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  • From: "Cindie Strater" <tovaryn@gmail.com>
  • To: "'Seed Keepers'" <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] ping Lawrence -- Wild Plum tree || New possible use: pickled Umeboshi plum
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:50:11 -0500



> -----Original Message-----
> From: seedkeepers-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:seedkeepers-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:12 PM
> To: Seed Keepers
> Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] ping Lawrence -- Wild Plum tree
> || New possible use: pickled Umeboshi plum
>
<snip>
>
> Anyone know how Umeboshi are made and how the beefsteak
> leaves are incorporated into the pickle?
> What plant produces these beefsteak leaves; is it red shiso?

Here is a website devoted to making umeboshi. I've not tried umeboshi, but
it sounds like another good way to preserve the harvest. I haven't read all
the recipes on this site yet. Maybe they also discuss beefsteak leaves.

http://www.pickled-ume.com/english/

>
> All this is classed as traditional Japanese macrobiotic food.
>
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