To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Autumn Olive
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:46:06 -0500
I have three Autumn Olive cultivars that produce berries much larger
than the wild bushes that grow around here. Brilliant Rose and
Sparkling Blush came from Hidden Springs and Ruby from One Green World.
Yields vary from year to year and from bush to bush. This year I picked
about 4 pounds each from Sparkling Blush and Ruby. In each case without
moving my feet from one spot. Left the remaining 80% or so for the
birds. Brilliant Rose bore somewhat less this year.
A couple of years ago, I sent the following report to the list
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I have three named cultivars of autumn olive, obtained from several
nurseries. All bore heavily this year. At two dates I averaged the
weight of 300 berries from each with the following results:
I cook the berries & coarse filter the juice. To some I add 3 cups
sugar to 4 cups of juice and cook it down for a pretty good jelly. For
the rest I add 1/4 cup of Aronia berries and a cup of sugar for each cup
of juice before cooking down. The Aronia flavor predominates and is
very good with no bitter aftertaste.