Thursday, September 18, 2008

PYO-Season

It's again PYO-season in New England and recently I have been to an orchard with a few prunes trees for picking.


I was so happy because this is a rare treat in Massachusetts. In Austria we had about 15 prune trees in our garden and didn't know what to do with the hundreds of pounds of prunes every year aside from making our own "schnapps". Here, I'm paying $4/pound of prunes, if I find them in a store at all. I don't know why this is, because they are really easy to grow and the trees are not very sensitive to heat or cold.

I picked more than 10 lbs and first thing after coming home was for me to bake a delicious prune cake based on a traditional Austrian recipe:



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