Posts Tagged ‘recipes’
Featured Fruit – Nagoonberry
Found in Northern Alaska in shady thickets, meadows, and stream sides. If you aren’t lucky enough to grow your own nagoonberries or find them in the wild, you can replace them with raspberries or strawberries in this recipe for trail cookies. Nagoonberry Hardtack (Taken from the Alaska Wildberry Guide and Cookbook.) 4 cups nagoonberries…
Read MoreFeatured Fruit — Nanking Cherry
Nanking Cherry Exerpted from “Plums on the Prairies” by Rick Sawatzky http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/dom_fruit/articles/plums.pdf “Prunus tomentosa, Nanking cherry, is widely grown in the prairie provinces. Nanking cherry as well as eastern and western sandcherries are listed with the plums because they are more closely related botanically to the plums than to true cherries. Nanking cherry…
Read MoreWelcome to the RECIPES Edition
By Tami Schlies What does a fruit grower do when not growing fruit? Eat it! As you’ve probably noticed, I like to include at least one recipe in every edition. This edition will be an all recipes issue, focusing on apples. With the holidays just around the corner, you might be thinking of…
Read MoreReindeer Sausage Apple Crisp Pie
By Carol Ross Apple filling: Made when apples are harvested and frozen in 12 or 16 oz plastic Cool Whip containers. Place plastic wrap on top of apples before putting on lid. Label and date. 5 cups large Rescue crabapples cut in quarters and cut out core and seeds, (not pared.) 1/4 cup brown…
Read MoreGluten Free Rhubarb Cream Cheese Tea Cake
Reprinted with permission from You Can Eat This! 22 Gluten Free Comfort Recipes This cake is a bit involved to assemble, but well worth the effort. The cake portion has a pastry-like texture, and the layers of fruit and cream cheese give the confection a complexity that makes it hard to stop eating. If you…
Read MoreFeatured Fruit — Avocado
Avocado Persea Americana Avocados grow in subtropical climes where there is no frost and little wind, though the Haas cultivar has been known to tolerate temperatures down to −1°C. The trees are partially self-fertile, and like apples are propagated by grafting to maintain predictability in the fruit. The rough, green-skinned, pear shaped fruit is botanically…
Read MoreGrammy Nedra’s Carrot Cake
This is a really great cake made with our sweet Alaskan carrots. The recipe was requested by several people at one of our fall meetings after sampling some mini-cupcakes. CAKE Grease a large bundt pan & preheat oven to 325 F. In a large mixing bowl cream: 2 c. of sugar 1…
Read MoreFeatured Recipes 2006
Spicy Cider Syrup Submitted by Kevin Irvin 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 cups Apple Cider 2 tablespoons lemon juice ¼ cup butter or margarine In 2-quart saucepan, mix sugar, 3 T flour, ¼ tsp. cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in cider and lemon…
Read MoreMaking Jam and Jelly
By Tami Schlies Jams and jellies are a fine balance of four essential ingredients; fruit, pectin, sugar, and acid. Each type of fruit provides at least some natural pectin and acid, with slightly under-ripe fruit providing slightly more than the fully ripe counterpart. This is why many recipes suggest using about one-fourth under-ripe fruit, so…
Read MoreFeatured Fruit — Wild Alaskan Blueberry
Wild Alaskan Blueberry Vaccinium ovalifolium, V. alaskensis, V. uliginosum Our wild blueberries here in Alaska tend to be much more flavorful than the commercial blueberries bought at the grocery store. They grow in such abundance that many find no need to attempt the very specific conditions required for growing blueberry cultivars in their back…
Read MoreRecipes — October 2002
Bartlett Cream Pie 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup instant tapioca 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 4 to 5 cups ripe Bartlett pears, peeled, cored, & sliced 1 cup heavy cream Cornmeal Pastry Dough 3/4 cup flour 1/4 cup cornmeal 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup butter, chilled and cut into…
Read MoreRecipes – Spring 2002
Homemade Fruit Juice from Jackson Gardens Pick berries when ripe and freeze. Later, thaw berries in a strainer to remove juice naturally, without killing the healthy enzymes in them. Once the berries are thawed and strained, you can use a juicer or steamer to get the last of the juice out. Freeze the juice…
Read MoreBlueberry Recipes
Blueberry Bavarian Cream 1 pkg (6 oz) red gelatin (raspberry, strawberry, cherry, etc.) 168 g 2C boiling water 480 mL 1C pineapple juice (from crushed pineapple; if not a cup of juice, 240 mL add water to make up difference) 2-2 ½C crushed pineapple (unsweetened, drained) 480-600 mL 1 C blueberries 240 mL…
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