Blackberries

Chris_Powell

Plenty of Blackberries around at the moment -
my advice is to take a tub and find somewhere overgrown
I picked 2 tubfuls (porbably a kilo worth) from by a canal - brilliant just got to stew them now for some great fruit mmmmm abd free as well

cathy_3

blackberry and apple jam is nice also a blackberry pie

lots of vitamins in them as well, just dont pick them from the side of the road cos then theyre full of lead off the car fumes ;D

http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/foods_view/0,1523,142,00.html

Chris_Powell

Think I will be having stewed blackberries on my cereal and some apple and blackberry crumble

Not sure about anything else to do with them but they are tasty

cathy_3

I can feel a vinegar tip coming on


when youve picked your pickings  wash them then put a 1/4 mug of vinegar in a basin full of water and let them soak for a half hour or so.  this will kill any protein that should NOT be there  :-and any germs

rinse and voila  clean berries

::) ::)

purplemoon

It might kill them...but they may still be lingering. I do eat blackberries and would love to find some this year- but I must say once you've seen the m*gg*ts is very difficult to forget they're there.
When I was little we used to pick at the local graveyard....

cathy_3

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!

16011996

i rinse mine in vinegar, and bake in a crumble with apples, that should kill all germs.

KK

We always used to pick them above the waist, so that dogs haven't weed on them (typical of my mum!). YOu could make blackberry sorbet with egg whites and sugar. You could put cassis in them for a boozy pudding ice cream topping. I made them for my daughter when she was a baby and she had blackberry with everything. I used to puree them and mix them in with blackcurrant jelly to make the jelly nicer and more nutritious. I used to do this with all fruit inc. cooking apple mixed in jelly. Unfortunately my 4 year old is now wise to it and asked why the jelly was cloudy and tasted funny - great! You could also mix them with yoghurt and make homemade ice cream or lollies.

16011996

mine like them semi frozen and mushed bit like a slush doggy thing. that doesn't sound right is it a kitty or something. mind a blank. ::)

trafalgar_2

Puppy ;D ::)

jbbonce

For the past two years, DH and I spent ages cutting back the thorny bush in our garden. This year because the weather has been so awful and we have been busy with other things, we just let it overgrow. I have been out today and discovered that it is actually a blackberry plant and we are so going to have several hundred blackberries.

Hopefully their ripe stage will coincide with the end of my job so I will have plenty of time to make several blackberry desserts for the freezer. I know how to make blackberry cobbler but i could do with some other recipes if you don't mind sharing. But not jam cos i've got about 16 jars to get through at the mo.
Thanks
Jbbonce