The American Beagler Forum

Take your family out and gather the wild fruits while your dogs run!
Sure makes a fine outing. Teaches kids something they ought to know. Never seen them as big in years, almost as big as plums. Scupanons next month.

Ummm Hey John Ya Aint gonna happen to Ferment any this year are ya????
Aint had No Fermented Muscadine for a LOOONNNGGGG Time LOL...
Mulberry Trees Sure produced here this year and The persimmon Tree Looks to have a Good Crop here.. got Real Lucky that the Old Owners of this place missed em and didnt cut em Down Like they did the Hickory tree!!!
Couple Small trees Growin back at the Stump though Hopefully My Daugter will be able to enjoy em in the years to come...... man I love the Fall of the year.

Persimmons still need a couple more weeks in northern va. What's a Scupanon and a Muscadine?

coolbrze wrote: What's a Scupanon and a Muscadine?

Glad someone else asked cause I was afraid to! LOL!

I dunno either, Aaron, but if ya can make wine from them, I'm sure I like them...

They are grapes!

John,
Muscadines are the best here this year they have been since I was a kid.
My concord grapes did better than ever have this year too, 42 pints of Jelly & 8 of the 2 litre bottles of some other stuff that I keep around for medicinal purposes only.
The Blackberries were best in long time also here this year, 24 pints of jelly & put a dozen pies in the freezer.
Wild pears were not good here at my place though, but the mulberry tree was loaded as it could be, but takes so many of them to fill your bucket, its a lot like work, just had a couple pies.
My son is tickled we can finally run dogs without having to pick blackberries, but he doesn't complain when he is filling the center of a hot cathead biscuit with butter & fresh jelly.

Take care,
Plowboy

We picked about 2 gallons other eve off my muscadine vine here in the back yard and still plenty of them left. Cant wait till the scuperdines get ripe

Jason

They grow on a vine and run up the trees in the wild. Climb or shake vines. They are not in bunches like grapes at the store, but single. You don't eat the outside, its too thick, but put the stem end in your lips, pointed toward the inside of your mouth, in your mouth and squeeze the muscadine hard with your fingers.
It will pop open and squirt the pulp and some of the sweetest juice will pop in your mouth.
Taste like wine and are 25% sugar.

TC, you're right, that sugar makes for good fermenting.

Plowboy Great jelly too. Best there is! You're as big a gatherer as we are. You're set for all winter. Do you gather herbs too?

Medicinal????? HA

Kidd, How much wine out of 2 gallons ?

Muscadine Purple, Scupanine is cousin, greenish yellow but ripens 30 days later.

Wife doesn't like them turning her legs green when she gets in that 55 gallon drum and has to jump up and down and march around to get the juice.

Not up North? I didn't know that.

I don't know about the up north part I grew up in Maryland and we ate Muscadine until we would get sick, and then later in life got sick off another version of muscadines LOL!!!!!! Sure miss grandmas blackberry jelly. Cathead biscuits shoot I better stop I'm getting hungry LOL.

I never see persimonns around here any more. Man they will turn your lips inside out if they arent ripe.

2 SO CALLED FRIENDS OF MINE FED ME A GREEN PERSIMMON ONE TIME.
I WON'T BE GATHERING ANY.
MIKE

My dad raise muscadines in his back yard. He's been doing it for years.
Usually he can't count the number of gallons he sells at 5 bucks apiece.
People love them for jelly and wine. This has been a good year.
He doesn't like me to help him pick, I eat as many as I put in the bucket.

A green persimmon to a city slicker always gives me a chuckle. I got a friend who knows how to "ferment" it all and I must say, it has been a particularly good year for the blackberries and muscadines in these parts.

Jack Keller's home page from Texas is full of Muscadine and scuppernog "stories"

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/plants.asp