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August 14, 2006
No knitting, but lots of jelly
Autumn in a jar
Y'all may know that I have a bit of a thing about preserves. Proper seville marmalade, wild scottish raspberry, that sort of thing. I was devastated (oh yes, that bad- ok, maybe not devastated- we'll reserve that for family deaths and war- mildly pissed off) when I heard that the blackberry bushes that I had always used and that gave good bramble, had been razed to the ground. Cheers for that, landowner. Well, hurrah! Thanks to the hawk (or maybe blackbird, as that is who we had to fight with for these babys) eyes of my MIL, we found a wild-revert cultivar bramble which had massive, ripe berries, in clusters of 7 or 8 at a go, completely untouched and covering the grounds of a falling down farmstead. And only 100 metres or so from our house. I'd never noticed it before because I had never looked for blackberries in August. That's the joy of a cultivated blackberry- it ripens a whole 1-2 months before the wild. The berries are slightly sweeter, but no difference other than that and the size.
We managed to pick 11 lbs in half an hour (and I cover my back by saying we picked that many because they were all about to fade out and rot away), resulting in a blackberry pie and 9 pots of blackberry jelly. Jelly, not jam. The pure clear deep black-purple of autumn come early. Ah. Fab.
Posted by scumkitten at August 14, 2006 10:08 AM
Mmmmmmm bramble jelly. Yum. *slurp* *drool*
Posted by: glittrgirl at August 14, 2006 11:37 AM
I have a thing for wild blackberries too. They call them dewberries here in Texas.
Amy
Posted by: Amy at August 14, 2006 11:51 AM
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