Huckleberry Hunt
By amy ross. Filed in food |Tags: donuts, farmers market, food, huckleberry, idaho
I’d only been here a few days when I first heard about them: Too-Good-to-Be-Missed huckleberry donuts for sale at the Moscow Farmer’s Market! Be sure to get there early!
Early? There was my first problem. I have this long-established propensity toward sleeping in on Saturday mornings (which is when the market meets). So I flubbed it my first weekend. But the next week, I got to Moscow bright and early (okay, around 11) and followed my nose to the stand producing tiny, delectable donuts hot out of the oil.
I bought myself half a dozen mini-donuts sprinkled with vanilla powdered sugar, and they were meltingly delicious. But…
Where were the huckleberries? Were they hidden imperceptibly in the batter? Was there some magic word I was supposed to say? Was “huckleberry” simply some irrelevant brand name?
These are huckleberries. They look a bit like blueberries, and I can’t tell you what they taste like because I’ve never had ‘em! But I can tell you they are the state fruit of Idaho, so I must certainly try them at some point. But thanks to my laziness, I seem to have just missed the season! I went back the following week to ask the donutlady about the huckleberries, and she said there wouldn’t be any more this year.
In the meanwhile, perhaps I can content myself with some local huckleberry syrup.
Thursday, September 17th 2009 at 1:03 pm |
for some reason I’m now hungry.
Thursday, September 17th 2009 at 6:46 pm |
oh! and then the other night (maybe it was last night…) you were going to eat huckleberries and found them to be blackberries instead, right? I love any kind of berries…yum yum! on the night that D. proposed to me, I ate a wonderful dish that involved salmon with oregon blackberries and hazelnuts. but the blackberries, omg. the branches were as thick as my wrist sometimes! and dangerous!
Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 5:58 pm |
Are they like the cider donuts around here? As in, there doesn’t actually seem to be any cider involved in making them (to the best of my knowledge) but they’re very good to eat with a glass of cider!
Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 7:16 pm |
I’m not sure, but my friend seemed to imply that the cider goes in the batter. I stopped by the stand today, and they said they didn’t have the cider donuts yet, but would next week. I’ll keep you updated!