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["Anthony Curcio" <apc@vassolinc.com>]

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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>   1. Re: Apple Cider question (Erdman, James)
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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
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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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> 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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> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:50:29 -0400
> From: Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] want clove-currant plants?
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> That sounds more like R. odoratum. R. aureum is more upright growiing
> and suckers less.
>
> Lee Reich, PhD
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> The Pruning Book
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> 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.
> >
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> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:52:35 -0400
> From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Alexis Crabapple
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> Hello,
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> Does anybody have personal tasting experience with Alexis Crabapple?
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> Thanks,
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> Tom
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