It’s a veritable blackberry feast around here.
Blackberries with cream
Blackberries with ice cream
Blackberry crumble (dessert last night and the night before)
... and today...
Blackberry Jam.
Make a small batch first, to see how it goes.
Get your children to pick 500g of blackberries,
Watch that hand. It steals.
See?
Mash em up in a bit pot. Enlist the help of a small child to do this part as it’s tedious.
Stir them for five minutes. Make the small child do this bit too.
Add 400g sugar and stir until dissolved.
Boil rapidly for five or ten minutes until setting point is reached.
Pour into hot sterilised jars and seal when cold.
Take all the credit, ignoring small child’s protests.
(This amount only made two jars’ worth. Next time I’ll get the children to pick two kilos of berries. Heaven knows, we have plenty to spare.)
Tomorrow, for something completely different, there will be a birth story on this blog. Stay tuned. Or not. Whatever.
11 comments:
jam aside, you know how I love birth stories.
feral blackberries - lol. i can just see them with their glinty eyes and pointy teeth.
the jam is so pretty.
The blackberries are feral here as well. You can almost literally watch them creep. Very scary.
ha! now i know why i had a child...slave labor.
Scones, I say! Scones with cream and the jam. Yum!
Oh, and birth stories... should we be scared? (I always frighten people with mine)
So nice of your son to be helpful in the kitchen. That jam looks divine!
YUM. Yum..
Blackberries AND birth stories all on one blog?? Can it be true??
Yum! Yum! Yum!
I'm envious! Our weather never got quite warm enough to ripen the berries this year. I'm so jealous!
Feral blackberries?
Band name!
Berries? you have BERRIES now? Hah!
(later) don'z know what i was going to write. Had tow little girls selling chocolates for the blue cross (what the heck is that?) at the door. I bought one in honor of your son. Does he like swiss chocolate?
Julia (age 3 1/2) is standing between my knees as I read this post, and as the pictures scrolled by, she said, "Jam! Mmmm!"
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