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Posted on October 14, 2008 By Tom 2 Comments on Scuppernongs
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Scuppernongs

There are few foods that evoke such intense memories – the warm days of early autumn, climbing under the vines to find the ripe fruit, feeling as much as tasting the sweet juice and ripe pulp.

My Grandmother Ellenberg had huge scuppernong vines growing on her farm. I can just barely remember them, but I do remember that to a small boy there was an entirely new world underneath those vines. The scuppernongs themselves were just an added bonus to a universe of play and discovery.

Tonight Glynda brought by some scuppernongs that my mom had brought from our own homeplace in Gray Court. Over dinner I learned that the vines at our house were grown from cuttings taken from those original vines down at my grandmother’s long-gone home. That made the eating of them that much more special.

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2 thoughts on “Scuppernongs”

  1. Ken C says:
    October 15, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    A friend said, after visitng the farm in PK, that “scuppernongs are fruit for the gods.” A good muscadine can be up there too, but the bronze scuppernong is truly a joy to eat.

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  2. Duck Hunter says:
    October 15, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    never heard of them. Looks like a big grape.

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