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In the spring of 2011 I purchased a little cumquat plant at a local nursery, more for fun and curiousity than with any intention of getting edible fruit from it. Last fall I got my first fruit and then, surprisingly, I had some “fresh” fruit throughout the winter!
This year, the plant of course is getting bigger and producing more fruit. Now, with so many ripe at the same time, I had to find something to do with them besides popping the little pucker powers into my mouth one at a time.
I found two recipes of interest:Since the pickled version looked like a lot less work, that’s the way I went.
The recipe called for a pound of fruit and little research indicated that that would be about 24 cumquats. I had that many! Woo hoo.
I followed the directions, cutting them up and removing the seeds …. more trees in my future I do believe!
And in the end I had 1.5 pints of pickled cumquats.
Silly me sterilized pint jars in stead of 1/2 pints, which would have been oh so much more convenient, but such is life.
EDIT:
first taste—eye watering. The cumquats along with the vinegar is way too much.
More sugar please!!
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
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Karson
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posted 176 days ago
Very nice.
Good eating
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MsDebbieP
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posted 176 days ago
I hope it is delicious
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
Radicalfarmergal
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posted 175 days ago
The cumquat marmalade sounds delicious. My cousin has a cumquat tree in her living room and the boys love to pop the entire fruit into their mouths when they go to visit her. I will have to show her your recipe and, if I am very lucky, she might share enough of the fruit with us to make some marmalade! Enjoy your pickled cumquats. I hope you both like them.
-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi
MsDebbieP
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posted 175 days ago
I get to taste it later today (it had to sit for a while). I hope it is tasty and then next year I’ll try the marmalade
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
MsDebbieP
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posted 175 days ago
gasp gasp
ok. well I’ve had a bite …
and my eyes are watering
the cumquat along with the vinegar .. really?
More sugar … lots more sugar … way way way more sugar .. please…
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
Radicalfarmergal
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posted 169 days ago
I say, go for the marmalade next time. : )
-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi
MsDebbieP
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posted 169 days ago
haha me too!
that will teach me re: being lazy
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
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posted 103 days ago
Having had a kumquat tree in Florida years back, I was about to ask where you had one planted that would afford you fruit so soon, at your latitude, when I then noticed the thumbnail picture of the tree. Makes more sense! ha ha ….. My next question was going to be what variety so I could perchance find one for my garden/region.
From my memory, definitely more sugar… ha ha ha.
-- .....Rick, south Sweden
MsDebbieP
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posted 103 days ago
can’t help you with variety .. the label just says “kumquat”.
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
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posted 103 days ago
and LOTS more sugar! :D
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)