Berry nice
Aug. 10th, 2020 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI'm still averaging two quarts of blackberries every second day from the patch in our back yard. We've made jam twice, 9 pints total, baked a pie (needed more sugar, but nice with ice cream), and frozen a bunch. What else can I do with this bounty?
Blackberry syrup.
Take a cup of water, a cup of sugar, two cups of berries, mashed. Put in a two-quart sauce pan with a teaspoon of dry pectin and a dab of butter. Bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, cool a little, and run through a sieve to remove the seeds and skins. (I use my balloon whisk to squeeze out as much juice and pulp as possible.
Serve over waffles, pancakes, or vanilla bean ice cream. I'm also gonna try a shot in seltzer water, make my own blackberry soda.
(The plate is by Don Clarke, of Strictly Functional Pottery, by the way.)
Blackberry syrup.
Take a cup of water, a cup of sugar, two cups of berries, mashed. Put in a two-quart sauce pan with a teaspoon of dry pectin and a dab of butter. Bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, cool a little, and run through a sieve to remove the seeds and skins. (I use my balloon whisk to squeeze out as much juice and pulp as possible.
Serve over waffles, pancakes, or vanilla bean ice cream. I'm also gonna try a shot in seltzer water, make my own blackberry soda.
(The plate is by Don Clarke, of Strictly Functional Pottery, by the way.)