Blackberries are coming into season. These are volunteers so they are a touch on the astringent side, not great for raw eating. Sugar helps cut that so last year I made a lot of blackberry jam. I probably have enough to get through this year so I’m looking for alternative ideas for long term storage. If not I’ll make more jam.
This year won’t be a big harvest as we cut down so much last year. This means there won’t be enough to make wine.
I had a family friend of my Nana from Hungary make a dessert from blueberries before my eyes when I was 14.
Rinse and place blueberries in a saucepan. If they’re a bit tart, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons of sugar. Warm of medium heat until some of the berries pop, creating juice. Optionally, add 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice. Remove from heat and let cool. Serve warm or chilled with a large dollop of sour cream.
Oh, yes. Sounds delicious.
I bet any kind of cream would work, ice cream, whipped, clotted, etc.
We make freezer jam and give them out as stocking stuffers fitting the holidays.
We have a ton of fresh strawberries from a farm that’s lets you pick your own. My partner plans to bake a pie tomorrow.
We have a wonderful restaurant some 30 kilometers up the Rhine from here that specializes in blackberries. Waffles with vanilla ice cream and blackberry sauce. Blackberry spritzer. Blackberry wine and liquor. They also sell a wonderful blackberry syrup and blackberry jelly.
Cobbler!
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So, OP, what did you decide on?
Nothing yet. Still collecting more and freezing for later.
I’m glad you’re saving them :)
I just made a standard peanut butter and jelly with crunchy peanut butter and raspberry jam. I simply added a layer of the black berries in. It worked pretty well. It wasn’t until the last bites that the acridness started to surface.
If you have space in your freezer, freeze them in portions for quick ice cream: use a blender with about equal parts yoghurt and frozen blackberries, sugar to taste (depends on the berries)
I still have Frozen from last year
If you drink, a simple syrup to use with cocktails
Ice Cream, cheesecake, syrups for cocktails, fermented drinks…
They also freeze really well. Dehydrating them isn’t really an option as they’ll disintegrate, but if you want to take that to the next level, they freeze dry fairly okay for later use.
I’ve made all kinds of fruit galette with marzipan. Blueberry is my fav, but blackberry is also great!
https://www.tashasartisanfoods.com/blog/apple-marzipan-galette/
Blackberry cider?
Check that pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCj2_Jr-ymU I made it last year that was delicious
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/244756/blackberry-crisp/
Super good with vanilla ice cream.
burn them to the ground, then let pigs dig up the roots, have goats eat any new creepers that come back until you can get pigs to dig the roots up again.
Also run them over with a 4x4 to help keep them down until you are ready to set them to blaze.
or did you mean the berries not the vines?
Most of the plants are actually on my neighbor’s land and crap over our property line. We have unlimited access. So I can cut them down but pigs, goats and fire would mess up their corn and soy beans. That might get our rights revoked.
Lol no worries mostly just having some fun.
I grew up on 5 acres and they are such an invasive species. There was an awesome story on the Internet years ago about the Pacific North West Himalayan blackberry wars. Whoever wrote that story did it like a war journal. It was excellent for someone who had to fetch toys that ended up in the black berry bushes
They are invasive. We destroy large sections all the time just to rotate the canes.
We destroy large sections all the time
You are making this dude so happy
