{"id":2163,"date":"2016-07-12T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2016-07-12T08:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:11:16","slug":"red-huckleberry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Red Huckleberry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on picking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwflowers.com\/flower\/rubus-ursinus\">dewberries<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwflowers.com\/flower\/rubus-leucodermis\">blackcaps<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/toandos.org\/\">Toandos Peninsula<\/a> last weekend. I know of a good spot for both there.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/mechanical-malfunction-closes-sr-104-hood-canal-bridge-2\/\">fate intervened<\/a> and ruled that option out, so I went to a revegetating clear cut where I have noticed a lot of berry plants before in the Green Mountain State Forest instead. That resulted in a different harvest, as most of the berries I found there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwflowers.com\/flower\/vaccinium-parvifolium\">red huckleberries<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a new one for me. Oh, I&#8217;ve snacked on them many times, but never set out to harvest them and bring a quantity home with me. The jam turned out great: I followed the &#8220;low sugar&#8221; recipe, using a tad more than the recommended amount of sugar because the berries are naturally tart. For the same reason, I opted not to add any lemon juice to the recipe, figuring there was plenty of natural acidity to set the pectin.<\/p>\n<p>The result was tangy and flavorful, just like the berries it was made from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on picking dewberries and blackcaps on the Toandos Peninsula last weekend. I know of a good spot for both there. But fate intervened and ruled that option out, so I went to a revegetating clear cut where I have noticed a lot of berry plants before in the Green Mountain State Forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}