blackberry picking

curlywurlygirly

We have loads by us - but unfortunatly no where near Cardiff.

They freeze very well BTW - we still have some left from last year!

curlywurlygirly

skintmostofthetime wrote: »

Don't Pick Any Fruit From The Side Of A Road - You Could Get Poisened. All Those Fumes.

I wholeheartedly agree!

redfaced

I am so glad i read this thread!

Dianadors-i soaked my 3lbs of blackberries (that dd and I risked life and limb for yesterday!) in salt water and quite a few grubs came out-dd was HORRIFIED :rotfl: :rotfl: Thankyou

lil_me

**puts note on tomorrows to do list to soak in salt water first, urgh, bugs!**

Wonder if I can just make the crumble filling and stick it in a pie ? DS1 won't have crumble, moaning for pie!

janetmw

lil_me wrote: »

Wonder if I can just make the crumble filling and stick it in a pie ? DS1 won't have crumble, moaning for pie!

Yes! No problems. If you are putting pastry on the bottom of the pie, I would take as little juice as possible otherwise you will end up with a soggy bottom! The juice can be served separately with the custard/cream.

When I make fruit pies, I tend to use raw fruit: eg sliced apples and a good handful of blackberries. Sprinkle sugar over the fruit and to help soak up the juices I also sprinkle over some ground rice. The pie crust then goes on the top.

HTH

Janet

carolt

Just a reminder to all and sundry to get blackberry picking!!!!

OH took kids to the wood at the weekend and came back with enough (free) blackberries to fill a full shelf of the freezer (not that we froze them all - there's been some serious blackberry eating too!). I took them again yesterday, and the fruit were all just rotting on the bushes, there were so many of them. Waste not want not, especially at the moment, so it seems awful to let all this free fruit go to waste.

Even better than pick your own as it's all free; on a hedgerow or in a wood near you.


Anyone got any good blackberry recipes?!

Larumbelle

Here's a blackberry wine recipe - well, actually it's an apple wine recipe, but you can replace the apples with blackberries weight for weight and make blackberry wine instead:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=13059365&postcount=561

This is 2cats1kid's blackberry curd recipe (which is fab looking!):

http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/173/blackberry-curd-recipe/

LittleBill's blackberry gin:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=13013945&postcount=4

Lamewolf's blackberry jam:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=13058185&postcount=2

...There are tons on here!

eco

home made blackberry jam is amazing,everyone should try it

Sunny_Donny

been blackberry picking 3 times so far. Have picked equivalent of an icecream tub everytime. Going again at the weekend as there seems to be loads of berries about this year. A lot better than last year. All gone in freezer for crumbles when cooking apples fall off tree and to add to porrige in winter.

Tulip

I did some blackberry picking today when I arrived at Mums,it was great fun,got scratched by the nettles whilst doing it so be careful I kept going ow as well but it was fun and Dad did some too Between us we got two bowlfuls for mum and shes making an Apple and Blackberry crumble which we are having for pudding this sunday its nice with custard too