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June 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Hi Roger, I'm not sure exactly what variety we have here, but likely brought over from the UK by the early settlers, and possibly from Asia as we had a lot of Chinese come here too. Some trees have very small and very dark crimson colored fruit, while others have very big bright lipstick red fruit
December 6, 2024 at 7:49 PM
If you just eat the wee fruits as they are, they are tarty and flourier, they don't taste very nice at all. But make a great sauce.
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 PM
But try not to boil, otherwise you'll lose the beautiful red colour. It's such a delicious sauce, and Hawthorne is really good for our hearts, it's a beta blocker.
December 6, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Into another pot. This takes time and is quite tedious, but if you rush it you'll end up with less sauce. Once done, I add about 2/3rds a cup of apple cider vinegar, 2/3rds a cup of sugger, and I also add about 1 t-spone of ginger, but you may not want to. Then just reduce untill thick.
December 6, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Just keep it at a heat just before boiling, if it boils for to long you will lose the beautiful rich red colour, and you sauce will end up brown.
Once soft, I use a potato masher and mash it all up, thrn just put small amounts into a sieve and use a spone to press all the pulp through the sieve
December 6, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Hi, the cloves are really just to stop my fingers from getting all sticky. I take around 600 grams of fruit, (that makes 4 250ml bottles) in a pot with at least 1.5lt of water, heat it untill they swell and skin splitting and are soft, but don't let it rapidly boil for a great length of time
December 6, 2024 at 3:18 PM