent
>erosion (which also of course prevents most germination!!)
> Under state law, agriculture is exempt, but LOCO (what a suitable name
>:-) claims that fruit trees are not agricultural.
> Our current seeding programme is for apples and poncirus trifoliata
>(Hardy Orange). We have lots of recipes for apples, esp. "wild" ones for
>cider, but are very short on the poncirus. Does ANYONE, PLEASE have a
>recipe for ewither candied peel, or for jam or jelly from the pulp of these
>things. Dirr refers to an excellent jam from them, but fails to provide
>more information. His references plus a recipe (which we will use
>immediately for our first crop - we have some 10 bushels of fruit now),
>should win the day for us and take the regulator back outr of agriculture as
>intended by the state legislature.
> This is sort of important as if the precedent is set that this is NOT
>agriculture, it can open the door to massive regulation by bureaucrats
>everywhere who can't tell you where peanuts come from (we were told by one
>inspector that they came from trees like all nuts - we were tempted to ask
>if he came from a tree as he could be classified as a nut as well...... but
>we did not :-(
> Peter, Zone 7 VA, Ticonderoga Farms
>
>
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