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  • From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Clove currant ideas
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:46:01 -0500

You have enough Crandall to make a pie. When I was a kid, the whole
family would pick clove currants that grew wild on our farm in western
Kansas and my mother would make pies from them that were delicious eaten
with vanilla ice cream to tone done the tartness of the currants. (I'd
use 4 c. currants, 1 c. granulated sugar, 2 Tbsp. cornstarch, pinch of
salt, and dot with 2 Tbsp. butter.) If the currant taste is too
assertive, mix with an equal amount of peeled, chopped apple (in this
case, reduce the sugar to 3/4 cup).

Differences I've noticed between the Crandall I grow up here in
Minnesota (USDA Hardiness Zone 4b) and those that grow wild on the farm,
is that the fruit ripens in September here and about July 4 in Kansas.
Also, the berries from my bushes are not as sweet as the wild ones at
home. I've always chalked these up to the higher average temp in
Kansas. -- Sam Brungardt, Saint Paul, Minn.

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of tanis cuff
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 7:52 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Clove currant ideas


Thanks. If these continue to bear in future years, cooking trials are
next.
This year only about 4 yogurt containers. Fun to take to relatives
who
know that this is the "first fruit ever" from the "yellow honeysuckle"
salvaged from an old house site.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Lon J. Rombough" <>
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Clove currant ideas
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:52:40 -0700

I have a USDA Yearbook of Agriculture that described new fruits and it
talks
about the Crandall and how it was commonly grown from seed by many
nurserymen, so apparently it comes quite true from seed.

-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association
"Best
Talent in Writing" award for 2003.


On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Richard Moyer wrote:

Tanis,
We have a cultivar of clove currant, "Crandall", and the seedlings
coming up around the yard are indistinguishable from the mother plant,
at least here.

Have you tried cooking any of the fruit, even a few? In our estimation,
Crandall improves quite a bit upon slight cooking.


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