# I went totally nuts at the fruit stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038 "2005-09-10T23:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/1 "2005-09-10T23:43:42Z")
I’m just one person… I don’t know what came over me. I bought a half-bushel of apples, and a 1/4 bushel each of peaches and pears. And 6 ears of corn. I barely managed to turn down the 1/4 bushel of prune plums (that is a metric asston of prune plums!). Everything looked so nice and yummy. I couldn’t stop myself. I guess if you’re going to lose control, better to do it on peaches than oeros. Let the applesauce making begin! ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/2 "2005-09-10T23:47:48Z")
What in the world made you turn down the plums? Buy the plums before the pears! Pears are yuck, grainy and make your teeth hurt. I can’t wait until apple season hits it stride. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/3 "2005-09-10T23:56:43Z")
Now don’t you go encouraging me! 1/4 bushel of prune plums is like 50 of those suckers. I might actually eat a couple dozen peaches and I like the pears for pear-blackberry crumble. And fresh nice pears aren’t grainy at all. They’re crispy and nice. (I also like hard tart apples, if that helps you see my mindset). I hope my 1/2 bushel of Greenings holds me till the Winesaps and Yorks come out. I really like me some apples. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/4 "2005-09-10T23:56:44Z")
Peach preserves are yummy, and peaches, once peeled and pitted, freeze well. Of course, once they’re frozen, they get a little mushy, but still make excellent cobbler. In fact, here’s a too-easy-to-believe cobbler recipe: 1 C all-purpose flour 1 C milk 1 C sugar 2 C fruit cinnamon sugar for after it’s baked. Mix the flour, milk and sugar. Put the fruit in a greased casserole dish, pour the batter over it. The batter will sink down, but fear not! Like the South, it will rise again! Bake about 30-40 minutes at 350, until the topping is nice and golden and the kitchen smells so good that you want to rip the door off the oven and begin cramming piping hot cobbler into your mouth with your bare hands. While the cobbler is still hot, sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Of course, if you want _true_ decadence, you can’t go wrong by putting a scoop of good vanilla ice cream on top while it’s still nice and warm. Oh, and leftovers make fine breakfast, if you’re not dietarily opposed to that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/5 "2005-09-10T23:59:59Z")
_drool_ Thanks for the recipe. I shall use it, oh, yes I shall. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/6 "2005-09-11T00:05:27Z")
Ooooh, and so will I! Peach cobbler… _drool_ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/7 "2005-09-11T01:42:12Z")
We buy bananas by the boatload. However, I’m the only one in the family who will eat them when they start to turn brown. I’m up to eating two a day. Have you seen dinosaur eggs? They’re kind of of plum/peach apricot. Big, juicy and sweet. My father’s downfall is Bing cherries. He’ll eat a pound or two at a sitting. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/8 "2005-09-11T01:43:52Z")
[del]apricot[/del] replace with _hybrid_ ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/9 "2005-09-11T01:49:36Z")
get a food dehydrator and make the bounty last all winter. You can also make pear sauce and peach and apple and pear butter. Or freeze things in convienient amounts for future desserts. I’m jealous. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/10 "2005-09-11T01:53:28Z")
Sorry to keep flogging this, but they’re actually a cross between plums and apricots called [pluots](http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000562.html). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/11 "2005-09-11T02:10:02Z")
That’s better than going totally fruity at the nut stand. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/12 "2005-09-11T02:17:05Z")
You can parboil the plums and can them in light syrup. That’s what my mom used to do. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/13 "2005-09-11T02:24:49Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Peach preserves are yummy, and peaches, once peeled and pitted, freeze well. Of course, once they’re frozen, they get a little mushy, but still make excellent cobbler. In fact, here’s a too-easy-to-believe cobbler recipe: > 1 C all-purpose flour > 1 C milk > 1 C sugar > 2 C fruit > cinnamon sugar for after it’s baked. > > Mix the flour, milk and sugar. Put the fruit in a greased casserole dish, pour the batter over it. The batter will sink down, but fear not! Like the South, it will rise again! Bake about 30-40 minutes at 350, until the topping is nice and golden and the kitchen smells so good that you want to rip the door off the oven and begin cramming piping hot cobbler into your mouth with your bare hands. While the cobbler is still hot, sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Of course, if you want _true_ decadence, you can’t go wrong by putting a scoop of good vanilla ice cream on top while it’s still nice and warm. > > Oh, and leftovers make fine breakfast, if you’re not dietarily opposed to that sort of thing. LOVELY! Will try at once. Or soonish anyways. If’n I substitute other fruits, will that still cook up nice? Thinking of blackberries, dewberries, apricots, mixed apples and pears, mixed peaches and apricots, etc… ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/14 "2005-09-11T02:43:53Z")
**norinew** ’s Recipe: Very, exceedingly, super yummy, and if there is any left by morning, it will be a lovely way to start my day, diet be damned 😃 Thank you for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-totally-nuts-at-the-fruit-stand/321038/15 "2005-09-12T17:29:03Z")
Update: I’ve freezer packed 3 cobbler recipe’s worth of peaches (2 cups peaches/1 cup superlight (10%) syrup each). Set aside the rest for eating. A friend is bringing over her canning rig and I’m planning on canning about 4-5 pints pears and about the name number of apples. That will take care of a good number of the pears. I’ll also probably do some apple pie filling for Xmas gifts. I’ll take stock again after that. 🙂 Yay for the fruit stand!