Mumsnet has always been helpful and the collective knowledge great, so there's some field near is which used to be allotments. Loads of fruit trees grow there. We have an abundance of blackberries and figs, sadly now out of season, so we have made loads of jams and pies.
DH went over earlier to see of there were any figs left but they're all gone now, but he did see these.
We don't know what they are. They look a bit like blueberries, but are on trees not bushes. My dad thinks they look like sloe berries. Obviously we don't want to pick and cook with any until we know they are safe.
I thought the MN collective would probably know.
Also while I'm here asking questions. Does anyone know a good alternative to butter in pastry? We did our last cook off almost vegan cheaptastyandeasy.wordpress.com/cook-off-almost-vegan/ but the problem we had was the pastry in the pastry pie. We use butter and an egg in it, obviously if we're doing it vegan then those are out, so does anyone have a good pastry recipe without butter and egg?
We're doing our next cook off next Friday and it was lovely so we're going to do it veggie again but would like the pastry vegan.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.