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One of my favourite memories from childhood is going blackberry picking along the lanes near where we lived. The scrapes we got from the brambles were worth it once we’d collect a bucket full of berries for mum to turn into a crumble. I remember always finding the ripest, juiciest, plumpest berry just a little too high to reach.
And one of the best things I think about being a parent is sharing your memories with your children and getting to do all the fun things again with them. This week we’ve made the most of a few sunny evenings and been blackberry picking on the lane nearby. B and L had a little wicker basket to fill – although most of theirs were eaten before we got home.
(If you haven’t got any wild blackberries near you, how about visiting a pick your own farm?)
And what to do with your blackberries?
The girls wanted to make juice so they squashed and sieved some berries and mixed it with apple juice. It tasted great (and gave you a wonderfully purple moustache when you drank it!)
I love to make a blackberry and apple crumble with a topping made from 3oz butter rubbed into 6oz flour, with a 1oz of butter and 3 tablespoons of oats sprinkled in – maybe some cinnamon too.
English Mum has a recipe for blackberry jam I’m going to try.
The Pioneer Woman’s recipe for blackberry ice cream would be great to go in the homemade cornettos we made yesterday.
Do you have any blackberries growing near you? Or any recipe ideas to share?
I loved picking blackberries as a child & eating them raw. not my favourite fruit cooked though.
Ah yes I have happy blackberry picking memories too! Such fun especially eating them as you go! I love blackberry and apple crumble mmm so many flavours of autumn. The ones you have in your photo look lovely and juicy-yum!
Oh yes, blackberry picking is a favourite childhood memory of mine too and we are very lucky now to have some fabulous bushes near our house and off road! So Red Ted and us will be going too (we have had the odd berry but haven’t been “proper blackberry picking” with him yet…)
We have lots of wild blackberries near us. So many that we no longer need puddings, we just take the dogs for a walk after dinner!
I have been known to do a crumble but I’ve never made blackberry jam so I’ve saved the link to have a go at it.
We adore blackberry picking too, but too early for us on the cold east cost!
we went strawberry and raspberry picking at the weekend and are going to make jam… they now want to pick blackberries and I think we will make some juice too
Oh you have just brought back my memories of blackberry picking. Used to go behind my mums, I wonder whether it is still there to take Baba? It was great fun, thank you for that xx