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  • moggins
    moggins Posts: 5,190 Forumite
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    It's like tomato ketchup but made with blackberries, I even save ketchup bottles to put it in. It goes really well with pies and cold meats.
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  • Kazonline
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    Sounds nice... do you make it the same as a jelly? About to boil up my lot to make some jelly now. Do you know if the jelly makes more in volume than the fruit or less, or the same?
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  • moggins
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    No definitely not the same as a jelly, it's more like making a chutney with all the spices that go in. I'll dig out the recipe tomorrow.
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  • Kazonline
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    Cheers moggins - anything that gerts them walking the dog up the mountain to get more is a help! Esp if it means they drag their old ma with them so she gets a bit of exercise :D
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  • purplemoon
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    I used to pick loads of blackberries as a child in London but now I live in Brighton I don't know where we can find them. Strange, huh? We have no car (through ethical, and quality of life, choices) and I guess anywhere accessible will be very popular; whereas in London there were always plenty to go around... Not many other people wanted to blackberry pick in graveyards...
  • wombat_2
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    The jelly sounds lovely!

    I found some blackberries yesterday (on the way back from the PYO raspberry place!) - got a few handfuls :D They're in the freezer now, haven't decided what to make, maybe blackberry cobbler...
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  • Sarahsaver
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    thriftlady wrote:
    Just remembered about bullaces - a kind of wild plum

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    THAT's what's on our neighbour's tree!
    Had one lovely crumble after sending OH up on the roof to get the fruits!
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  • Annie_Fanny
    Annie_Fanny Posts: 1,167 Forumite
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    Hey everyone...

    Don't forget to get out there in the great outdoors and pick those free blackberries! My OH made a gorgeous summer fruit pudding with the huge tub I picked on Friday. I can't believe that stores like M&S sell blackberries - hello they are free free free!

    Blackberries can be frozen after cooking for a short time so they are truly a money saving food!

    :) YUM!

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  • Kazonline
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    Boiled blackberries are now 'strained' - the juice is for the jelly, but can I use the pulp in a crumble?..... more to the point - would the pulp be NICE in a crumble? :D Seems a waste to throw it!
    Kaz x
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    Someone burst my bubble and I lost the plot so no idea what I spent now... :(I will try to work it out.
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  • rubytuesday
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    Kazonline wrote:
    What's blackberry ketchup moggins? What do you tend to use it with?

    In Richard Mabeys book is reciepe for something that sounds like blackberry ketchup can't remember what is was called will have a look.
    Here dead we lie because we did not choose
    To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
    Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
    But young men think it is,
    And we were young.
    A E Housman
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