Second Helpings: Cooking With Haskap

Second Helpings: Cooking With Haskap, by Loretta Bors and Lil Sawatzky

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Second Helpings: Cooking With Haskap, by Lil Sawatzky and Loretta Bors

In the same fashion that the haskap berry is new to our tables, so likewise is a haskap cookbook new to our kitchens...making it most likely the first of its kind in the world!  And being so made it a challenge in its own right to produce.  Since it is still a relatively unknown fruit, a cookbook that highlights the joys of using it is by definition difficult to write.  Not only are recipes difficult to find, but the inherent puzzle of actually finding out how other ingredients interact with haskap, or even of proving the submitted recipes, are themselves at the root of this challenge.  Add to this their desire to accommodate gluten-free and low-/no-sugar diets and Loretta Bors and Lil Sawatzky have done a wonderful job.  Illustrated and with fun-facts added, their haskaptions bring recipes to life on the page, even as the results of these recipes will being flavour and zest to your fare!

Its contents include: Appetizers/Sauces/Jams, Main Dishes, Side Dishes, Desserts, and Methods/Preserving/Helpful Hints.  There is a forward by James Dawson. 49 pp.; spiral bound.

The cost is $15 + shipping, and you can order a copy by contacting Loretta Bors at: lorettabors@hotmail.com

Bon appetite!

Haskap Cookbook Nearing Publishing

Loretta Bors is finishing up a Haskap Cookbook in the next few days and plans to print and sell the 1^st edition at the upcoming Haskap Day.  If you have any recipes you’d like her to consider, please email them to her in the next couple days: Loretta Bors (lorettabors@hotmail.com).  While this will be a quick print, she intends to get the book published and distributed widely. She was part of the team that won a Gormand Cookbook Award in 2013 for Cooking with Cherries on the Prairies.

She will be acknowledging all contributors and can include websites, company names and other contact info if you want.

A Call For Haskap Recipes

Loretta Bors and Lil Sawatsky are continuing to gather recipes for a Haskap Cookbook.  Whether it’s jams, preserves, juices, syrups, tarts, cakes, pies, liqueurs, wines, or melomels, they would like to hear from you!  Go ahead and share with the world the ways you have come to best love this delightful fruit.  No recipe is too simple or complex.  Attribution will be given along with a link to your website/blog at your request.

To enquire or contribute please contact Loretta at: lorettabors@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

Haskap Day - U of SK 2013 (6)

Afternoon Presentations

Bob Bors - U of SK breeding program update
James Dawson - Neutriceutical/Phytochemical discussion
Loretta Bors - Development of cookbook
Curtis Braaten - Raised bed planting
Cory Sheffield (unable to attend) - Pollination Study
Hamish Graham - Hydroplanting
Haskap Canada - Update
Open Forum

*Anyone with recipes for haskap and would like them included in the cookbook is encouraged to contact Loretta Bors (lorettaborsathotmaildotcom)or Lil Sawatzky (lilymaeatsaskteldotcom).