Cranberries, Round III

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February/March 2002
 
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If you want to try making jam, jelly, sauce or juice from American highbush cranberries (V. edule), here are some important tips:

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• Taste first! If the cranberries taste like medicine, then they aren't food. They should taste like cranberries. Good and bad bushes can be side by side.

• Harvest after the berries have turned red, but before they have softened. Freeze and thaw and they will soften so you can juice them.

• Never boil with the seeds in. While American highbush cranberries may look and taste like cranberries, they do not have the small seeds of real cranberries, but a large single seed. The seed is very bitter and should be removed from the berry before cooking. Remove all stems before crushing or pressing.

• For a cleaner, prettier and better-flavored juice, let the juice settle in the refrigerator a few days. Then siphon or pour off the top juice. discarding the sludge that settles to the bottom.

SAM THAYER
Wild Foods Institute
Port Wing, Wisconsin

If you would like to grow your own true, great tasting native Viburnum edule, you can order from the following company:


Fraser's Thimble Farms
175 Arbutus Road
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1A3
Canada
(250) 537-5788
 www.thimblefarms.com

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