Concord Grape Pie. Filling: 4 cups Concord grapes. 1 cup sugar. ⅓ cup all-purpose flour. ¼ teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon lemon juice. 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine.

At that time, the grapes were quite sour and had very little of that wonderful intense concord flavor. To help you decide when to pick your concord grapes, watch for a few clues.

And yet, the Concord grape languishes in relative obscurity. Each year in the U.S., about 420,000 tons of the fruit are produced, a sum that accounts for just 7 percent of the 5.9 million tons of ...

The Concord grapes were juicy, often sweeter than pears, but not as sweet as berries. They had a musty quality, sometimes an earthiness, as if something of the vine itself were present in the fruit.

When the Doran’s moved home to Minnesota they planted Concord grapes and Teresa started making her own pie filling. It also works great for jam and as an ice cream topping. Grape pie has a ...