Red Huckleberry

Red huckleberries are the lesser known of the huckleberry plants.  Bright red, they look too good to be true on the tall bushes that they grow on - some are tarter than others depending on the bush location and level of ripeness, but all are delicious! 



Red Huckleberry Bush

We have a 1/2 dozen large red huckleberry bushes growing across our property.  We started getting ripe berries around July 4th and most berries will be ripe by the end of July.  The berries are very bright and look like salmon eggs, it would be interesting to try fishing with them to see if they worked as bait. 

My boys and I collected a about two cups full from one large bush that ripened before all the others, and that was after eating more that 1/2 of the berries as we picked. 



Red Huckleberries

Not enough berries for Jam, so we made a red huckleberry crisp with what we did not eat:

Recipe:

2 cups of berries
1/2 cup of white sugar
1 1/2 cup of flour
1 cup of brown sugar
1 stick of butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix berries and white sugar, put on bottom of pan.

Mix flour, brown sugar and blend in the stick of butter until you get a crumbly type texture.  Crumble on top of the berries

Cook in oven for 20-30 minutes until the berries are bubbling through the crumble mix.

Enjoy! 




Red Huckleberry Crisp