Blackberries - What to do with them?
07-20-2011, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
My blackberries are always so extremely sour! I'm growing a variety called Illini, which I chose because it was the most hardy. But... I would have to add as much sugar as there are berries.
Anybody else growing other varieties that are sweeter?
Anybody else growing other varieties that are sweeter?
07-20-2011, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
. . . After a week or so, I would label them "Blackberry Jelly" and if they were still liquid even though sealed, then I labeled them "Blackberry Pancake Syrup" and all were happy.
07-20-2011, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by QultingaddictUK
The best use of blackberries ever IMO, make your own Blackberry Vodka for a special Christmas liqueur
1 litre supermarket own label vodka
600g freshly picked blackberries
300g sugar
Add the blackberries and sugar to a storage jar, a Wine making glass jar is idea, close the jar and give the jar a good shake to make sure the contents are thoroughly stirred up. Repeat this every day for a month. It takes a few days for the sugar to fully dissolve.
Then shake it up once a month for the following two months. (Try not to test it each time, hard but .....)
Serve neat, chilled in a special glass.
Drain off the fruit and serve on top of Ice cream, ADULTS only :twisted:
1 litre supermarket own label vodka
600g freshly picked blackberries
300g sugar
Add the blackberries and sugar to a storage jar, a Wine making glass jar is idea, close the jar and give the jar a good shake to make sure the contents are thoroughly stirred up. Repeat this every day for a month. It takes a few days for the sugar to fully dissolve.
Then shake it up once a month for the following two months. (Try not to test it each time, hard but .....)
Serve neat, chilled in a special glass.
Drain off the fruit and serve on top of Ice cream, ADULTS only :twisted:
07-20-2011, 09:58 AM
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my mother would boil the berries in a little water.starin out the seeds and can the juice for jams and jellies. She eould make some in the summer but wewould always run out before winter was out so she would make more with the juice
07-20-2011, 10:38 AM
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