Berry Sauce

Edible mountain berries include blackberry, chokecherry, gooseberry, thimble berry, wild strawberry, serviceberry, sugar bush berry, lemonade berry, huckleberry, elderberry and raspberry. For this recipe, I have used commercial raspberries, elderberries, dried blueberries and 1/4 c currants.

l package fresh raspberries or other fresh berries
1/4 c currants
1/4 c dried blueberries
1 T dried elderberries
1 t cornstarch
1 c water

Mix and cook to a boil and simmer until the piquant mixture becomes slightly thick. Cool in a large bowl or several small individual bowls with berry leaves surrounding. This mixture can be used like cranberry sauce with various entrees or with ice cream as a dessert.

Acorn Pudding

Surprisingly enough, this dessert starts out with acorn base which is just a mixture of acorn flour and water which is boiled until gelatinous. It has a very mild, somewhat nutty flavor and as such takes well to many additions.

Acorn Pudding
Mix 3 T of acorn flour (available at some Korean markests) with 1/4 c water. Mix thoroughly and continue stirring for about 8 to 10 minutes. When a little bit is dropped into cold water and it floats, it is finished. Mixture will turn dark.

Presentation
Pour mixture into small bowls, about 1/2 inch thick. Cool. Prepare two more bowls, one with chopped walnuts and chocolate, another with mixed dried berries, raisins, currants etc. and sprinkle these mixtures on the pudding. Serve with whipped cream, ice cream, soy ice cream or rice ice cream and a spring of mint.

Mint Berry Patch

5 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 bunch mint with stems removed
5 sprigs berry leaves
1 T raspberry preserve
Raspberries
Place ice cream in bowl with springs of mint and berry leaves between scoops. Drizzle with raspberry preserve. Place in freezer, making sure leaves are standing up. Berries can be sprinkled on dessert and frozen, or added when served.

Walnut Pie

2 bananas
1 large apple
3 T currants
1/4 c brown sugar
2c walnuts, chopped
1/2 t cinnamon
3 T melted butter
1 frozen whole wheat pie shell

Cut banana and apple into small pieces and mash until lumpy. Add remaining ingredients and pour mixture into pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes. Serve with topping of vanilla rice dream or soydelicious.

Snowy Mountain

1/2 cake of Mexican chocolate
1/2 milk, soy milk or rice milk
4 eggs or egg replacer
1/4 c acorn flour
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 t chicory root
1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 c soy milk
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 c oil

For topping-
1/2 c finely grated Ibarra Mexican chocolate
1/2 c powdered sugar

Place 1/2 cake of Mexican chocolate (sugar, cinnamon, chocolate mixture) in pan with milk. Slowly melt chocolate mixture in milk, stirring constantly. Add rest of ingredients. Spray cooking oil on side of small stainless steel bowl or mold. Place mixture in bowl and bake for about 45 minutes or until knife comes out clean. Invert bowl on plate. "Frost" very lightly with finely chopped chocolate, sprinkling it and spreading it on the warm cake until it melts. Dust with powdered sugar.

Spring Foothills

After cooking 4 small chopped red potatoes with 2 small onions and seasoning with salt, etc, mash potatoes and place in mounds. Sprinkle with very finely chopped fresh greens, placing rest of chopped greens at base of "foothills".