Thoughts on Huckleberry pie in July

Back in the early 1960s we had a coal company half a twin .The Original Lehigh sold there houses .Heated by coal stove for cooking also .In early July we 5 kids would head to the nearby woods to pick huckleberry .I mean it took a half million berrys for pie .Next day mom and my 3 sisters would start making the dough .Now imagine its July And The House with the Coal Range Baking Was Like 150 Degrees i Swear .But an hour later There were 4 pies Hot Dripping H berry .I had run to Amos Hedash little store To Get A half Gallon Ofe Ice Cream to put on top of the sliced pie .You talk about heaven on earth .These Huckleberry Are The Small H berry Not The Store H berrys as Big as Marbles .Sweet Memorys from Jack.

Sweet indeed Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanx for another one---

Is that anything like elderberry pie?

Haven't had sheep chit berry pie in a long time. Never called them huckleberries.

I could feel the heat of that kitchen Jack!

Good stuff, Jack. That's a lot of berry picking for 4 pies! Nothing better than ice cream on top. When I was a kid, my family picked wild berries a few times in remote areas in Sullivan and Bradford counties, Pa. My parents called them gooseberries, not sure if that's what they were. Very seedy but good. A little bitter but nothing sugar couldn't fix. Those various berry patches were real popular with the big furry critters as well. I've got a few Sullivan county bear stories. My mom would make a couple of pies with them at the hunting camp. I think we still had the old coal cook stove at that time. So many more wild areas back then.

We used to have a lot of raspberry bushes here around the house and nearby along the roads. Never made pies but lots on cereal and pancakes. The stinkin' spotted lantern flies wiped out almost all of the raspberry bushes. They also killed off almost all of the wild grape vines on our property. Those tiny grapes would bring in grouse, Turkeys and deer into the yard in the Fall. Still have a few deer. They just chomped off most of the flowers in the garden.

these h berry are prevalent in the coal regions .Small Low Bush berrys Another form of Blueberrys.Not the Food Store Variety .jack

Jack,Many Thanx! Once again,You've fired up the "Memory Pump" and brought some Great Stuff" back up for a review and a smile! Keep Em' Coming,My Friend!!

Tough ladies.

Having run a coal range in hot weather I'm sure it was brutally hot in that kitchen getting the range hot enough and for long enough to bake four pies !!!! You have to crank up the firebed because the oven won't get hot enough to do pie baking at cruising temperatures.

And that's why some people had a "summer kitchen" by moving the range out onto a back porch once hot weather arrived.

Paul