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Title: Blackberries!
Post by: gunwharfman on 16:22:10, 12/09/19
I live in Hamshire and we seem to have an abundance of blackberries this year. I've out in the woods and fields, a few miles from my home every day this week and I just can't stop eating them. My wife has ordered me to go out and pick a load tomorrow, she has an urge to start cooking various recipes with them! Custard, cream or ice cream, which to choose?
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: ninthace on 16:39:37, 12/09/19
Our blackberries are just coming in too.  Mrs N loves to snack as she goes along.  Oddly in the Pyrenees, they crop in the late Spring, came as quite a surprise.  I would like to snack on the moorland berries too, but i am not sure what is what.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: Strider on 16:53:17, 12/09/19
The blackberries have been out in southern Scotland for a couple of weeks now, there's lots of all sorts of berries around right now.  I like to pick cloudberries when I can find them, I don't know if you get them in the south?
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Post by: BuzyG on 17:32:01, 12/09/19
I do love a few Blackberrys on a walk. O0
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Post by: Dovegirl on 18:29:31, 12/09/19
An abundance of blackberries in Sussex
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Post by: gunwharfman on 18:54:22, 12/09/19
Sorry, no idea what a cloudberry is. I'll look it up later, it may be known down here in the South by another name?
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Post by: gunwharfman on 19:01:21, 12/09/19
Is this a Cloudberry? If it is I personally have never seen one.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiB3aGl7svkAhUOTcAKHdofBrwQFjAMegQIARAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swedishfood.com%2Fcloudberries&usg=AOvVaw2JrDOAZXs8rHaMNVZWoYEU
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: vghikers on 19:07:34, 12/09/19
We've seen the orange cloudberries occasionally, e.g. in the northern English hills such as the north Yorkshire Dales, and eaten them too - very good  :)
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: ninthace on 19:13:13, 12/09/19
And we have Bilberries or Whortleberries on Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Quantock Hills.
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Post by: richardh1905 on 20:01:02, 12/09/19
Managed to sample no less than 5 wild foods on a walk down the Findhorn gorge in August last year - bilberries, raspberries, wood sorrel, blackberries and wild cherries.

The cherries were phenomenal - we picked several pounds of them.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: Mel on 20:55:35, 12/09/19
I have had brambles in my garden for a month or so now.  Blackie dive-bombs me when I go out to pick them.  That's the thanks I get for saving his life!



Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: pleb on 10:22:29, 13/09/19
I dont eat them, they are full of bugs  :o
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Post by: richardh1905 on 12:58:09, 13/09/19
I dont eat them, they are full of bugs  :o

Extra protein!
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: Dyffryn Ardudwy on 14:22:47, 13/09/19
Its a tough call, an Apple Crumble with a slight touch of cinnamon, and thick extra dollops of Clottage cream.

Then there's either a Blackberry Crumble, or tart, with cold not warm custard, so one can enjoy the excesses of the skin off the custard.

Last year i did not take the opportunity to collect a mammoth helping of Blackberries, and i recon this year will be a big harvest.

Do i pick them, and enjoy the fruits of my labour in the kitchen, or do i leave them, knowing it will go a long way in helping our wildlife to store some for the coming winter.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: ninthace on 16:07:33, 13/09/19
Had some today while on the march.  Some were really sweet.  Add to list of uses or trekking poles - hooking down out of reach blackberries.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:13:19, 13/09/19
I even spotted some ripe brambles in Kirkwall today - in someone's garden, unfortunately, so not fair game.

As for what to do with a bumper crop, apple and blackberry crumble with ice cream would be top of my list. Any surplus can be frozen and turned into jam and (especially) wine - mmm.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: ninthace on 17:11:58, 13/09/19
Crème de Mûre - the ultimate way to enjoys blackberries,
Recipe here:
https://www.atipsygiraffe.com/blackberry-liqueur/


Makes a better Kir than Crème de Cassis too in Mrs N's opinion and she has got through enough to be an expert.
Title: Re: Blackberries!
Post by: Mel on 18:39:00, 13/09/19
I've just traded a load of my brambles for some plums  :D


(Blackie wasn't impressed  :-[  )