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  • From: "Anthony Curcio" <apc@vassolinc.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 55, Issue 25 Wild Plum Recipes ( Anthony Curcio, Chicago)
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:50 -0500

We picked some great wild plums this weekend.
Can't get plums to fruit in our orchard but always a good
supply if you walk the edge of the timber.
Can anyone suggest a good recipe for jelly or jam that
does not start with 5 cups of sugar. We really want the
fruit flavor to come through.
Anthony, Nth. W. Illinois.

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Apple Cider question (Erdman, James)
2. want clove-currant plants? (tanis cuff)
3. Re: want clove-currant plants? (Lee Reich)
4. Alexis Crabapple (Thomas Olenio)


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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:55:33 -0500
From: "Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple Cider question
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Jim Fruth asked:
For all of you folks who make apple cider, what do you do to keep it
from fermenting. Heating it for pasteurization changes the flavor. What
can I do to keep the fresh squeezed flavor?


Since we don't have freezer space for much cider most years, we ferment some to hard cider, but also usually can some in half-gallon jars. The time and temperature is very critical. Most years it comes out tasting slightly "cooked", but still way better than store bought apple juice or cider. If I have managed to keep the temp from getting too high (170 degrees F, I think, but would look it up to be sure), the canned juice tastes about as good as frozen. I would prefer freezing, though, if I had the freezer space. And after checking the electrical consumption of my 2 freezers, I find that a new freezer that had the capacity of both of the old ones would use less electricity than either one of the old ones, so a new bigger freezer is on the shopping list. Now I have to figure out what the biggest unit is that I can get down the basement stairs and around the corner at the bottom.

Jim, in Menomonie, WI
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:06:21 +0000
From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] want clove-currant plants?
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I sprouted some seeds of my clove-currant last year, and this year the
plants grew big enough to show that they mostly have possibly even more
severe white pine blister rust than their parent plant. They are junk for
me, but I thought I should offer them to the list before I compost them! If
you don't have any white pines around, these would be a decent landscape
shrub. Wonderful fragrance in early spring.

I don't know if these are Ribes aureum or odoratum, but could try to
determine. Parent plant is about 6' tall, with branches tending to lean
over even without fruit weight. It suckers, and I think would form a
thicket if not confined by mowing or driveways or etc. It makes worthwhile
crops maybe once in 10 years; fruit is pleasant but I don't miss it in the
off years. The parent plant was a sucker from a long-neglected planting by
an old house foundation, early 1900s, so it is hardy for s.WI zone 4.
Survives in dry sand but performs better in decent soil with extra water off
a shed roof.

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:50:29 -0400
From: Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] want clove-currant plants?
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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That sounds more like R. odoratum. R. aureum is more upright growiing
and suckers less.

Lee Reich, PhD
garden@leereich.com

Books by Lee Reich:
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year


On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:06 AM, tanis cuff wrote:

I sprouted some seeds of my clove-currant last year, and this year
the plants grew big enough to show that they mostly have possibly
even more severe white pine blister rust than their parent plant.
They are junk for me, but I thought I should offer them to the list
before I compost them! If you don't have any white pines around,
these would be a decent landscape shrub. Wonderful fragrance in
early spring.

I don't know if these are Ribes aureum or odoratum, but could try
to determine. Parent plant is about 6' tall, with branches tending
to lean over even without fruit weight. It suckers, and I think
would form a thicket if not confined by mowing or driveways or
etc. It makes worthwhile crops maybe once in 10 years; fruit is
pleasant but I don't miss it in the off years. The parent plant
was a sucker from a long-neglected planting by an old house
foundation, early 1900s, so it is hardy for s.WI zone 4. Survives
in dry sand but performs better in decent soil with extra water off
a shed roof.

_________________________________________________________________
Messenger Caf? ? open for fun 24/7. Hot games, cool activities
served daily. Visit now. http://cafemessenger.com?
ocid=TXT_TAGHM_AugHMtagline

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:52:35 -0400
From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
Subject: [NAFEX] Alexis Crabapple
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Hello,



Does anybody have personal tasting experience with Alexis Crabapple?



Thanks,

Tom

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