Pineapple Sage

[Kathy]

Does anyone else have Pineapple Sage in their herb garden?

This is my first year and oh man, does that stuff smell wonderful and when I rub it between my fingers, it has a nice pineapple flavor.
I'm not sure what all kind of recipes I'll use it in, but for now I'm just enjoying the aroma.

Here's a recipe for a pound cake using pineapple sage that I found at: davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1913/

Pineapple Sage Pound Cake Recipe
The bright red flowers adds that bit of wow to this cake!

1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup honey
5 eggs
2 tablespoons chopped pineapple sage leaves (the small, new leaves are best)
3 tablespoons coarsely chopped pineapple sage flowers, if available
1 teaspoon grated lemons, rind of
4 tablespoons well drained crushed pineapple
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour

Makes 1 loaf or 4 miniature loafs

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Grease and flour four miniature loaf pans*.
Cream the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy.
Beat in the honey.
Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to beat for one minute after each addition.
Beat in the sage leaves, flowers, lemon peel, and crushed pineapple.
Stir the dry ingredients together and add to the butter mixture.
Fold these together gently, until just blended.
Pour into loaf pans.
Bake for approximately 45 minutes ( time for 1 loaf), or until golden brown (wooden pick inserted into center will come out clean).

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I have had pineapple sage in the past, but don't have any right now.

That recipe sounds YUMMY!!! Have you made it yet?

Kaza

[Kathy]

Not yet, my sage was just planted about 3 weeks ago so it needs to grow some.

I can't wait to try it though, it sounds like it will taste pretty good.

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It's too cold for pineapple sage here. For that matter, it's too cold for regular sage here. I'm trying to grow garden sage from seeds this year (but it's really slow...) and they'll be treated as annuals. I used to have a beautiful, huge sage patch at our old house, but I never tried pineapple sage even there because... oh, I could make a lot of excuses, but the long and the short of it is, I grow my herbs for medicinal purposes, so I avoid all the varieties that have been altered in some way (flower color, size, smell, etc.), thinking they wouldn't be as pure and/or potent. I'm probably wrong, but what can I say? I'm a purist! (I won't even grow Yarrow unless it's the original white flowered variety.)

I planted a whole bunch of sage seeds in flats a month ago, so I could interplant the sage with my cabbage - it's supposed to repel cabbage moths - but I only have two little sprouts so far, and yesterday I saw my first cabbage moth. Next year I need to start sage seeds like in January! I guess now I go out and dig up some wild white sage and transplant it into the cabbage patch and see if it works. It surely doesn't smell like pineapple, but maybe that's why the moths don't like it.

~Lannie

[bbird]

I've never heard of it before, sounds neat! I've grown (I guess) regular sage before but it died.

The man at the gas station seen my yarrow I just bought in the car a few years ago and gave me a lecture on tansy.

bbird-who realizes I didn't have much to add to this thread, but wanted to say pineapple sage sounds neat!