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alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 9:03 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Well we'll be doing blackberry wine and Gil's blackberry port with the ones we get. That alone is 8lb of the fruit.

We probably picked that yesterday!

MornieG

Joined: 17 Jan 2013
Posts: 933
Location: Bromham, Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 11:24 am Post subject: Pork and Blackberries.........

Pork and blackberries

Slow cooked, tender pork shoulder and crisp crackling served with a fruity stock.
Ingredients

1.5kg/3lb 5oz rolled pork shoulder

800g/1lb 12oz blackberries

For the gravy

500ml/18fl oz chicken or vegetable stock

1 red onion, sliced

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp plain flour

Preparation method

Using a sharp knife, pierce the pork all over. Sit the pork in a bowl filled with the blackberries. Massage the berries into the pork crushing a few berries, and leave to marinade overnight in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3

In a roasting dish place the joint with all the marinade and roast for 1 hour 40 minutes to 2 hours, or until cooked through.

Preheat the grill to a medium heat. Remove the pork from the roasting dish and place it under the grill for 10 minutes, or until the skin is crispy.

Pour the chicken stock into the roasting dish to deglaze it, scraping the cooked pork and berries from base.

Meanwhile soften the red onion in a pan with the olive oil. Add the flour and then pour in the fruity stock, stirring constantly.

When an even crackling has formed on the joint under the grill it is ready to serve, with the stock alongside as a gravy.

Mo.XX

MornieG

Joined: 17 Jan 2013
Posts: 933
Location: Bromham, Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 12:58 pm Post subject:
Off to pick some blackberries now............. 3.30pm....maybe the 1.5kg I have picked is a little generous for the crumble I had in mind for supper tonight !! Mo.XX Last edited by MornieG on Wed Sep 04, 13 2:28 pm; edited 1 time in total

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 1:24 pm Post subject:
That sounds great too! I think I'm going to get my chef to concoct some kind of duck with blackberry sauce thing at the weekend.

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 1:42 pm Post subject:
We had a good haul here with loads more still to pick. So far we've had them for dessert three times and froze a load more, but I think there'll be plenty more for jam etc

Andrea

Joined: 02 May 2005
Posts: 2260
Location: Portugal

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 13 5:16 pm Post subject:
I've not tried this, but it looks fab. https://zombiesurvivalfoodbible.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/banana-chocolate-chip-blackberry-cake.html

Jess

Joined: 16 Mar 2009
Posts: 12
Location: West London

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 13 3:18 pm Post subject:
We also found lots of berries. I make pies ith VERY VERY generous feeling. Just add some flour or cornstarch to berries and you will get very nice feeling of the pie.

Barefoot Andrew
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Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 13 4:35 pm Post subject:
Out and about this afternoon, we may have stopped a few times for impromptu scoffing in the sunshine A.

Sherbs

Joined: 27 Apr 2007
Posts: 1931
Location: Swansea

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 13 5:32 pm Post subject:
they're looking very good round here too so I'm thinking about going BlackBerrying tomorrow. Also I found some kind of apple tree growing in the field behind the hut where the Sherbling has Brownies, the apples are very sharp and dry in flavour but bigger than your average crabapple so I don't know what they are but they might be good for some sort of jam making experiment.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15993

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 13 6:42 pm Post subject:

They could be wildings. Apple pips don't breed true, so an apple core thrown away can result in some interesting offspring. Crab apples of various sorts are sometimes planted in new hedges, and some of the apples in hedges are even quite good. There is one outside our house that produces good apples, but of course the 'tidy monkeys' have flailed it, so the only way to get the apples is to pick them off the ground.

Somewhere-by-the-river

Joined: 16 Sep 2013
Posts: 56
Location: West Wales

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 3:26 pm Post subject: blackberries

I must have about 12lb+ blackberries in my freezer - I've been making the most of it and have plans for pies, jelly, chutney, blackberry whisky and more of what I've already been making (and drinking) by the gallon...

...The River Cottage preserving book (by Pam Corbin) has a cordial recipe that is fab and works great with blackberry and apple (cookers work well, eaters not too bad though rather sweet for me, have yet to try the crab apples that I have just found at our new home - though they might go for jelly)... Really recommend it, everyone I've fed it to so far thinks it's just as good as I do.

Long last the wild harvest!

graysalchemy

Joined: 10 Oct 2012
Posts: 73

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 8:08 pm Post subject: elderberry Port

I make a rather good elderberry Port with Elders Damsons and blackberries.

per gallon

2lb damsons
2lb elderberry
2lb blackberry
1lb raisins (minced)
1 tsp pectinase
2lb of sugar

Disolve the sugar by boiling in a little water, Mash the berries to a pulp and then add raisins Sugar syrup and pectolase. Ferment on the pulp using a port yeast then after a week strain and transfere to a DJ. Leave for a few months then rack then bottle after 6 months. It will need a few years in the bottle. I have collection of aged port ranging from 10 yr old to one bottle of 20 yr old port.

Elderberry stout is also rather good also

bubble

Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 8:26 pm Post subject:

graysalchemy wrote:

where do you live

graysalchemy

Joined: 10 Oct 2012
Posts: 73

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 8:34 pm Post subject:

bubble wrote:

graysalchemy wrote:

where do you live

Purgatory

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15993

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 13 8:48 am Post subject:
Looks interesting. Thanks.

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