Last week and even now the weather is fantastic, low 20's, not a lot of rain. The water is low in the pond. My birthday is September 30 and September is my favourite month. I love to roam the forest.
Last week I did hunting for ginseng. I did not find ginseng but I did find lots of other stuff.
To your left you will see a high bush cranberry just loaded with berries. I found this and many other on the bank of our south west creek. I picked a bunch of these as well as many pounds of elderberry.
Let me tell you about what I found out.
High bush cranberry looks beautiful and makes an interesting jelly. It is similar to cranberry but with a not so pretty oder. The oder is much the same as the smell of dirty socks if you can imagine. An acquired taste.
Elderberry is fun to pick. My husband came home and we went picking elderberries. In 30 minutes we each had a grocery bag full. Well the real work is in cleaning the little berries off the stems. You dont want any stems. We kind of milked/rubbed them off gently and then picked through them. I then filled a large bowl of water and cleaned them. This causes the bad berries and debris to float to the top where they could easily be skimmed off.
Elderberries make for a wonderful coloured juice. I would cook with water and then strain through a jelly bag. Everything looks so delicious. The fact is it is not as good. I made an elderberry crisp but the elderberrys are seedy. Next time I will add half of another fruit and some cinnamon.
The juice has some great health benifits of which you can google, especially for flu and colds.
Last week I did hunting for ginseng. I did not find ginseng but I did find lots of other stuff.
To your left you will see a high bush cranberry just loaded with berries. I found this and many other on the bank of our south west creek. I picked a bunch of these as well as many pounds of elderberry.
Let me tell you about what I found out.
High bush cranberry looks beautiful and makes an interesting jelly. It is similar to cranberry but with a not so pretty oder. The oder is much the same as the smell of dirty socks if you can imagine. An acquired taste.
Elderberry is fun to pick. My husband came home and we went picking elderberries. In 30 minutes we each had a grocery bag full. Well the real work is in cleaning the little berries off the stems. You dont want any stems. We kind of milked/rubbed them off gently and then picked through them. I then filled a large bowl of water and cleaned them. This causes the bad berries and debris to float to the top where they could easily be skimmed off.
Elderberries make for a wonderful coloured juice. I would cook with water and then strain through a jelly bag. Everything looks so delicious. The fact is it is not as good. I made an elderberry crisp but the elderberrys are seedy. Next time I will add half of another fruit and some cinnamon.
The juice has some great health benifits of which you can google, especially for flu and colds.
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