On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard
Joyce Bupp
Odds and ends.
Official fall arrives this week,
noted in teeny calendar letters
but much more noticeable just by
venturing outside. Days are being
squeezed by later sunrises and
earlier dusk. Summer bright
greens and primary colors are
giving way to hues of golds and
orange and a few early bright red
leaves. Plant foliage is fading as
seeds mature on everything from
fields of yellow com to fluff-filled
pods topping milkweed stalks.
But odds and ends of summer
linger on for some last minute at
tention, to be squirrelled away for
mid-winter enjoyment.
Tomatoes parked around here
in several places are in final
stages of ripening. A marketbas
ket full sits on the basement
porch, a few especially nice ones
have made it to the kitchen coun
ter and a dozen or so small ones
landed on the deck table enroute
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from a sheltered stalk grown at
the calf nursery. Extended peri
ods of rain and cloudiness chal
lenged even the most determined
gardeners this year and left our
veggie patch with one of its poor
est-ever, tomato crops.
So our dwindling number of
orangish-tinted ones are snatched
off the stalks before dampness,
cooling nights, bugs, and slugs do
them in. With a little luck, one
more batch of canned tomatoes
may find its way to the empty
space on the jar shelves, only a
about half as replenished as last
year this time. Good thing there
are a few carryovers.
Purple plum trees planted a
few years ago in the meadow
yielded abundantly this year. But
few of them matured, tumbling
from the trees from an insect or
fungal affliction. Enough odds
and ends of scruffy plums were
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salvaged though far from pic
ture pretty to cook up a batch
of jam. Cosmetic appearance,
fortunately, is pretty much irrele
vant once the fruit is smashed,
mashed, and boiled.
A portion of the jam will head
across the meadow to the grand
kids, whose favorite lunchtime
sandwich fixin’s lean heavily to
ward peanut butter and jelly.
Odds and ends gathering
usually result in a basket sugges
tive of that classic Thanksgiving
symbol, the cornucopia, with its
assortment of goodies overflow
ing out. One recent pass through
the patch filled my basket with a
small watermelon, a couple pep
pers, a few oversized redbeets,
more of those orangish tomatoes
and a handful of parsley to dry.
Such odds and ends assort
ments often stir memories of
mom. Right about mid-Septem
ber, she would corral tail-end
produce from her garden any
thing from carrots to giant limas
beans add to it a few pur
chased items, perhaps some cau
liflower, process it in a sweet-sour
pickling brine and turn it into a
batch of “chow-chow.”
Anyone have a clue how a mix
ture of pickled, bite-sized as
sorted vegetables ever came to
acquire the name “chow-chow?”
I’ve always wondered.
Despite their usual dislike of
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so burdened with clusters of pur
ple Concords that the support
structure partially collapsed. So
when the peanut butter-and-jeliy
crew showed up at our door last
week, laden with containers of
fragrant, juicy grapes, we dug
into the family recipe box for the
directions for making Grape
Ade.
The Grape Ade “receipt” was
shared by a dear friend several
years ago, a tasty and incredibly
easy way to preserve more of
those lingering odds and ends of
summer’s bounty. Grape Ade is
made by putting a heaping cup
ful of stemmed purple grapes
into each quart canning jar want
ed, adding a half-cup of sugar
per quart (more for sweeter
juice), and filling the jar with
boiling water, leaving about a
half-inch expansion space at the
top. Fasten lids and process the
jars for five minutes in boiling
water.
Sugar still visible in the bottom
of the jars after processing will
dissolve as the juice has a few
days to develop to its full flavor.
Sometimes I stretch a quart after
opening with a little more sweet
ener and water.
Antiquers, yard-salers, and
crafters are legendary for scour
ing sales and second-hand shops
for odds and ends to convert into
attractive, useful and sometimes
valuable alternative products.
Some of us just focus more on
scavening odds and ends for our
stomachs.
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