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Blackberries always taste really good with just a crisp topping too... faster than a pie and oh so good! (Butter, rolled oats, and brown sugar)
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Just bake all those things together?
I'm not fond of all those seeds in blackberries. I love them when you find them perfectly ripe, but they only stay nice for such a short period of time, I had gotten to the point I usually just eat the perfect ones off the vine and leave the rest. But this year I vow we will do better.
I am going to tell my sons if they want jam, they had better free-range like the goats.
I'm not fond of all those seeds in blackberries. I love them when you find them perfectly ripe, but they only stay nice for such a short period of time, I had gotten to the point I usually just eat the perfect ones off the vine and leave the rest. But this year I vow we will do better.
I am going to tell my sons if they want jam, they had better free-range like the goats.
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Because of the seeds, I find that blackberries are better as a jelly instead of a jam.
That reminds me, I have a bunch of berries in my yard, I'm not sure what they are. The plant looks like a raspberry, but the berries taste like blackberry. I didn't plant them, they came up on their own, and they're loaded! I'll be making jelly myself this week.
That reminds me, I have a bunch of berries in my yard, I'm not sure what they are. The plant looks like a raspberry, but the berries taste like blackberry. I didn't plant them, they came up on their own, and they're loaded! I'll be making jelly myself this week.
I'm not fond of the seeds either, and I've never tried jelly, only jam. It seems like such a waste to throw away most of the fruit with the seeds.
Yea! that Henry has a home. I could never do what you do, it would be so hard to let go of them when it is time.
Yea! that Henry has a home. I could never do what you do, it would be so hard to let go of them when it is time.
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Berry crisp
Ingredients
2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1-1/2 teaspoons water
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup cold butter
Vanilla ice cream
Directions
Place blackberries in a greased 1-qt. baking dish. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cornstarch, water and lemon juice until smooth. Pour over berries. Combine the oats, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over berries.
Bake, uncovered, at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until filling is bubbly. Serve warm with ice cream. Yield: 2 servings.
I do these a lot since it's so fast.
Ingredients
2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1-1/2 teaspoons water
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup cold butter
Vanilla ice cream
Directions
Place blackberries in a greased 1-qt. baking dish. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cornstarch, water and lemon juice until smooth. Pour over berries. Combine the oats, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over berries.
Bake, uncovered, at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until filling is bubbly. Serve warm with ice cream. Yield: 2 servings.
I do these a lot since it's so fast.
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i'm so glad that Fat Liver found a good home! and that you get him for a while more. isnt it fun when folks want your life? yay!
i skyped some pals in seattle yesterday and they were all in fleece and jackets - i laughed. i dont know if it was raining there but they were cold. hee hee hee we are gonna have another hotsy totsy week here again.
we love blackberries - crisp and as jam.
i skyped some pals in seattle yesterday and they were all in fleece and jackets - i laughed. i dont know if it was raining there but they were cold. hee hee hee we are gonna have another hotsy totsy week here again.
we love blackberries - crisp and as jam.
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Oh, that berry crisp looks so yummy, I can't wait to try that. You should see how many blackberry plants grow around here. We have worked hard to have the goats eat the major berry areas on our property that are accessible (some part of our property are too densely forested to really get to at this point), but the section of Washington that I live in is NEVER far from blackberries. We had them springing up all over in our suburban backyard!
And yes, we are still wearing coats. It has been a very cold year so far. I do wear layers....I get cold in the morning and the constant drizzle chills everything out. I'm going to have a hard time with some of the warm-weather crops I planted, but there is still hope. If nothing else, I'm making a lot of good rabbit and chicken food.
Would that berry crisp recipe work on any berries? I'd love to go huckleberry picking again this year, anyone like them? They are by far our favorite berry. We do have huckleberry bushes but we have the "wrong" kind and the "right" kind only grow at a higher elevation than we are at. But one of our favorite summer passtimes has been driving up to hand collect huckleberries. Our favorite picking spot is actually not far as the crow flies from where we live, but the roads don't go that direction so it is a little discouraging and we haven't spent the gas to discover where the berries are growing closer. However I'm sure that around Mt. Saint Helens they must be growing, so at some point we need to go on a berry hunting expedition. I think I may invite the friends of Trouble to go with us and try to make a fun day of it.
And yes, we are still wearing coats. It has been a very cold year so far. I do wear layers....I get cold in the morning and the constant drizzle chills everything out. I'm going to have a hard time with some of the warm-weather crops I planted, but there is still hope. If nothing else, I'm making a lot of good rabbit and chicken food.
Would that berry crisp recipe work on any berries? I'd love to go huckleberry picking again this year, anyone like them? They are by far our favorite berry. We do have huckleberry bushes but we have the "wrong" kind and the "right" kind only grow at a higher elevation than we are at. But one of our favorite summer passtimes has been driving up to hand collect huckleberries. Our favorite picking spot is actually not far as the crow flies from where we live, but the roads don't go that direction so it is a little discouraging and we haven't spent the gas to discover where the berries are growing closer. However I'm sure that around Mt. Saint Helens they must be growing, so at some point we need to go on a berry hunting expedition. I think I may invite the friends of Trouble to go with us and try to make a fun day of it.
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I usually double batch my black raspberries and black berries!valmom said:
First you cook them to make the juice for jelly and then, after draining that juice off, you measure the amount and then add that amount of water back into the drained berries. After simmering a bit again you now have the basics for one batch of jelly and another batch of jam from the same berries!
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Oh! That's great!!!Farmfresh said:I usually double batch my black raspberries and black berries!
First you cook them to make the juice for jelly and then, after draining that juice off, you measure the amount and then add that amount of water back into the drained berries. After simmering a bit again you now have the basics for one batch of jelly and another batch of jam from the same berries!
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Well that is good to know. I guess like making ricotta from the whey, or re-using tea bags, it is great to know you can stretch the food dollar that way. Does the jelly have seeds in it that way? Which batch gets the seeds?
I was also thinking about making blackberry syrup. We use a lot of maple syrup, honey, etc., for flavoring and blackberry syrup would be such a cool thing to have on hand to supplement since we don't have the right trees or bees.
I would love to keep bees, but I'm allergic. Hubby keeps saying he wants to keep them, but with most projects, he sets it up and I end up maintaining it. With bees, it would not be that way, so as much as I'd love the beeswax and the honey is so healthful for me, I can't really go there. The doctor told me the more times I'm stung the worse my allergy will get so to avoid it. I haven't been stung now in about 10 years so I'd like to keep it that way, considering how much time I spend outdoors. I found that always wearing shoes outside makes all the difference, most of my bee stings happened when walking barefoot through grass.
I was also thinking about making blackberry syrup. We use a lot of maple syrup, honey, etc., for flavoring and blackberry syrup would be such a cool thing to have on hand to supplement since we don't have the right trees or bees.
I would love to keep bees, but I'm allergic. Hubby keeps saying he wants to keep them, but with most projects, he sets it up and I end up maintaining it. With bees, it would not be that way, so as much as I'd love the beeswax and the honey is so healthful for me, I can't really go there. The doctor told me the more times I'm stung the worse my allergy will get so to avoid it. I haven't been stung now in about 10 years so I'd like to keep it that way, considering how much time I spend outdoors. I found that always wearing shoes outside makes all the difference, most of my bee stings happened when walking barefoot through grass.
