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Oooff there are a lot of blackberries around.... what can you do with them (apart from stuffing them straight from the bush into your mouth)?
 
the ones in our garden haven't come out yet but we have fuckloads of apples, plum and damsons this year
 
we went picking yesterday and got a decent little box full as well as eating loads... there was this romany family picking at the same time and they had like three prams worth of full carrier bags.
 
rutabowa said:
how long do they last? these were pretty ripe and soft...
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The ones we picked weekend before last were pretty much inedible and starting to mould over by the following Friday. They'd been washed, demaggoted and refrigerated.
 
rutabowa said:
we went picking yesterday and got a decent little box full as well as eating loads... there was this romany family picking at the same time and they had like three prams worth of full carrier bags.
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There was a family with a wheeley bin sized container when we went. I was a foot taller than any of them though so had my own personal supply.
 
Someone on here posted a recipe for blackberry and ginger cheesecake, but for some reason I only have the ingredients part of it :(

Blackberry and apple pie has to be one of my favourite pies ever.

Jam, of course - or rather, jelly. Nom!
 
right i had better make them into a pie TONIGHT. didn't bother washing or demaggoting, I am sure they are fine though, at least none of us was sick and they were all picked from high up.
 
rutabowa said:
right i had better make them into a pie TONIGHT. didn't bother washing or demaggoting, I am sure they are fine though, at least none of us was sick and they were all picked from high up.
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You're not gonna be able to de-maggot properly with blackberries anyway. In all the years I've scoffed them straight from the brambles I've never once thought 'ooo a bit of maggot'

I would put them in a colander and rinse gently though
 
they are so ripe that i reckon even washing them will mush them up and lose juice.... i just threw away any that looked even vaguely damaged so i think will be ok.
 
rutabowa said:
d they were all picked from high up.
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glad someone does, I've been noticing this year how many people get the ones really close to the ground, just at dog wee height :(

as for what to do with them, if you can't decide freeze them for later. If you do it in thin layers they freeze individually, rather than as an iceberg, so they're easy to deal with and thaw quickly. and then sometime in the winter you have a reminder of summer.
 
newbie said:
glad someone does, I've been noticing this year how many people get the ones really close to the ground, just at dog wee height :(

as for what to do with them, if you can't decide freeze them for later. If you do it in thin layers they freeze individually, rather than as an iceberg, so they're easy to deal with and thaw quickly. and then sometime in the winter you have a reminder of summer.
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good idea.
yes i do pick from high... still i don't think too much bad would happen even if you pick low. someone on facebook reckoned you could get rabies from eating wild blackberries, ha.
 
if it's on fb it must be true.

be sight this year so far was a woman picking with a small child who insisted on wiping blackberries with a wetwipre before the child could eat them :eek:
 
I had some straight from the bush yesterday but it was slim pickings. Found a massive amount of them nearby which were all red and hard. I'm going back in a few days and then I'll be blackberry king of Leeds.

:cool:
 
in comparison with most soft fruit blackberries freeze quite well. Unfortunately I lack freezer space so made about a pint of blackberry sauce with my first batch yesterday. Pies and jam next week, (season a little later in scotland) One day will make blackberry brandy
 
Still plenty out on Walthamstow Marsh - was out at the weekend and picked loads - bumper year - if you were about 12 foot tall you'd be able to reach the really juicy plump ones
 
marty21 said:
Still plenty out on Walthamstow Marsh - was out at the weekend and picked loads - bumper year - if you were about 12 foot tall you'd be able to reach the really juicy plump ones
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Walthamstow or Leyton marsh? Leyton marsh round the back of the ice rink and over by the stables is throbbing with them at the moment.
 
How you manage to keep blackberries in the fridge from weekend to Friday is beyond me.
Especially given that cold rhubarb crumble is the breakfast of the Gods.
 
trabuquera said:
How you manage to keep blackberries in the fridge from weekend to Friday is beyond me.
Especially given that cold rhubarb crumble is the breakfast of the Gods.
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When you pick 4 kilos of them cause they're free! Choice is basically mouldy blackberries or diarrhea.
 
maomao said:
Walthamstow or Leyton marsh? Leyton marsh round the back of the ice rink and over by the stables is throbbing with them at the moment.
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both - if you walk along from the ice rink - - there is also a massive bramble section under the railway tracks - where all the lines meet - we stumbled upon that a few weeks ago - also stumbled upon a gay cruising area as well :D
 
rutabowa said:
someone on facebook reckoned you could get rabies from eating wild blackberries, ha.
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Not rabies but you should at least rinse them because you can get nasty diseases from mouse wee(I put a link in another fruit thread).
Also not the best idea to pick right beside a road(any fruit tbh) because they can absorb the pollution from cars apparently.
The brambles here aren't properly out yet.
 
geminisnake said:
Not rabies but you should at least rinse them because you can get nasty diseases from mouse wee(I put a link in another fruit thread).
Also not the best idea to pick right beside a road(any fruit tbh) because they can absorb the pollution from cars apparently.
The brambles here aren't properly out yet.
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I eat them straight from the bush - ate a few by the Lea Bridge Road the other day - (very busy road)

I have mouse wee and pollution in me :(
 
marty21 said:
both - if you walk along from the ice rink - - there is also a massive bramble section under the railway tracks - where all the lines meet - we stumbled upon that a few weeks ago - also stumbled upon a gay cruising area as well :D
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ha yes we did exactly the same a couple of years ago! asked some guy there for directions and he just pointed back the way we came and said "i think you should go back that way".
 
rutabowa said:
ha yes we did exactly the same a couple of years ago! asked some guy there for directions and he just pointed back the way we came and said "i think you should go back that way".
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we thought there was a short cut to the other side of the tracks - it is just a maze of walkways through the bramble with the odd clearing - took us a while to get out after walking into a wooded bit and walking straight out again after disturbing some man love :D we followed the voices of a swedish family we had seen coming in - the mother had stumbled upon manlove as well :D
 
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