I bought a clearance $3 grape plant that ended up being Muscadine and it has thrived beautifully here in Texas especially since I planted it and forgot about it until it came back the next year. It has been giving more and more grapes every year although I have to fight my chickens to get some for myself.
South Georgia here. Having to fight your chickens over your grapes has to be the most southern comment said here. Let me know if you need help with the chickens. Those muscadines are totally worth it.
Hello, Emmy. I am a pharmacy technician. I work in an understaffed pharmacy in a small town that fills more prescriptions per week than actual households in the town. Today, I learned one of my kindest customers is now battling cancer. I want you and all the lovelies who follow you to know that it's the positivity of this channel that reminds me that this is the sort of thing that keeps humanity itself going.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Wishing you & your customer both the best. May your customer heal & recover, and may you find peace of mind & comfort. Thank you for doing what you do as well! Pharmacists teach us all so much & have a huge hand in saving lives. We would be truly lost without your service. Bless you! Also, thanks for spreading kindness & positivity with messages like this!
Sending healing thoughts to your customer, and positive MOJO to you. Carry on. You provide a wonderful service, and you are clearly very dedicated. Love and light!
My aunt had muscadine vines when I was growing up. We were taught to break the skin then suck out the fruit...I remember thinking that the skins would upset my stomach if I ate too many, so when Emmy popped the whole thing in her mouth I was like NoooOoooo! Lol. It's funny, the things from childhood that stick. :)
We used to have muscadine wars in our backyard 😂 If you popped them out of the skin before you threw them, they would stick to whoever or whatever you hit!!
There is a pie that is made from the muscadine skins. They get tender as it bakes, and it is delicious. All you have to do to separate the skin from the grape is pinch the ripe grape at the end that is smooth. The grape pops out from the stem end.
@Ashton Alfredohell no, not on this wholesome channel. at least make their join dates a month apart. like shii, look at those sketchy names too. even the free name generator failed you. like tf is “nathan dillon”? you’d get BULLIED
Muscadines grow wild here in Mississippi. My sweet granny used to pick them and make her own jelly. Then I would give little jars to all my teachers at Christmas. Precious memories! Thanks for sharing, Emmy! ☺️
The "Fruity Fruits" series has been one of my absolute most favorites! I love all of Emmy's videos, but I have truly learned so much & been so inspired to try things that I may have been either afraid to try or simply thought were unappealing. After hearing Emmy explain the taste & textures, how they're grown & where, as well as what & what not to do while eating certain fruits, I have gone out & tried several. I can truly say I have not been disappointed yet! Her explanations & descriptions are truly delightful, as well as accompanied by her lovely personality. Watching any Emmy video is always a pleasure, but I do L♡VE Fruity Fruits & all the knowledge I have obtained this far! So, Thank you for that Emmy & keep the fruits coming & I will gladly keep eating them! 😊💜
my sister and I used to go muscadine hunting in the woods near our house in Georgia. so good on a hot summer day! we also had some wild blueberries I the same area.
I grew up picking these in my grandmas yard and eating them in autumn. I always stick the whole thing in my mouth then gently bite down so the inside squishes out, then spit out the peel and the seeds altogether. Muscadines and scuppernongs are quite possibly my favorite fruit of all time. They’re sour and sweet and juicy and just….heaven on earth. I’ve been desperate to grow my own plant since I bought my own home. Hoping this is the year! Edited to add: I found your channel in the middle of grocery shopping after craving some fruit, opening my delivery app to see and not know what pipino melon was. And now I’m hooked on fruity fruits. Such is life. 🤷🏻♀️❤️
Muscadine and scuppernong grapes are everywhere in North Carolina. You can go to vineyards and pick your own like strawberries. They give me very fond memories of Autumn. When I was a kid my Grandfather owned several large grape vines across the road from me and we could just go over there and feast. They smell so good. They are best when they are super ripe, like right before getting rotten when they have a super sweet and juicy taste and almost like a slight wine fermentation. Speaking, of Muscadine and scuppernong wine is wonderful and my favorite wine of all time. How I ate them was biting the end and the pulp center pops out of the hole (at the end where the stem was). Some people don't eat the peel, but I do. You then eat the pulp, separating the seeds from it with your mouth and teeth and spit them out as you go.
I have never been lucky enough to try them. I am in Indiana, so I am guessing that I am a bit too far north & haven't been lucky enough to cross their path yet. I am a grape fanatic though, any & all kinds... So, I have no doubt I would absolutely adore them. I did read however that the skin is crazy full of antioxidants! So, you are definitely doing it right by eating them. I read the seeds were quite nutritious as well, but it appears that everyone in this thread says they spit them out. I was hoping you could fill me in, do they just taste bad? Or are they just too big to swallow? Or is it just general practice to spit them out? Just quite curious & intrigued. I'm ready to travel south just to go hunt some down because they sound so delicious!! 😍🤣
I live in Goldsboro NC and we had a HUGE scuppernong vine all my life and now the house I live in has them growing wild ALL over my back yard. We love them.
@@Glitterqueen08 slice in half and remove seeds, which are large and easy to remove. toss with about 2 tablespoons olive oil, tablespoon of balsamic vinegar and optional 2 sprigs rosemary. roast 30 minutes at 425. yum!
If you don't mind me asking, what area do you live in?...I am in Indiana & have never seen them before. I'm guessing I'm a bit too far north, but I would really love to try them. Any suggestions on where I may be able to come across some? I also am curious where they are most popular in case I can't find any until I do some traveling? Thanks. 😊
I grew up picking and eating muscadines. All you do you pop/squeeze the inside (don’t eat the outside) in your mouth and spit the seeds out. There’s a Folgers coffee container full of muscadines my mom picked in the fridge right now. Love them. Make some muscadine wine! It’s so good.
I grew up on muscadines and scuppernongs. My grandmother made jelly out of them every year. I used to beg her to let me take a jar home . She always did and I have one of the empty jars on my side table right now. This video made me happy.
I live in Scotland and one fruit my nana absolutely loved are ‘damsons’ its a plum sub-species which is absolutely delicious!! I don’t know if you could find them in the states but might be worth looking for 😊
I'm a lifelong Oregonian and I've never had a Muscadine grape, but last night I just made grape jelly out of our backyard grapes for the first time and was glad to see that it doesn't appear that I made any errors in the process! Will probably pop open a jar for QC purposes soon anyway...especially since there's still TONS of grapes still in need of using!
my grandfather loved these - he called them muskydimes. he grew them every single year without fail and made batches and batches of jelly and wine for the grandkids.
I must admit, I have started eating toast and jam again after many years, directly due to watching your videos!! I buy different types at Ocean State Job Lot, along with unknown different countries other foods again due to you! One of my recent favorites is Lingdonberry Jam from Denmark! So Thank you for making me step out of my traditional eating habits and try some delicious foods!
How was the Lingonberry jam? I have never tried that either, but would love to! Emmy has also helped me step out of my food comfort zone. She truly does a great service to taste buds everywhere! 🙂
I live in Tennessee and growing up I always remember walking over to my grandparents house to eat muscadines straight off the vine. This past summer my grandfather passed away and I’ve been away at school since early August. I’ve been kinda homesick and this video just made me smile so much. It reminded me of some of my favorite memories. Muscadines are one of my favorite fruits not only because they are tasty but because of the wonderful thoughts I get as well. You should definitely try making muscadine wine! You should also try Polk salad :)
I was born and raised in georgia and my grandfather used to always have these in his garden. He even made this really delicious wine with them. I was way too young when i drank it, too. LOL 85 Years old and he's still going strong. Idk if he still has them, but he definitely still does gardening.
Emmy! I grew up calling these Bullet grapes! My favorite way to eat them is to lightly bite them where they connect to the stem and the pressure will pop the fruit out! (The really ripe ones are full and firm but still soft enough to let the grapes juices move around) my favorite part of the grape is the little bit of juice that's sitting between the fruit and the skin. Its AMAZING. Be careful eating the skins, they can make your mouth all itchy!!
I just discovered these grapes this summer. They're absolutely delicious. They taste like a mix of a grape, peach, kiwi, and plum all mixed together. It's great!
🤣... I can say that I have done so myself on occasion! And if there are apple butter packets, any sort of restriction goes out the window! I just can't control myself when it comes to apple butter!!! 😍🍎🍞🍏❤
I love how a lot of your recipes are simple and down to earth foods that we all have either grown up eating, or we continue to eat! They are simple and no fuss recipes that everyone can do! But they are done well. Which is key. The simple things done well. That's what I love. Keep it up!! We all love your recipes. :)
Ahh this brings back fond childhood memories my grandmother had a lot of muscadine grapes that grew in her backyard. My cousins and I would eat them all the time and she also made wine with them.
I've seen those a couple of years ago in the market and it. was. amazing! I loved it! I don't mind the pits, having grown up with seeded grapes. You won't chomp into them once your mouth 'knows' where they are.
Omg Emmy! Muscadines are so good! I grew up eating them here in NC. And Muscadine wine is my favorite! Duplin makes an inexpensive muscadine wine that’s delicious!
Oh this jelly looks so good... thanks for all the info Emmy! 💖 Try not to use the same utensil to spread on your toast and put back in the jelly jar to either get more jelly or even worse put some back because it contaminants your jelly and will spoil much easier. Use a spoon to drop some on top of your toast and then spread with your knife. If you need more use the spoon in the jelly to drop more on top of your toast. Try to be careful not to get too much but if you do maybe share with another household member... don’t put any back that’s already been mixed with toast crumbs or butter. I learned from experience. Too much work to have the jar go bad. 🍇
My great grandma lived in Mississippi and did home canning from fruit and vegetables she grew in her garden, including muscadine jelly. Even when I went through a phase where I didn't like traditional grape jelly, I always still loved muscadine jelly. Living in Ohio, it isn't the easiest thing to find, but a few places have gotten it for my family through special orders.
These grow all over Georgia, I remember eating these from my neighbors vine as a kid. I pinch it, spit out the seeds. And then eat the skin! When they’re really ripe it’s sweet and tangy and a lil chewy. Not bitter at all considering it’s a peel 🥰
I have read vineyards spray a lot against "Downy mildew", a fungal disease. The good news is that American grapes are immune to "Downy mildew". So if I had more money than I know what to do with I would buy a vineyard in Champagne and grow those grapes there. To make wine without fungicide.
Emmy, in the Southern Appalachians where I grew up, the muscadine vines grow rampant in the hills and valleys. The vines can get to be 5 or 6 inches in diameter and grow all the way up to the top of the tallest trees. We would find muscadine vines on the hillsides and cut the vine loose from the ground, and back up the side of the hill while holding onto the muscadine vine, when you get as far up the hill as you can, you jump up and grap higher up on the vine, and swing AWAY AND AROUND the tree it is attached to. Everyone has messed up and swung at full speed into the side of the tree that the vine is growing on, and knocking yourself out, and falling down the tree to the ground, then rolling down the side of the hill. It's fun! When you don't break something. LOL
Just an FYI, you can also use peanut butter on glue residue from labels and let sit a few minutes them wipe off with paper towel. I really love the dissolve labels, thanks for sharing.
I love 💖 those dissolvable labels!! I get large (cheep) rolls of them on amazon. They feel just like ordinary paper labels, but disappear in water! I keep finding new uses for them, from labeling leftovers to plastic storage bins, anywhere you want a temporary label.
Spent most of my summers in my youth on my family’s land in the south picking these and blackberries and bringing them back to my gma so she could make jellies and ice cream out of them. Muscadines are still to this day my favorite fruit and I’m glad more ppl will learn about them through this vid
Just picked these up randomly at Sprouts today because I heard in the grape vine they were good, they had the green variety too, I tried these purple ones and they are SOO good! I prefer Concord grapes over any grapes, in fact if I don’t see concord I don’t usually even eat grapes but these muscadine grapes are extremely tasty!
I’m from Alabama and these grow everywhere near my grandmother’s house. They usually aren’t this big but they’re delicious. Muscadine wine is the best!
I love these. I grew up in South Carolina and every summer I'll pick wild bull grapes from the vines on walks for a nice free snack. They grow EVERYWHERE.
I grew up eating these late every summer from our back yard! I remember climbing to the top of our pergola to get the best grapes and sitting up there with sticky fingers waiting for autumn to come! They grow wild here in NC too!
I grew up on muscadine jelly made by my grandmother - they grew wild on her land out in the country of Deep East Texas. My parents make muscadine wine - have some aged 3 years right now - it's my very favorite homemade wine.
I'm from Alabama, and we had wild muscadines and scuppernongs. I love both. My grandfather had cultivated scuppernong vines in the back yard, and my grandmother used the yield to make jelly. GREAT stuff.
I grew up thinking, based on my parents' pronunciation, that these were "musky- dimes". They were picked wild and made into jelly, eaten exclusively with hot buttered biscuits.
Actually, my mom called them musky-dimes (she's from Arkansas), my dad, from North Mississippi, called them 'skupper-nons', which I later found is actually 'scuppernongs'. (Course if you wanna say it right you have to say 'musky-dahms' and 'skuhppr-nawns'). Apparently a scuppernong is a variety of muscadine. I'm far, far away from all this now, having moved to the UK. I wonder if can mail order muscadine jelly...
Yep, as a kid in East Tennessee these were "musky-dimes". I don't remember many people making jelly from them, but I do remember the talk about "musky-dime" wine. Watching this video awakened some a craving I didn't realize I had. I'm going to have to make a road trip; I'm outside the wild range now.
The wild grapes and the jelly, jams, marmalade and yes the most delicious wine in the world are made from these! We picked them and nibbled away in my youth ,many delicious memories!
I grew up eating these straight from my yard in North GA, along with a ton of wild blackberries. Now as an adult, I've found them in the woods at my new house, and a vine just started growing wild on my fence! So delicious.
Yes, muscadines taste wonderful! If you truly want the best tasting muscading jelly and syrup, you have to go out into the woods and gather them wild. The taste is so much more intense! My Mom use to make the most awesome muscadine syrup. She would basically make jelly but used no sure-jell, she thickened it only with sugar and boiling. She did her jelly the same way. It is so much better tasting if you thicken it only with sugar, and don't use sure-jell. It's more work and time, but the difference is astounding. As far as the syrup goes, I still have old friends that still talk about my Mom's muscadine syrup over her pancakes, when they would spend the night at my house. LOL That's been almost half a century ago. Just google "no sure-jell jelly" BTW, for those who have never tried them, they are much more intensely flavored than Concord grapes, and they have a stronger "musky" taste and smell than Concords do. They are also just lousy with flavonoids.
I recently tried a muscadine grape for the first time and really enjoyed it. It reminded me of wine grapes from my grandmother’s backyard. Those wine grapes were delicious. I don’t typically enjoy grapes, but this is an exception.
Eating these is a skill you acquire with practice. We generally bite the opposite end from where the stem would be, so that the flesh goes into your mouth and leaves the skin behind. Then just bite a hole in the flesh and squeeze the seeds out. It sounds very odd to describe the process but this is the best way to describe it.
Yep. We always just pop the whole grape into our mouth, bite down gently enough to squish the grape and get all of the juice, don't bite that "loogy' deflated eyeball thingy that's in the middle with the seeds in it, it doesn't have any juice, just spit all of that out. Bite down, juice explodes into mouth, suck on the grape a little, than spit everything out. That's the way Southerners do it.
I am from Georgia and love to eat those muscadines! They are so good! You have to spit those seeds out while eating them, but you can always save those seeds and plant them! ☺️
We had these wild growing on my parents property in south Louisiana. Along with blueberries, huckleberries, dewberries, and beauty berries. We had the best jam. And the best wine!
These a re e on my crave list now. I love concord grapes and when she described them to have that flavor, it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. They look as delicious as they are described. Really wish I had some right now...
I had these muscadine grapes for the first time a month ago. Wow... that is what you call a delicious grape. You know the sensation you get when you bite into a sausage? The taut skin rips open as your teeth puncture through the flesh? It’s very similar, as the skin of this grape is thicker. And the flavor is akin to Japanese grape flavored candy. Aromatic, fresh, and delicately sweet. It’s distinct from the typical varieties we have in the US. I got my bag of muscadines from the Vietnamese market.
Hey Emmy, I live in Southwest, Arkansas & this is a yearly southern tradition as they grow wild everywhere here!!! It makes such good jelly & wine! Hope U enjoy yours😋
Foraging for muscadine and making wine is a tradition here. It's delicious. Also, quick tip, to make really clear grape jelly, leave the juice in the refrigerator overnight and in the morning pour off the top of the juice to make the jelly. This lets tartrate crystals come out of the juice and lets any other bits settle to the bottom.
We grow that fruit here in Arkansas and they look great, but I have never eaten the jelly made from them. I have a persimmon tree outside which has fruit on it, but still green and as soon as they are ripe I will be picking them to eat. You must love the grapes you have and will make jelly/jam from the fruit and I hope you are pleased with the taste.
My favorite varieties of Muscadine wine comes from Old South Winery! I'm a transplant to the south and when my husband told me about Muscadine wine. I thought he had lost his mind. Then he brought some home. It was love at first taste.
The muscadines I ate as a child were always the green ones. The vacant lot down the road from my grandmas was overgrown with them when I was a child (before someone bought it and destroyed all the vines! D: ). My siblings and I used to go and eat a ton while filling grocery bags with them. We'd always come back with 2 grocery bags a piece and spoil dinner. Lol. I was very very young then. I bought a muscadine plant when I was diagnosed with my cancer 2 years ago, but it hasn't fruited, yet. Hopefully this will be the year, but I have a hard time getting to it to check it now!
Have you tried coronation (blue) grapes?? I love them, they are so sour! You can just pluck them off their stem which leaves a tiny hole and then suck the middles out because the skin is also very thick, but they are seedless!
Literally was just eating some bullets aka muscadines. Both Green and Purple. Delicious. Many ways to eat them. You can eat the skin if you want (sometimes I do sometimes I don't.) I pop the whole thing in my mouth and chew it around. Then spit the seeds and sometimes the skin. Yummy.
My best friend's Grandparents had a small fruit farm when we were growing up. We would spend all day outside picking fruit and making ourselves "sick" eating these, plums, and black berries during the summers lol. Ohhh the good old days!
"Frosty the Snowman!!" I have OCD and the butter and jelly/jam needs to cover from point to point on toast. I also have other food rules. I can't watch when Emmy doesn't put her butter all over and when she said oh I don't need that much jam. I yelled but you do!! It's ok weird is wonderful. Lol
Frosty the snowman! My Muscadines were loaded this year but the grapes were a little larger than a bb. I will have to cut them back this fall to see if they will do better next year.
I miss them sooo much! We had them grow al over our land when I was a kid in GA , we would go pick them and eat as we played. I have not had one in years but I can still remember the wonderful flavor! I am now going to search the inter webs to see if I can find a place to order some from, because I have not found any here in San Diego.
I checked the Ball company website, that makes most of the jars and rings and lids. They have not needed the lids prewarmed before canning for decades. They changed the material they used for the seal sometime in the '70's. But everyone learns to can by word of mouth, from their grandmother's usually so word still hasn't gotten around that you don't need to do that anymore.
Memories! My great grandmother in Decatur, Mississippi grew these, and even though I haven’t had one in 30 years I can vividly remember the taste. Look up Vivian Howard’s A Chef’s Life show on them. She does some interesting things with them.
Mississippi girl here! Grew up on muscadines fresh from the vine and can say they are my favorite fruit. Muscadine jelly is a must on fresh biscuits with butter and you have to find a bottle of muscadine wine my dear. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Muscadines are my fav!! Have some in the freezer now. And yes, you can eat the skins and the seeds. If you choose not to that's fine. But neither are toxic, nor poisonous. You'll just pass the skin when you have a BM.
You can save the skins and dye fabric a beautiful periwinkle 💓
I love periwinkle. I'll be sure to give it a try Thank you
@@locoemutwo4872 Li Ziqi has a video on the this.
Ah, man, I wished I would've known that, so could've tried dyeing something. I'll have to see if I can get some more...
@@emmymade they sound like they would make some great wine
@@jamesfry8983 There is a company that already sells it. It's called Duplin wine. It's very sweet.
I bought a clearance $3 grape plant that ended up being Muscadine and it has thrived beautifully here in Texas especially since I planted it and forgot about it until it came back the next year. It has been giving more and more grapes every year although I have to fight my chickens to get some for myself.
That's wonderful!!
South Georgia here. Having to fight your chickens over your grapes has to be the most southern comment said here.
Let me know if you need help with the chickens. Those muscadines are totally worth it.
Which part of Texas? Do you know if Houston sells any muscadine plants?
Hello, Emmy. I am a pharmacy technician. I work in an understaffed pharmacy in a small town that fills more prescriptions per week than actual households in the town. Today, I learned one of my kindest customers is now battling cancer. I want you and all the lovelies who follow you to know that it's the positivity of this channel that reminds me that this is the sort of thing that keeps humanity itself going.
Sorry to hear about your customer's situation, hope the person pulls through, all my best regards and wishes to you and your customer.
Wishing the best for your customer!!!
I'm so sorry to hear that. Wishing you & your customer both the best. May your customer heal & recover, and may you find peace of mind & comfort. Thank you for doing what you do as well! Pharmacists teach us all so much & have a huge hand in saving lives. We would be truly lost without your service. Bless you! Also, thanks for spreading kindness & positivity with messages like this!
Cancer is such a terrible thing. I’m currently waiting to find out if my mother has it. It’s one of the most scariest things.
Sending healing thoughts to your customer, and positive MOJO to you. Carry on. You provide a wonderful service, and you are clearly very dedicated. Love and light!
I bite off an end, suck out and spit out the seeds, then eat the rest. Delicious and my favorite fruit and something I look forward to all year long.
Thats how I do it too
My aunt had muscadine vines when I was growing up. We were taught to break the skin then suck out the fruit...I remember thinking that the skins would upset my stomach if I ate too many, so when Emmy popped the whole thing in her mouth I was like NoooOoooo! Lol. It's funny, the things from childhood that stick. :)
That’s exactly how it’s done. Muscadine and scuppernong grapes. Yum!
We used to have muscadine wars in our backyard 😂 If you popped them out of the skin before you threw them, they would stick to whoever or whatever you hit!!
Right....ya don't cut it!! LOL it has to shoot into your mouth.
I have muscadines and strawberries growing wild in my backyard here in Alabama.
I have muscadines,but not strawberries. I'm in Mobile.
Karla Venice wild strawberries are incredible!!!!
i have muscadines in NC
Cool, I’m from Alabama too. And I wish that I had them growing my backyard!!! No one would be able to drag me away from those vines. Lol!!! 😂
I envy you
Pop them in your mouth whole then spit seeds out near a tree. That's how you get new muskidine vines. 👍
I eat the seeds.
Now you, my friend live in the south. Only we know that 😉
There is a pie that is made from the muscadine skins. They get tender as it bakes, and it is delicious. All you have to do to separate the skin from the grape is pinch the ripe grape at the end that is smooth. The grape pops out from the stem end.
@Ashton Alfredohell no, not on this wholesome channel. at least make their join dates a month apart. like shii, look at those sketchy names too. even the free name generator failed you. like tf is “nathan dillon”? you’d get BULLIED
Muscadines grow wild here in Mississippi. My sweet granny used to pick them and make her own jelly. Then I would give little jars to all my teachers at Christmas. Precious memories! Thanks for sharing, Emmy! ☺️
The "Fruity Fruits" series has been one of my absolute most favorites! I love all of Emmy's videos, but I have truly learned so much & been so inspired to try things that I may have been either afraid to try or simply thought were unappealing. After hearing Emmy explain the taste & textures, how they're grown & where, as well as what & what not to do while eating certain fruits, I have gone out & tried several. I can truly say I have not been disappointed yet! Her explanations & descriptions are truly delightful, as well as accompanied by her lovely personality. Watching any Emmy video is always a pleasure, but I do L♡VE Fruity Fruits & all the knowledge I have obtained this far! So, Thank you for that Emmy & keep the fruits coming & I will gladly keep eating them! 😊💜
my sister and I used to go muscadine hunting in the woods near our house in Georgia. so good on a hot summer day!
we also had some wild blueberries I the same area.
Ohh that sounds so fun!
Same! We had lots of muscadines and blackberries. No wild blueberries... ☹️
I grew up picking these in my grandmas yard and eating them in autumn. I always stick the whole thing in my mouth then gently bite down so the inside squishes out, then spit out the peel and the seeds altogether. Muscadines and scuppernongs are quite possibly my favorite fruit of all time. They’re sour and sweet and juicy and just….heaven on earth. I’ve been desperate to grow my own plant since I bought my own home. Hoping this is the year!
Edited to add: I found your channel in the middle of grocery shopping after craving some fruit, opening my delivery app to see and not know what pipino melon was. And now I’m hooked on fruity fruits.
Such is life. 🤷🏻♀️❤️
Muscadine and scuppernong grapes are everywhere in North Carolina. You can go to vineyards and pick your own like strawberries. They give me very fond memories of Autumn. When I was a kid my Grandfather owned several large grape vines across the road from me and we could just go over there and feast. They smell so good. They are best when they are super ripe, like right before getting rotten when they have a super sweet and juicy taste and almost like a slight wine fermentation. Speaking, of Muscadine and scuppernong wine is wonderful and my favorite wine of all time.
How I ate them was biting the end and the pulp center pops out of the hole (at the end where the stem was). Some people don't eat the peel, but I do. You then eat the pulp, separating the seeds from it with your mouth and teeth and spit them out as you go.
I have never been lucky enough to try them. I am in Indiana, so I am guessing that I am a bit too far north & haven't been lucky enough to cross their path yet. I am a grape fanatic though, any & all kinds... So, I have no doubt I would absolutely adore them. I did read however that the skin is crazy full of antioxidants! So, you are definitely doing it right by eating them. I read the seeds were quite nutritious as well, but it appears that everyone in this thread says they spit them out. I was hoping you could fill me in, do they just taste bad? Or are they just too big to swallow? Or is it just general practice to spit them out? Just quite curious & intrigued. I'm ready to travel south just to go hunt some down because they sound so delicious!! 😍🤣
the skin is the best, like nature's chewing gum :)
@@jkaygoulet the seeds are large and pretty bitter
@@jkaygoulet if you come to NC this time of year I can tell you places you can go pick your own
I live in Goldsboro NC and we had a HUGE scuppernong vine all my life and now the house I live in has them growing wild ALL over my back yard. We love them.
grew up eating them in middle Georgia. just discovered roasting them with some olive oil and balsamic vinegar is really good. softens up the skin.
That sounds really good. I grew up in middle Georgia as well.
Oh that sounds quite interesting! So, it becomes quite a savory treat then, correct?
that sounds amazing, I love doing that with cherry tomatoes too :)
How long do you roast them and on what temperature?
Thanks so much
@@Glitterqueen08 slice in half and remove seeds, which are large and easy to remove. toss with about 2 tablespoons olive oil, tablespoon of balsamic vinegar and optional 2 sprigs rosemary. roast 30 minutes at 425. yum!
When I was a kid my daddy used to tell me I had "muscadine eyes" because I had big dark eyes.
This just gave me huge inspiration for an oil painting... Thank you 💗😍
Leann Myrick hah loser
You were diagnosed with ebola so the doctors say: Pepe pfp and Ebola joke
You’re a kid aren’t you 😂 find some new memes
save the skin and brew it into tea. Add sugar and a tiny pinch of salt to balance the really bitterness
Easy way. Stick the corner of your front tooth into the stem area and squeeze from the bottom...I grew up with these growing in the wild. .
If you don't mind me asking, what area do you live in?...I am in Indiana & have never seen them before. I'm guessing I'm a bit too far north, but I would really love to try them. Any suggestions on where I may be able to come across some? I also am curious where they are most popular in case I can't find any until I do some traveling? Thanks. 😊
@@jkaygoulet They grow wild across North Carolina. We have acres of wild muscadine vines.
Which front tooth? I have two…
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I love the “ping” of canning jars, the sound of a job well done. I did jalapeño jelly a few years ago, it was fantastic!
I grew up picking and eating muscadines. All you do you pop/squeeze the inside (don’t eat the outside) in your mouth and spit the seeds out. There’s a Folgers coffee container full of muscadines my mom picked in the fridge right now. Love them.
Make some muscadine wine! It’s so good.
I grew up on muscadines and scuppernongs. My grandmother made jelly out of them every year. I used to beg her to let me take a jar home . She always did and I have one of the empty jars on my side table right now. This video made me happy.
I live in Scotland and one fruit my nana absolutely loved are ‘damsons’ its a plum sub-species which is absolutely delicious!! I don’t know if you could find them in the states but might be worth looking for 😊
I'm in the US (Missouri) and my sister has a couple of Damson plum trees. Very old trees. I made "Dam Jam" from them, it was heavenly!
I'm a lifelong Oregonian and I've never had a Muscadine grape, but last night I just made grape jelly out of our backyard grapes for the first time and was glad to see that it doesn't appear that I made any errors in the process! Will probably pop open a jar for QC purposes soon anyway...especially since there's still TONS of grapes still in need of using!
My abuela used to make this jelly and it taste the best on biscuits...yum❤
I’m in North Carolina and I love going out every year and collecting muscadines.
It’s a never ending supply of jelly and juice.
That paint strainer tip is a great idea!
my grandfather loved these - he called them muskydimes. he grew them every single year without fail and made batches and batches of jelly and wine for the grandkids.
I must admit, I have started eating toast and jam again after many years, directly due to watching your videos!! I buy different types at Ocean State Job Lot, along with unknown different countries other foods again due to you! One of my recent favorites is Lingdonberry Jam from Denmark! So Thank you for making me step out of my traditional eating habits and try some delicious foods!
How was the Lingonberry jam? I have never tried that either, but would love to! Emmy has also helped me step out of my food comfort zone. She truly does a great service to taste buds everywhere! 🙂
@@jkaygoulet Lingonberry jam is so good, it's kind of similar to cranberry
I live in Tennessee and growing up I always remember walking over to my grandparents house to eat muscadines straight off the vine. This past summer my grandfather passed away and I’ve been away at school since early August. I’ve been kinda homesick and this video just made me smile so much. It reminded me of some of my favorite memories. Muscadines are one of my favorite fruits not only because they are tasty but because of the wonderful thoughts I get as well. You should definitely try making muscadine wine! You should also try Polk salad :)
We have muscadines growing wild all over my area. We pinch the skins off to eat them. A lot of people make wine from them too.
yep same around here
Wine wine wine. Emmy make some wine.
And that wine, especially from east Alabama, will knock you for 6 loops
I was born and raised in georgia and my grandfather used to always have these in his garden. He even made this really delicious wine with them. I was way too young when i drank it, too. LOL 85 Years old and he's still going strong. Idk if he still has them, but he definitely still does gardening.
Emmy! I grew up calling these Bullet grapes! My favorite way to eat them is to lightly bite them where they connect to the stem and the pressure will pop the fruit out! (The really ripe ones are full and firm but still soft enough to let the grapes juices move around) my favorite part of the grape is the little bit of juice that's sitting between the fruit and the skin. Its AMAZING. Be careful eating the skins, they can make your mouth all itchy!!
I just discovered these grapes this summer. They're absolutely delicious. They taste like a mix of a grape, peach, kiwi, and plum all mixed together. It's great!
I will use every jam/jelly packet at Denny's for two slices of bread. Butter + Jelly = 😇
My husband always stops me from eating all the jam/jelly on the table before we get our food. IT's just so tempting!
Survival mode! Do what you gotta do!
🤣... I can say that I have done so myself on occasion! And if there are apple butter packets, any sort of restriction goes out the window! I just can't control myself when it comes to apple butter!!! 😍🍎🍞🍏❤
I love how a lot of your recipes are simple and down to earth foods that we all have either grown up eating, or we continue to eat! They are simple and no fuss recipes that everyone can do! But they are done well. Which is key. The simple things done well. That's what I love. Keep it up!! We all love your recipes. :)
Ahh this brings back fond childhood memories my grandmother had a lot of muscadine grapes that grew in her backyard. My cousins and I would eat them all the time and she also made wine with them.
Mine too!
That color is like a sunset - pinky, purply, orangey and lovely.
My grandfather would make muscadine and scuppernong wines. I remember seeing the jars fermenting in one of the bedrooms when I was a child.
I've seen those a couple of years ago in the market and it. was. amazing! I loved it! I don't mind the pits, having grown up with seeded grapes. You won't chomp into them once your mouth 'knows' where they are.
Omg Emmy! Muscadines are so good! I grew up eating them here in NC. And Muscadine wine is my favorite! Duplin makes an inexpensive muscadine wine that’s delicious!
Oh this jelly looks so good... thanks for all the info Emmy! 💖
Try not to use the same utensil to spread on your toast and put back in the jelly jar to either get more jelly or even worse put some back because it contaminants your jelly and will spoil much easier. Use a spoon to drop some on top of your toast and then spread with your knife. If you need more use the spoon in the jelly to drop more on top of your toast. Try to be careful not to get too much but if you do maybe share with another household member... don’t put any back that’s already been mixed with toast crumbs or butter. I learned from experience. Too much work to have the jar go bad. 🍇
My great grandma lived in Mississippi and did home canning from fruit and vegetables she grew in her garden, including muscadine jelly. Even when I went through a phase where I didn't like traditional grape jelly, I always still loved muscadine jelly. Living in Ohio, it isn't the easiest thing to find, but a few places have gotten it for my family through special orders.
These grow all over Georgia, I remember eating these from my neighbors vine as a kid. I pinch it, spit out the seeds. And then eat the skin! When they’re really ripe it’s sweet and tangy and a lil chewy. Not bitter at all considering it’s a peel 🥰
Makes a kick ass wine too, thats how im familiar with this in the south.
My grandparents accidentally made wine jelly when they left it in pantry too long. 😂
If you look for Chateau Elan - Summer wine, that has a real nice muscadine/scuppernong flavor to it.
Yes! I'm from texas and as soon as I seen muscadine I thought wine!
I have read vineyards spray a lot against "Downy mildew", a fungal disease. The good news is that American grapes are immune to "Downy mildew". So if I had more money than I know what to do with I would buy a vineyard in Champagne and grow those grapes there. To make wine without fungicide.
Emmy, in the Southern Appalachians where I grew up, the muscadine vines grow rampant in the hills and valleys. The vines can get to be 5 or 6 inches in diameter and grow all the way up to the top of the tallest trees. We would find muscadine vines on the hillsides and cut the vine loose from the ground, and back up the side of the hill while holding onto the muscadine vine, when you get as far up the hill as you can, you jump up and grap higher up on the vine, and swing AWAY AND AROUND the tree it is attached to. Everyone has messed up and swung at full speed into the side of the tree that the vine is growing on, and knocking yourself out, and falling down the tree to the ground, then rolling down the side of the hill. It's fun! When you don't break something. LOL
Just an FYI, you can also use peanut butter on glue residue from labels and let sit a few minutes them wipe off with paper towel. I really love the dissolve labels, thanks for sharing.
I love 💖 those dissolvable labels!! I get large (cheep) rolls of them on amazon. They feel just like ordinary paper labels, but disappear in water! I keep finding new uses for them, from labeling leftovers to plastic storage bins, anywhere you want a temporary label.
Spent most of my summers in my youth on my family’s land in the south picking these and blackberries and bringing them back to my gma so she could make jellies and ice cream out of them. Muscadines are still to this day my favorite fruit and I’m glad more ppl will learn about them through this vid
Just picked these up randomly at Sprouts today because I heard in the grape vine they were good, they had the green variety too, I tried these purple ones and they are SOO good! I prefer Concord grapes over any grapes, in fact if I don’t see concord I don’t usually even eat grapes but these muscadine grapes are extremely tasty!
Growing up in NC as a kid these grew wild in many places. I would pinch the opposite side that comes off the vine and the inside just pops right out!
I’m from Alabama and these grow everywhere near my grandmother’s house. They usually aren’t this big but they’re delicious. Muscadine wine is the best!
I love these. I grew up in South Carolina and every summer I'll pick wild bull grapes from the vines on walks for a nice free snack. They grow EVERYWHERE.
I grew up eating these late every summer from our back yard! I remember climbing to the top of our pergola to get the best grapes and sitting up there with sticky fingers waiting for autumn to come! They grow wild here in NC too!
I grew up on muscadine jelly made by my grandmother - they grew wild on her land out in the country of Deep East Texas. My parents make muscadine wine - have some aged 3 years right now - it's my very favorite homemade wine.
Muscadines are my favorite fruit!!! They are so good! My husband and I get bags of them in late summer early fall.
I'm from Alabama, and we had wild muscadines and scuppernongs. I love both. My grandfather had cultivated scuppernong vines in the back yard, and my grandmother used the yield to make jelly. GREAT stuff.
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Such a beautiful color of the jelly. Looks delicious!
"Frosty the snowman"
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I'm so excited that you got to try this amazing friut!! I'm from Western NC and have grown up eating them! You should try muscadine wine. 😊
I grew up thinking, based on my parents' pronunciation, that these were "musky- dimes". They were picked wild and made into jelly, eaten exclusively with hot buttered biscuits.
Actually, my mom called them musky-dimes (she's from Arkansas), my dad, from North Mississippi, called them 'skupper-nons', which I later found is actually 'scuppernongs'. (Course if you wanna say it right you have to say 'musky-dahms' and 'skuhppr-nawns'). Apparently a scuppernong is a variety of muscadine. I'm far, far away from all this now, having moved to the UK. I wonder if can mail order muscadine jelly...
Yep, as a kid in East Tennessee these were "musky-dimes". I don't remember many people making jelly from them, but I do remember the talk about "musky-dime" wine. Watching this video awakened some a craving I didn't realize I had. I'm going to have to make a road trip; I'm outside the wild range now.
The wild grapes and the jelly, jams, marmalade and yes the most delicious wine in the world are made from these! We picked them and nibbled away in my youth ,many delicious memories!
I grew up eating these straight from my yard in North GA, along with a ton of wild blackberries. Now as an adult, I've found them in the woods at my new house, and a vine just started growing wild on my fence! So delicious.
Those things are everywhere in Mississippi (Central Miss-Lou) lol...glad you enjoy them.
lmao they way you said it tho..."those things"🤣😂
Yes, muscadines taste wonderful! If you truly want the best tasting muscading jelly and syrup, you have to go out into the woods and gather them wild. The taste is so much more intense! My Mom use to make the most awesome muscadine syrup. She would basically make jelly but used no sure-jell, she thickened it only with sugar and boiling. She did her jelly the same way. It is so much better tasting if you thicken it only with sugar, and don't use sure-jell. It's more work and time, but the difference is astounding. As far as the syrup goes, I still have old friends that still talk about my Mom's muscadine syrup over her pancakes, when they would spend the night at my house. LOL That's been almost half a century ago.
Just google "no sure-jell jelly"
BTW, for those who have never tried them, they are much more intensely flavored than Concord grapes, and they have a stronger "musky" taste and smell than Concords do. They are also just lousy with flavonoids.
I recently tried a muscadine grape for the first time and really enjoyed it. It reminded me of wine grapes from my grandmother’s backyard. Those wine grapes were delicious. I don’t typically enjoy grapes, but this is an exception.
Eating these is a skill you acquire with practice. We generally bite the opposite end from where the stem would be, so that the flesh goes into your mouth and leaves the skin behind. Then just bite a hole in the flesh and squeeze the seeds out. It sounds very odd to describe the process but this is the best way to describe it.
What you've described makes absolute sense. I just wish I had more grapes to try it out. 😊
Yup was taught that when I was tiny! Lol
Yes. That's how I remember it when I would pick them in the wild.
Yep. We always just pop the whole grape into our mouth, bite down gently enough to squish the grape and get all of the juice, don't bite that "loogy' deflated eyeball thingy that's in the middle with the seeds in it, it doesn't have any juice, just spit all of that out. Bite down, juice explodes into mouth, suck on the grape a little, than spit everything out. That's the way Southerners do it.
I am from Georgia and love to eat those muscadines! They are so good! You have to spit those seeds out while eating them, but you can always save those seeds and plant them! ☺️
We had these wild growing on my parents property in south Louisiana. Along with blueberries, huckleberries, dewberries, and beauty berries. We had the best jam. And the best wine!
Mother-in-law and I put a little butter in our jelly to prevent the foam! A tablespoon works well
Oh gosh this brings back great memories of making jellies and other canning projects to put away or give as gifts, homemade is best. Thank you Emmy!
These a re e on my crave list now. I love concord grapes and when she described them to have that flavor, it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. They look as delicious as they are described. Really wish I had some right now...
I had these muscadine grapes for the first time a month ago. Wow... that is what you call a delicious grape. You know the sensation you get when you bite into a sausage? The taut skin rips open as your teeth puncture through the flesh? It’s very similar, as the skin of this grape is thicker. And the flavor is akin to Japanese grape flavored candy. Aromatic, fresh, and delicately sweet. It’s distinct from the typical varieties we have in the US. I got my bag of muscadines from the Vietnamese market.
One of the most purest of grapes not cultivated by human meddling. LOVE muscadines
Hey Emmy, I live in Southwest, Arkansas & this is a yearly southern tradition as they grow wild everywhere here!!! It makes such good jelly & wine! Hope U enjoy yours😋
I lived in Arkansas as a child and loved them! Here in NY they are non existent.
I love that you use an Opinel pocket knife. They are excellent, inexpensive utility tools.
Chuck Cartwright I love my Opinel!
muscadine and scuppernongs are my favorite! I just ate a bunch few weeks ago. They're so delicious!
Muscadine wine is amazing! That’s one of my dads favorite fruit. I live in Louisiana and my Mawmaw use to grow them for my dad.
I live in Louisiana and I've literally never heard of them
Duplin County wine... try it u will thank me later
Foraging for muscadine and making wine is a tradition here. It's delicious. Also, quick tip, to make really clear grape jelly, leave the juice in the refrigerator overnight and in the morning pour off the top of the juice to make the jelly. This lets tartrate crystals come out of the juice and lets any other bits settle to the bottom.
We grow that fruit here in Arkansas and they look great, but I have never eaten the jelly made from them. I have a persimmon tree outside which has fruit on it, but still green and as soon as they are ripe I will be picking them to eat. You must love the grapes you have and will make jelly/jam from the fruit and I hope you are pleased with the taste.
Muscadine wines can be really nice. From sweet to almost dry. Very popular in alot of the south. Old South Winery Natchez, MS
My favorite varieties of Muscadine wine comes from Old South Winery! I'm a transplant to the south and when my husband told me about Muscadine wine. I thought he had lost his mind. Then he brought some home. It was love at first taste.
Ah! Love muscadines! One of the tastiest snacks in my opinion. Been to two wineries that make muscadine grape wine when I lived in Florida. Yum!
A winery here in Alabama makes muscadine and scuppanong? wine. Both are good but the muscadine is the best. I love to eat muscadines too.
The muscadines I ate as a child were always the green ones. The vacant lot down the road from my grandmas was overgrown with them when I was a child (before someone bought it and destroyed all the vines! D: ). My siblings and I used to go and eat a ton while filling grocery bags with them. We'd always come back with 2 grocery bags a piece and spoil dinner. Lol. I was very very young then. I bought a muscadine plant when I was diagnosed with my cancer 2 years ago, but it hasn't fruited, yet. Hopefully this will be the year, but I have a hard time getting to it to check it now!
Have you tried coronation (blue) grapes?? I love them, they are so sour! You can just pluck them off their stem which leaves a tiny hole and then suck the middles out because the skin is also very thick, but they are seedless!
Muscadines are the best. So sweet, especially the skin.
My Grandpa had rows and rows of muscadines, brings back a lot of really good childhood memories. Thank you!!
I live in Louisiana and we have muscadine grapes all over here, I love them
Literally was just eating some bullets aka muscadines. Both Green and Purple. Delicious. Many ways to eat them. You can eat the skin if you want (sometimes I do sometimes I don't.) I pop the whole thing in my mouth and chew it around. Then spit the seeds and sometimes the skin. Yummy.
My best friend's Grandparents had a small fruit farm when we were growing up. We would spend all day outside picking fruit and making ourselves "sick" eating these, plums, and black berries during the summers lol. Ohhh the good old days!
muscadines are my favorite grape! so grateful to have my own vines.
Muscadine grapes are marvelous and have many uses.
"Frosty the Snowman!!" I have OCD and the butter and jelly/jam needs to cover from point to point on toast. I also have other food rules. I can't watch when Emmy doesn't put her butter all over and when she said oh I don't need that much jam. I yelled but you do!! It's ok weird is wonderful. Lol
Frosty the snowman! My Muscadines were loaded this year but the grapes were a little larger than a bb. I will have to cut them back this fall to see if they will do better next year.
I miss them sooo much! We had them grow al over our land when I was a kid in GA , we would go pick them and eat as we played. I have not had one in years but I can still remember the wonderful flavor! I am now going to search the inter webs to see if I can find a place to order some from, because I have not found any here in San Diego.
I checked the Ball company website, that makes most of the jars and rings and lids. They have not needed the lids prewarmed before canning for decades. They changed the material they used for the seal sometime in the '70's. But everyone learns to can by word of mouth, from their grandmother's usually so word still hasn't gotten around that you don't need to do that anymore.
That jelly looks delicious!! My favorite jelly/jam is apple, especially the kind my grandmother used to make 😋🍏
Ooh, looks like we have similar taste in jelly/jam 🍎I also love peach 🍑 jelly
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Emmy gives her sponsors a great presentation compared to a lot of other creators. What a refreshing woman Emmy is 🥰 Seattle
Memories! My great grandmother in Decatur, Mississippi grew these, and even though I haven’t had one in 30 years I can vividly remember the taste.
Look up Vivian Howard’s A Chef’s Life show on them. She does some interesting things with them.
Mississippi girl here! Grew up on muscadines fresh from the vine and can say they are my favorite fruit. Muscadine jelly is a must on fresh biscuits with butter and you have to find a bottle of muscadine wine my dear. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Muscadines are my fav!! Have some in the freezer now. And yes, you can eat the skins and the seeds. If you choose not to that's fine. But neither are toxic, nor poisonous. You'll just pass the skin when you have a BM.
Frosty the snowman! This jelly looks great!
Love these and the green ones. My Gram would always have these in summer/fall.💗💗the green ones are tangy .