i've been blackberry picking! :)

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ds very enthusiastically started picking them and now i have 2 large punnets worth) still need to root out the green ones tho)

what shall i do with them apart from crumble?

jam? pie? blackberry sauce is v nice with duck. Use them,sweetend, over meringue to make a pavlova type thing?

Get some rasps and make Summer pudding

or flapjack

Look up bbc good food website for their blackberry&coconut oaty tray-bake thing - scrumptious! The ones near me aren't ripe yet; apparently different varieties ripen weeks apart...grr...

There was a Blackberry thread recently,and someone mentioned Blackberry vodka would love the recipe

Homemade blackberry jam is just so good; seems to have about ten times the flavour of strawberry or raspberry.

I plan on making blackberry vodka this year!

How is it made Littlepurplrprincess?

Are blackberries out already? I now have my plans for this afternoon.

I'm not sure, it's on a thread on here somewhere. I think you make it like sloe gin. Put the blackberries in a jar then and sugar and water, fill up with booze then put the lid on and turn every day for two weeks. Then you filter it through a sieve and put into pretty jars.

I may have missed out some steps there so don't quote me on it.

I'm not sure if the blackberries are out round here yet but I'm going for walk this afternoon to find out.

Thankyou Littlepurpleprincess

I will make it my day's ambition have a little search for said thread

Well I went hunting for blackberries today. There are tonnes of green ones but I got a pot full of ripe ones so I will be going back in a week or so and put the ones I got today in the freezer.

ooh some blackberry recipes would be good , i have 3 bushes and we usually loose the fruit to the birds as i don't know what to do with it.
Am liking the vodka one !!

i made jam with mine. :) it's YUMMY!
recipe here

Where are you? I went out looking for some today but they weren't ripe yet in Suffolk. Did stumble accross a cherry plum tree though, and now have two kilos in the freezer ;-)

BTW I really like blackberry jam as it is so eary. Some people complain about the pips but it isn't that much worse than other berries imo. Otherwise, blackberry tequila or brandy!

I'm in Torquay.

Blackberries here in London are almost a month early I think. I'm just making some blackberry cordial and there are some good recipes here.

I got a glut of rhubarb yesturday so I made some chutney.

I make jam.

But I add a couple of spoons of my blackberry jam to beef stew.

Lovely in porridge.