While we were on a hike...
...out to Hidden Lake
We decided that we wanted to pick some fresh huckleberries.
The problem was, we didn't exactly know which ones huckleberries were...
We gazed at the different berries, and even sampled a few. Then we asked another hiker, but the berries he told us were huckleberries, tasted woody and sour!
As we went along the road we looked and tried some different types. And then we found one that looked like a blueberry and tasted like a huckleberry! Hurrah! We started filling our bag...
We had several people pass by and ask us what we were picking. I heard one person comment to her group "Those people knew what they were doing - they came prepared to pick huckleberries".
I felt that we had progressed rather quickly from novices...
to experts!
We put them on our cold cereal the next morning.
They were delicious!
Bisceglia Tour Tip #2: If it don't taste like a huckleberry, it ain't a huckleberry, so don't go trusting yer feller hikers too much.
Bisceglia Tour Tip #2: If it don't taste like a huckleberry, it ain't a huckleberry, so don't go trusting yer feller hikers too much.
6 comments:
Thank you for the tip! I'm glad you all lived through it! ;)
Aren't the huckleberries in OR red? We had some friends that had (what they thought) were huckleberries... and they were red! :)
A good contest is to see who can eat a perfectly green berry without flinching! :D We did that with blackberries!
~Bethany
Well, to me they look exactly like mini blueberries (with reddish undertones) and they are SWEET! If yours are really bright red, I would be a little worried....
But, I guess you haven't died yet!
Sarah
P.S. We do have red thimbleberries around here that are like raspberries.
Well, yes, we are still living... I'm going to look the berries up in our berry book. Now I'm wondering just what we ate.
Yes, the huckleberries around here are red :). I guess there's a difference between Oregon Huckleberries and Montana Huckleberries. Next time you all come around our place we'll show you some of ours, but they don't grow as well this time of year, so the few we find will be old and withered :-/. Better hurry before they're all gone! ;)
Yes, that's what I found in our book, Daniel.
Although wikapedia has a picture of Oregon huckleberries that are the same color as the Montana ones!
I think huckleberries come in two different colors~ at least that's what our berry book showed!
~Shiloh
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