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  • From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apricots and sweetness
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:46:02 -0700

Mark,

Apricots are not grown commercially here on the coast, and I know of only one private tree, espaliered on the south wall of a house, so I have never eaten an apricot that has been ripened on the tree. I have bottled many cases of apricots from the interior valley. Some years these were picked too green to ripen well, but in all cases, they were hard when picked and I had to spread them out in the house and wait for them to "ripen" before bottling. We prefer them bottled to fresh, and this may be because they are rather mealy when fresh and are juicier when bottled. I think the flavour is more intense when bottled also, but it is rather hard to separate texture and flavour, so that may not really be so.

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Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil




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