blackberries, anyone know what to make with them please

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the hedgerows are groaning with huge blackberries around us so taking the kids out today to pick, we can do jam and an ok crumble, however could do with some other easyish suggestions please?

Flavoured vodka or gin? You can steep the berries with sugar and the spirit for a few weeks in a kilner jar then strain into sterilised bottles. Makes a nice Christmas gift.

You can make non alcoholic cordial too - find a recipe online.

After having my crumble roundly rejected by the kids last year (very rude, it was lovely!)I'm going to have a go at blackberry ice cream this time. There's loads around where I live.

Blackberry pie/tarts, blackberry crumb bars, blackberry pound cake, blackberry crepes, cakes, cobblers. Try looking on Pinterest as tons of ideas/recipes.

I was going to suggest crumble.

I only met Dorothy Hartley's Food in England a few years ago but she has one of the easiest recipes ever for blackberry junket. I can't make a link but it's available online. You juice the berries and leave the juice in a bowl in a warm place for a few hours. That's it! It'll set to a soft jelly by itself.

She suggests thinly sliced and rolled brown bread and butter to go with it. Richard Mabey also knows it and suggests sponge fingers and cream as accompaniments.

bbc good food blsckberry fool. We just made it with the fruit we picked. Its delicious

I was going to suggest fool. You could stew the blackberries with a bit of sugar (no water!), let them go cold, then fold into whipped cream mixed with natural or Greek yoghurt. You could also use them as the base for a trifle. There’s always summer pudding as well, but you’ll need some other berries too. Or apple and blackberry pie- use shop bought short crust if you’re not a pastry maker.

My gran made bramble jelly aka blackberry jam sieved to remove the bits. It was amazing and also made the best jam tarts.

Apple and blackberries stewed together (splash of water, squeeze of lemon and brown sugar to taste) makes a fantastic pudding when served with custard and an amazing breakfast if served with Greek yoghurt.

Blackberry and apple jam or jelly is unbeatable!
They go well with pears too as well as with lemon curd in a cake filling or dolloped on ice cream 😋

I once pureed and strained some blackberries and then made cupcakes. They actually came out purple

Crumble....always crumble!!!! We managed to scrump some apples to go with ours this year too!!

Obviously crumble.
Gin
Jam (add a tiny bit of vanilla or rosewater at the end)
Cakes - tea loaf and add them in.
Cheesecake with BlackBerry puree
Ice cream
Fruit fool
Or BlackBerry jelly - make a juice (cook in a pan with a little sugar and water until they burst let it drip through a fine seive with a muslin) and then sweeten and set
BlackBerry cheese (to have with cheese v delicious)
Sorbet.

I love blackberries and will be out picking them myself too this weekend.

Great ideas on this thread and IMO, you cannot beat blackberry & apple crumble.

I've also made blackberry muffins - in the same way you would blueberry ones & they worked really well.

Blackberry cheesecake is also good , as is blackberry pavlova.

I've also made a victoria sponge and lightly mashed some blackberries for the inner filling with a layer of whipped cream - mouth watering just remembering it!

• Blackberry and apple pie
• An autumn Eton mess with blackberries instead of the raspberries/strawberries
• blackberry compote to have with things like yogurt, ice cream, porridge.
• blackberry oaty breakfast bars

They can easily be frozen whole, ready for later use. Wash them, place them on a tray and pop into the freezer. When frozen, bag them up.

My second child that eats almost nothing (apples and sweet corn are the only fruit or vegetable to pass his lips) actually loves blackberries, so I am very pleased about this year's bumper crop. He loves them in crumble or pies (with apple so not too tart).
I love bramble jelly, homemade is unbeatable!

thanks everyone these are fantastic - I've just got back in with a bumper haul (dc would not come and help despite my best attempts at persuasion and bribery), these suggestions are great - I do love Mumsnet!

I’ve just made fruit leather for the first time with 3/4 blackberry and 1/4 apple puree - it was deeelicious.
Also made creme de mure last year - blackberry liqueur. I used Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe for black currant version, and just subbed the fruit. Lovely with a mixture of both too.