Monday 7 September 2009

I'm jammin'






"Let's go to the park" I said
"It's bedtime" said OS and then realising his mistake "yeh! I'll get my trainers"
"Which park?" said YS
"The one with the blackberries of course!" I said.
Groans all round.
"You are such a pikey!" says OH (supportively)
"O contraire" says I "'tis all the rage these days to gather food from the wild and grow one's own"
"Never thought of you as a trendsetter" he replied.

Half an hour later and I was on the way home to bath and bed the boys and knock off a swift five pots of blackberry jam (seedless - does that mean it's jelly?)

Yum!

5 comments:

  1. You got a good haul there. I think a jelly is when you discard the fruit and use the juices.

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  2. I've been out gathering elder berries from the city streets!(only picking from quiet roads though to avoid exhaust pollution). Once you start looking they're everywhere - small areas of waste ground, or alongside verges, self sown in amenity planting areas and so on. Am going to make elder berry syrup (which you can use like a cordial or in a hot toddy etc). It's basically the berries, water and sugar. Very tasty (I made some last year) and apparently high in vitamin C -

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  3. it's jelly if you drain out all the pulp and seeds...otherwise it's seedless jam...how do you take out just the seeds????

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  4. Jelly it is. Just take out the seeds? Easy, the pulp got squidged through the sieve then I got the chickens to help clear up...

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  5. Ooooh thats sounds good, I have never made jam with blackberries before, I think I will have a go, maybe put some apples with it. You trendsetter you !!! ha ha

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