
While the season may be over for local raspberries, those bare bushes aren’t an entirely depressing sight to see. We pulled a truly impressive harvest this year, far better than ever before. Seeing this wealth of ruby red berries sitting placidly in the freezer and fridge, I’m only sad that not everyone out there has such luck. Wanting to share the wealth, I thought I might make you a deal: If you can guess how many quarts of raspberries my dad and I picked this year, I’ll send you some raspberry-imbued goodies through the mail. Keep in mind that one quart = four cups, and please make only one guess. Whoever hits the nail on the head first wins!
August 24, 2008 at 10:32 am
Nine?
August 24, 2008 at 10:33 am
My guess is 7 quarts. I love raspberries!
August 24, 2008 at 10:34 am
I’m afraid that our respective post offices (and border crossings) won’t allow you to mail such foodstuffs to me in any case, but here goes anyway: twelve?
August 24, 2008 at 10:43 am
10 quarts?
August 24, 2008 at 10:51 am
Eight?
August 24, 2008 at 10:59 am
I’ll wager… thirteen quarts?
August 24, 2008 at 10:59 am
6 quarts is my guess
August 24, 2008 at 11:02 am
8 quarts!
August 24, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hmm, my guess is 15 quarts!
.Jennifer.
August 24, 2008 at 11:20 am
22?
August 24, 2008 at 11:30 am
11?
August 24, 2008 at 11:32 am
I’ll say 20 quarts (wow! 80 cups??). Rockin’ raspberries!!
August 24, 2008 at 11:32 am
I’m going to say 5 quarts!
August 24, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’m going to say 14! Either way, I am in awe of all those raspberries. I have never seen more than a pint at a time.
August 24, 2008 at 11:51 am
Seventeen?
August 24, 2008 at 12:08 pm
12?
August 24, 2008 at 12:23 pm
16?
August 24, 2008 at 12:44 pm
18- and those are beautiful berries!
August 24, 2008 at 12:50 pm
33 Quarts! Which would be a crap ton of berries, but oh-so-good!
August 24, 2008 at 12:55 pm
10.
They’re wonderful, aren’t they? As delicious as they are in complex dishes, my favorite is still adding them to a simple white cake once the batter’s in the pan. YUM.
August 24, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Oh no! I hadn’t realized 10 had been guessed. I guess 19′s my number, then.
August 24, 2008 at 1:05 pm
21?
August 24, 2008 at 1:13 pm
19! :)
August 24, 2008 at 2:26 pm
6? hee hee.
August 24, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Oh 6 has been said :) I say 17 now.
August 24, 2008 at 3:20 pm
wow, that’s a lot of berries. I guess we’re up to…23 quarts?!
August 24, 2008 at 3:25 pm
32 quarts. 32 is a good number.
August 24, 2008 at 3:37 pm
24? thats sooo many!
August 24, 2008 at 4:01 pm
29
August 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Hm…..let’s see…….I’m going to go with 25 quarts! (only because I think every number before that has been guessed….)
August 24, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I love raspberries so much, their velvety softness on the tongue. Mmmmm :)
August 24, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Well since my family has picked about 3 quarts from our rather small blackberry crop and you all go out so frequently and you dad is fairly aggressive about it, I’m going to say 27 quarts.
Barbara
August 24, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Nobody’s picked 4 yet, though I know it has to be more than that.
August 24, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Noting the wife and I have about, 10-12 qts of, black, rasp, straw, and blue, I’m guessing you and your father put away maybe 2-3 times as much. 26?
August 25, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I’m going to have to guess a midling response — maybe 12 quarts (almost 50 cups! that’d be amazing)
August 26, 2008 at 11:23 am
4 quarts to a gallon, and rembering the good ol days when I had a rasberry patch 8 gallons. 8X4=32 but since you said quarts not gallons add 2 for 34 quarts of yummy goodness.
August 27, 2008 at 1:22 am
oh, I wish I could win this contest. raspberries are my most favorite food.
i’ll say 12 1/2
are halves okay?
xo amey
August 27, 2008 at 3:03 am
Pity that I was too late to participate :( but I probably wouldn’t have guessed it anyway ;)
August 27, 2008 at 6:55 pm
In the south we don’t get many raspbarries but I found some on sale! like for 25 cents!
August 27, 2008 at 11:29 pm
My guess is 39 quarts! Something said that number as I strolled through your blog one night!