[Sca-cooks] Growing for Feast
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at jeffnet.org
Tue Apr 19 09:31:09 PDT 2005
At 09:16 AM 4/19/2005, you wrote:
>This is the part that will make you crazy. Our ancient ancestors didn't
>have to deal with kingdom calendar scheduling a year in advance. They
>could hold a harvest festival whenever the harvest actually happened. I
>timed a cooking contest, whose theme ingredient was "plums" to the usual
>date when my parents' trees were usually at their peak harvest. Then we
>had a hot snap in the late spring and the damn things ripened a month
>early. Aieeeee!
Definitely can't count on Mother Nature, eh?
The plum tree right outside my window was so heavy with fruit last year
that we were concerned about damage to the limbs. I don't remember how many
gallons of plums we picked- it was a LOT. Morwyn brought her orchard ladder
over and we stripped the tree. She took a bunch home with her, and my
student Larry and I spent several hours just pitting plums, not to mention
the next couple of days worth of jam, sauce, etc (BTW- the 'Erbowle'- ISTR
from _Two-15th C_- is terrifically easy to put up, and is delightful on
just about anything).
This year? Maybe a dozen blooms. Good thing I put up so much last year!
'Lainie
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