Blackberries & eating apples

Chell

Eves pudding - pop the berries or stewed apple in the bottom of an oven proof dish (I use a pyrex bowl) then spread oven a basic sponge mix and bake. This is lovely with custard.

Barneysmom

HI chell is that how you make a pineapple upside down cake, would it be the same?

lindauk

apple and blackberry jam (not that i can remember the recipe off the top of my head)....

2cats1kid

I've done blackberry and apple jelly and blackberry wine this year. Jelly very yummy indeed, wine still fermenting away like mad.

belfastgirl23

Just since you bring it up - on a roadside near me there seem to be thousands of blackberries getting ready to ripen. It's a pretty busy road though. Do you think there would be any problems with eating them re pollution etc? And out of interest, would the birds eat them if I don't pick them?

2cats1kid

I tend only to pick from bushes away from the roads.

I have to say though, I remember collecting elderflowers/berries, dandelions etc. for wine with my dad at the roadside when I was a kid and that was in the days of petrol with lead in, and I'm still here to tell the tale. (My extra arm is coming along nicely, thanks.) I guess you could counter that with the fact that there are many more cars on the roads now.

Not much help, am I? If it concerns you, then that's probably good enough reason not to pick them.

Mrs_Sparkle

Oooh lovely, thank you all for scrummy sounding recipes. Funnily enough I was given a bottle of gin ages ago and it's still unopened so I'm quite tempted by the blackberry gin idea.

Rosy that's a really good tip about freezing. I'm new to this and so far have just frozen them in tubs which means I'll have big clumps of berries! Oh well, I'll do it your way from now on...

Belfastgirl I'm quite picky about where I get my berries and I'd avoid ones from beside a busy road. I also avoid any which are low enough to have been peed on by dogs. I think the birds will polish off any that are left.

queen_of_string

thanks for the gin recipe, I have made other fruit gins but not thought of doing blackberries, have 2 lots of foraged ones in the freezer already.

Dustykitten

Plan to go picking with the kids on Tuesday when the weather is set fair. I'd pick away from roads too.

In the ASDA magazine there is a great receipe for an oaty plum thing which I've just made - it was lovely and it say you can make it with blackberries too.

I'll open freeze tubs of them for over winter

tanith

I went out and picked over 3lbs the other day and open freeze them just as rosy suggests.. they are much easier to use like this...

My daughter made the most wonderful blackberry jelly the other day too.. and when I have eaten the pot she gave me (it won't last long ) I am going to make some of my own...

I will get the recipe off her its really simple just sugar and blackberries nothing else... and I will post it...