The Muscadines are ready

Today I picked a gallon of muscadines. I could of got more but didn't have a tall enough ladder. Monday I will go back with a tarp and some rope to shake the vines. This is a volunteer vine coming out of the compose pile at my parents home. Next to it are banana trees that are volunteer also. I would love to get the dirt out of the compost pile but the yard man threw branches in it for years and its a tangled mess. When I got home I cooked them down to make the juice. I I cooked the grapes down with a little bit of water then passed them through a food mill then strained them with a chinois. It was thick after it boiled with the sugar. Boy it tasted good off the frozen plate. It made 9 pints. I can't wait to eat those biscuits in the am.Attachment 245592
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Oh man that makes me want to whip up a batch of biscuts!!

Mine just starting to turn

Man, that brings back memories.....when I was kid, I would go down in the swamps by the river and get bags full and mama would make jelly....it was the best.....

Looks great Don! I need to find me a place to pick some muscadines. We would freeze the grapes and then take them out and let them start to thaw and eat the grapes. Great on a hot summer day! Makes an excellent jelly too as you already know.

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Originally Posted by prefers shiners

Man, that brings back memories.....when I was kid, I would go down in the swamps by the river and get bags full and mama would make jelly....it was the best.....

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PS When will the wild ones be ready? I have been wanting to make a batch of wine.

Dwayne are you going to be at Tractor Supply tomorrow? I might go by to check it out. We can discuss where I have seen Muscadines.

Oh by the way those biscuits were good this morning. Only way it could of been better was if they were scratch biscuits. Hungry Jack Flaky had to do the job.

Brought back memories here too. Grandma Irma had me fetch em and she made the jelly. Oh , I've been chasing grandmas biscuits my whole life. Good memories. Thx for this post.

What do you mean when you say "volunteer"? I don't think that I've ever eaten muscadine jelly. I have had the wine, though. :crazy:

It came up in its own from the vines we pruned off of 2 other vines in the yard that were thrown in the compost bin. The vines that are cared for and fertized every year do not produce but this one produces a couple of gallons of grapes every year.

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PS When will the wild ones be ready? I have been wanting to make a batch of wine.

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I don't remember.....that was about 65 years ago when I lived in Mississippi.....also had a huge area of wild plum trees that I would rob.....the yellow and the red ones.....mom made plum jelly also.....

Up here in Northwest LA the wild muscadines start getting ready about the last week of August. I have 29 cultivated vines on trellises (about 13 different varieties). The first ones to get ripe are about a week away. Some will still be producing through October. I love those things!

I love muscadines too. I like to do like Dwayne and freeze them. They make a great summer time snack by letting them defrost a little and pull the peel back to eat the still frozen insides. Very refreshing. I might have to go visit Eddie Romero in New Iberia and pick me a few gallons. He has a bunch of vines which get loaded each year. I think they are 10 bucks a gallon which I think is fair. I usually get 3 or 4 gallons and if he isn't working he'll help out.
"gene"