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Just talked to Ida
Drapkin, the Fuchsia Lady, and she gave me this recipe- 2 Cups fuchsia
berries, 1 cup sugar, 2 T surejel. Wash berries, cover with water or apple
juice - boil until berries can be mashed. Mash,strain thru cheese cloth
covered strainer. Bring juice to boil, add 1 cup sugar plus 2 T
surejel. To increase the recipe, add 1/2 C apple juice plus the juice from
one lemon to each cup fuchsia berries. Proceed as above. Most of the
fuchsia berries grown in So. Cal. probably have about the same taste - some that
are grown in other places such as the splendens varieties (which have a longer
berry) will taste a little
different.
-----Original Message-----
From:
Don & Betty Jean Wagoner <d*@effectnet.com>
To:
v*@eskimo.com
<v*@eskimo.com>
Date:
Thursday, August 19, 1999 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Fuchsia
jam
Thank you for the information on possibly a recipe
for Fuchsia jam, Procumbens is one of the variety's we grow and yes it does
produce a lot of berries. If anyone else knows more we would like to hear,
Thank you
At 05:27 AM 8/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed 18
Aug, Don & Betty Jean Wagoner wrote:
>> We are looking for a
recipe for making jam from Fuchsia berry's. We would like to add
>> the recipe to our Fuchsia web site
<<http://maxpages.com/dbnursery/home> please share
>> it
if you have one.
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>I have been interested for some time in the possibility of
growing
>fuchsias as a crop for purposes such as jam. I have not come
across a
>recipe as such but I would think as a starter you would use
the standard
>3:3:5 proportions as this is sure to give the sugar
concentration to
>preserve the fruit. As for variety, obviously any
fuchia fruit would be
>suitable but failing any other information,
from my specialist book on
>fuchsias it would seem that f.procumbens
is the one to try on account of
>its hardiness and the size of its
fruit. I have not grown it yet. I am
>at present exploring the
possibilities of other fruits such as
>passiflora and tomatillo, both
of which have potential. I may be able to
>get info from the
specialists over here but as I am not a member of any
>society I would
have to depend on the goodwill of the people
concerned.
>Allan
>
>--
>
>Allan Day Hereford
allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
>
>
Don
& Betty
Jean
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