Learning to Enjoy Huckleberries, a Northwest Fruit
If you love cakes and pies loaded with fruit you probably will love huckleberry cakes and pies. Huckleberries, close relatives to blueberries, have long been used in many delicious recipes in the northwestern United States to sweeten desserts and provide seasonal treats. Huckleberries are wild fruits that have not been domesticated. Although some people grow huckleberries in their gardens they don’t taste the same as the wild mountain huckleberries.
To really enjoy the huckleberry cuisine of the northwest you may want to plan a road-trip through states like Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Each region has its own share of huckleberry enthusiasts but most of the huckleberry packagers seem to be based in Idaho and Montana. The boutique companies sell gourmet huckleberry foods through their own stores, over the Internet, or through larger store chains. You can usually find huckleberry products in state retail outlets that feature state products.
Buying huckleberries on the Internet is not that difficult. You can find good huckleberry product stores in several ways but there is nothing quite like the stores that are recommended by the best of the huckleberries Web sites. You’ll want to look at several different companies, of course, but often the prices are very similar and the recipes are not too far apart in taste and texture.
Huckleberries make great gifts and if you want to share northwestern cuisine and foods with friends and relatives in other parts of the country then be sure you get some huckleberry jams, huckleberry syrups, huckleberry honeys, and huckleberry cakes to mail off. You’ll also find a variety of huckleberry chocolates and candies that can be absolutely delicious.
