[Sca-cooks] Re: shish kabab response #1

[Sue Clemenger]

Ah, but Huette, dearie, you're thinking California-centric <g>, and I'm
up in the mountains in NW Montana.  We're lucky to get apricots at 
all--our winters aren't exactly hospitable, and in some parts of the 
state, we have a remarkably short growing season (Memorial Day to Labor 
Day, roughly, as a frost-free zone, especially where I was growing up, 
and that wasn't even an area that was particularly vertically challenged 
[altitude can be an issue in some parts of the state...we're about at 
32-3300 feet here]).  In the right microclimates here you can get some
good stone fruit crops, though, which is why, I suspect, apricots grow
here in Missoula.  Plums everywhere.  And the Flathead area(a couple
hours north of me...largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes,
IIRC) is famous for its Bing cherries (season in mid-late July, mostly). 
  Some parts of the state (the Bitterroot Valley south of here, for 
example) turns out to be really good for some types of apples (MacIntosh 
in particular...oooh, my, I can hardly wait for the fresh cider! <weg>)

I would be very interested in your pickled apricot recipe, thanks! ;oD
--Maire, waiting for the blackberries to ripen so that she can make some 
liqueur.....

Huette von Ahrens wrote:
> Your neighbors have apricots that ripen this late?  Wow!  My two
> trees started to ripen in May and were done by the end of June.  I
> have a really good pickled apricot recipe, if you are interested.
> 
> Huette