Huckleberries
 

Is there anybody out there who actually likes the taste of huckleberries,
lol?!

I've grown my first huckleberries this year and picked my first batch of
ripe berries last weekend. I think they taste pretty vile, so does my
fiance and there's not much he doesn't like, particularly when it comes to
berries. Anyhow I managed to use them as I mixed them with blackberries and
bilberries I had picked during country walks and made a berry crumble.
Tasted very good too!

Now the question is, can anybody recommend other ways of using
huckleberries, apart from mixing with other berries and sticking them in a
pie?

Thanks.

Tracey

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Is there anybody out there who actually likes the taste of huckleberries,
lol?!

Do you mean huckleberries, or the misleadingly named 'Garden Huckleberries'?

I've grown my first huckleberries this year and picked my first batch of
ripe berries last weekend. I think they taste pretty vile, so does my
fiance and there's not much he doesn't like, particularly when it comes to
berries. Anyhow I managed to use them as I mixed them with blackberries and
bilberries I had picked during country walks and made a berry crumble.
Tasted very good too!

Ah. You must mean the garden huckleberry, which is just a grown-up black
nightshade. I don't find them vile - just rather lacking in flavour. I
prefer black nightshade, which is pleasantly sweet, though also rather
lacking in flavour.

Proper huckleberries are a species of whortleberry/bilberry/blaeberry.

Now the question is, can anybody recommend other ways of using
huckleberries, apart from mixing with other berries and sticking them in a
pie?

I only grew them once...

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from "Tracey" contains these words:

Is there anybody out there who actually likes the taste of
huckleberries,
lol?!

Do you mean huckleberries, or the misleadingly named 'Garden
Huckleberries'?

I've grown my first huckleberries this year and picked my first batch of
ripe berries last weekend. I think they taste pretty vile, so does my
fiance and there's not much he doesn't like, particularly when it comes
to
berries. Anyhow I managed to use them as I mixed them with blackberries
and
bilberries I had picked during country walks and made a berry crumble.
Tasted very good too!

Ah. You must mean the garden huckleberry, which is just a grown-up black
nightshade. I don't find them vile - just rather lacking in flavour. I
prefer black nightshade, which is pleasantly sweet, though also rather
lacking in flavour.

Proper huckleberries are a species of whortleberry/bilberry/blaeberry.

Now the question is, can anybody recommend other ways of using
huckleberries, apart from mixing with other berries and sticking them in
a
pie?

I only grew them once...

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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Yes, sorry, should have said they are garden huckleberries. The one I
sampled was so bitter I had to spit it out - yuck, it was horrid!

I won't be growing them again...

Tracey

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Yes, sorry, should have said they are garden huckleberries. The one I
sampled was so bitter I had to spit it out - yuck, it was horrid!

Bitter? Even an unripe one should be no more bitter than an unripe
tomato. When ripe, the fruit are squishy and sweet, with a flavour
slightly reminiscent of not a lot.

I won't be growing them again...

They make a rather bland wine of extraordinary colour. Worth growing
just for the table decoration!

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Yes, sorry, should have said they are garden huckleberries. The one I
sampled was so bitter I had to spit it out - yuck, it was horrid!

Bitter? Even an unripe one should be no more bitter than an unripe
tomato. When ripe, the fruit are squishy and sweet, with a flavour
slightly reminiscent of not a lot.

I won't be growing them again...

They make a rather bland wine of extraordinary colour. Worth growing
just for the table decoration!

--
Rusty
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My step-mum who gave me the plants told me yesterday that I should let the
frost get to them before using as this will make them less bitter. Any
thoughts?

The wine idea sounds good!

Tracey

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My step-mum who gave me the plants told me yesterday that I should let the
frost get to them before using as this will make them less bitter. Any
thoughts?

That's sloes...

I would have thought frost on garden huckleberries would have turned
them rotten unless they were used immediately. Remember, they are very
closely related to the tomato.

The wine idea sounds good!

I generally make a gallon of it (using black nightshade, but the two
plants are very similar) by cooking about four pounds of the berries in
a cupful of water and mixing with some sugar and white grape juice from
the supermarket.

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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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My step-mum who gave me the plants told me yesterday that I should let the
frost get to them before using as this will make them less bitter. Any
thoughts?

That's sloes...

Sloes aren't bitter ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Nick Maclaren wrote:

My step-mum who gave me the plants told me yesterday that I should let the
frost get to them before using as this will make them less bitter. Any
thoughts?

That's sloes...

Sloes aren't bitter ....

No, but almost everyone refers to an acid taste as bitter despite my
best efforts at educating them! ;-)

David

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from "Tracey" contains these words:

My step-mum who gave me the plants told me yesterday that I should
let the
frost get to them before using as this will make them less bitter. Any
thoughts?

That's sloes...

Sloes aren't bitter ....

I'm referring to the frost...

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Many years ago in ignorance I sowed a row of Garden Huckleberries and found
they were the same as black nightshade-a common weed in the area of Cheshire
where we lived.
Solanum Niger is not particularly flavoursome and I wouldn't recommend. Yuk
is a reasonably accurate description

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Is there anybody out there who actually likes the taste of
huckleberries,
lol?!

Do you mean huckleberries, or the misleadingly named 'Garden
Huckleberries'?

I've grown my first huckleberries this year and picked my first batch
of
ripe berries last weekend. I think they taste pretty vile, so does my
fiance and there's not much he doesn't like, particularly when it
comes
to
berries. Anyhow I managed to use them as I mixed them with
blackberries
and
bilberries I had picked during country walks and made a berry crumble.
Tasted very good too!

Ah. You must mean the garden huckleberry, which is just a grown-up black
nightshade. I don't find them vile - just rather lacking in flavour. I
prefer black nightshade, which is pleasantly sweet, though also rather
lacking in flavour.

Proper huckleberries are a species of whortleberry/bilberry/blaeberry.

Now the question is, can anybody recommend other ways of using
huckleberries, apart from mixing with other berries and sticking them
in
a
pie?

I only grew them once...

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Yes, sorry, should have said they are garden huckleberries. The one I
sampled was so bitter I had to spit it out - yuck, it was horrid!

I won't be growing them again...

Tracey