Subj : Pick Your Own
To : Dale Shipp
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Feb 20 2023 15:47:56
Hi Dale,
RH> Occaisionally you might get lucky and find a really sweet supermarket
RH> berry. We try to get them from a pick it yourself place that also
RH> sells pre picked boxes.
DS> Sometimes we would do that also. OTOH, when we did pick it yourself,
DS> a good bit of the berries never made it into the bucket:-}}
We did pick it yourself blueberries one year with some friends & their
kids. Didn't really eat many as I concentrated on filling the buckets.
Steve and I shared our picking with another friend who kept Rachel for
us that morning; Deborah went with us but stayed in the car napping. She
was only a year old and yes, we checked on her quite often.
RH> I know I've got a good amount of fig preserves (made a bunch last
RH> summer) but don't know about strawberry, blueberry and peach. I
know I RH> was running low on them but need to know how low. I may be
making some RH> this year, as well as peach butter.
DS> That brings back a fond memory. A long time ago (i.e. multiple
DS> decades) we were visiting Dutch country in PA. We took to driving
DS> around on the back roads and happened onto a farmhouse with a sign
DS> advertising peach
DS> butter. We stopped and bought a couple of jars. I had never had any,
DS> and was blown away with the taste.
Have you ever had sweet potato butter? Back in 1982 we bought a bushel
of sweet potatoes (maybe it was half, I don't remember exactly, but it
was a lot!). I sew aside a lot of the good looking, not too huge ones to
bake for Steve and the girls. Then I canned about another dozen or so
jars, still had some potatoes left. So, I decided to try making sweet
potato butter, basically the same way apple butter is made. IIRC, I only
got maybe half a dozen or so half pint jars out of it but to Steve, it
was some of the best thing he'd ever eaten. Spread on a home made
biscuit hot out of the oven................need I say more? (G)
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... Always butter up the SYSOP, they taste better that way.
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