Black berries

[PumpkinPatch21]

Our black Berry bush took off massively this year, we have well over a thousand blackberries!
Other than making pies and crumbles what else can I do with them please? 😂 We are over run with them!

Jam and then send it all to me
Blackberry syrup to pour over ice cream or use as cordial or make jelly with etc...
Blackberry and apple chilli chutney!
Blackberry wine - tastes like port but very alcoholic though that could have been the batch I made.
Cook pigeon breasts in a blackberry sauce - in fact, lots of more gamey meat like venison also works well with blackberries

Jam - made bramble with star anise / chilli last year and it was my favourite by a country mile.

Blackberry jam has too many pips for my liking. Sieve them out and (a) make a jelly or (b) add apple to get a jam with more body.
You can freeze them. Use an open tray and they will freeze individually,. like peas, so you can later use as many or as few as you want.
You could make blackberry vinegar.

Just eat them raw! Delicious with yogurt/cream or in porridge. Just store in the fridge.

I’m impressed you have an actual blackberry bush.
We just have brambles.

You can use some of them to make Blackberry Gin or Vodka. Like sloe gin/vodka.

We normally get a few kgs each year. I freeze a lot of them, frozen on trays then transferred to tubs. Then can use for crumbles, throw a handful into yoghurt etc for rest of year. I've made sorbet before as well which was really good

Let the birds have them. Horrid pippy things

Put them in smoothies. Add to porridge. 😋

Pancakes and muffins are nice. They keep in the freezer well

This year I still had 2020 blackberries in my freezer in June (lockdown picking frenzy). After using pretty much daily in ways described above I finally just blitzed all remaining, sieved to get rid of as much pip as possible and added small amount of orange juice and froze in daily shot sized sizes. Kind of drank down as daily ‘tonic’. Within days of the last this years were starting.
During the year I mostly used for -
Fresh in yoghurt
Handful in pancake mix
Clafoutis type thing with lots in.

Arrange a swap with the poster with a glut of apples and you can both have blackberry and apple crumble

I second making wine , I used about 4 kg last year to make some .
You can get all the wine making stuff you need from Wilkos .

Make sure you lace your socks up tight or it will blow them off !

Stew them with a bit of sugar and blitz and sieve them to take out of the seeds. Fill them into ice cube bags/trays and freeze. Pop them onto anything that you want a blackberry topping like porridge, yoghurt and granola etc.

I make bramble jelly with mine, there’s a really good Prue Leith recipe somewhere. They also freeze really well for crumbles - we’ve only just finished last years.

alcal sock image really really made me laugh. Also can you lace socks up? Absurdity of that made me laugh even more.

We've just made a large batch of blackberry and apple jam .... totally delicious, and adding the apples makes it less "pips", without needing to go to the effort of making a jelly.

I cook them up with apples to soften then freeze that in batches.

Then through the autumn/winter, just put a pack in a dish with crumble topping, or straight into a pie shell, or defrost and put in porridge, or warm and serve with custard/cream/icecream.

Instant homemade desserts whenever you fancy them.

After a few years of quite frenzied betraying when in remote place, this year I decided just to lick what I wanted each morning in my early walk. This thread is dangerously tempting me to fall off my wagon !
I still have my one betting gardening glove with finger tips cut off - to avoid stinging nettles and thorns. Oh no I can feel the need creeping upon me.

Betraying and betting should both read ‘berrying’. Interesting autocorrects.

www.nigella.com/recipes/members/stoupatarts-blackberry-icecream
This thread has reminded me of this recipe I used to make, and ought to again, it's very easy as ice cream recipes go.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/fruit-almond-clafoutis
I tried this recently, very easy, and I love the word clafoutis

Home-made blackberry ice-cream is amazing and a world away from stuff made from shop-bought blackberries. The colour isn't great but the taste is incredible.

@HeronLanyon

After a few years of quite frenzied betraying when in remote place, this year I decided just to lick what I wanted each morning in my early walk. This thread is dangerously tempting me to fall off my wagon ! I still have my one betting gardening glove with finger tips cut off - to avoid stinging nettles and thorns. Oh no I can feel the need creeping upon me.

I'm intrigued, how does cutting off the finger tips help against nettles and thorns?

Because you need fingertips to gauge ripeness and lick carefully (well I do) but the rest of your hand as you dig deep into the hedges. Told you I was quite obsessed !