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Chocolates in Alaska
A couple of years ago I experimented with some of our local wild berries and made some jellies for people to taste. I added them to my chocolate collection that I had put together. There is a berry here that the locals call "laughing berries". They are salal berries and are extremely flavorful. People use them to make jams and jellies and pancake syrup.I made jellies out of the salal berries and they were very well received. They had ten times the flavor of the other jellies I had made with wild blueberries, salmon berries and raspberries. I never even got to the point of coating my jellies (pate de fruit) with chocolate, which was the original plan. The jellies were eaten up and I ran out of berries. Last year was a terrble year so I didn't get to pick any salal berries but I indend to get as much as I can this year.My ultimate question is: Would the general population accept something like this? Something very, very flavorful but very local? Some people outside our community think that salal berries are poisonous which is wrong. maybe I should just market it as laughing berry jelly candy.Does anyone have any opinion on this?
I for one would absolutley LOVE to try your "laughing berries", with dark chocolate even better! I was never a fruit w/choc fan until I tried LilliBelle choc berry truffles (for lack of a better word, its not just choc covered berries, more of a yummy jelly inside like yours)) They are made in Oregon which is famous for awesome berries too- like boysenberry and many unique to Pac. NW area. Lillibelle is all local and organic and the flavor of these really changed my perception of the combo- i was an instant convert and fan. If you can do that with your berries i say go for it and Bless you for even trying! Pls keep us posted on your progress....