Showing my city boy iggorance....
Aside from a compote, jam, or jelly, can blackberries/raspberries be preserved? Dehydrated, perhaps? or canned whole?
Have to admit, I'd not mind the compote... less sugar and less processing.
Showing my city boy iggorance....
Aside from a compote, jam, or jelly, can blackberries/raspberries be preserved? Dehydrated, perhaps? or canned whole?
Have to admit, I'd not mind the compote... less sugar and less processing.
We freeze them for my wife's breakfast smoothies, and if we don't have time to cook down, and strain them all at once for jam. I'm not hot on fresh blackberries, but I do like the jam a lot.Originally Posted by Kesephist
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I like them plain, with a little sugar fresh, mixed with strawberries and blueberries. They are great in a cobbler or mixed with other fruit in a smoothie. Plus jelly and jam. Also good as a topping on pancakes.
They soak up alcohol nicely in Sangria...
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We just canned the black berries whole with about a teaspoon of sugar. Worked nice and tasted awesome as ice cream topping.
The wife makes an awesome Kiwi/Blueberry jelly and a Kiwi /Strawberry jelly.
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My wife wanted blueberries so I planted two blueberry bushes this year. They have what I think is a good crop for such small bushes. Now if I can just keep birds and bears from getting to my berries...
I know you can get netting to go over the bushes. They're supposed to keep the birds off the bushes. Don't know about the bears though, they might think you gift wrapped the berries up for them as presents, LOL
Yesterday, Mothers' Day we harvested our first few blueberries. My wife was thrilled! In just a few minutes I will go out and see if we have more ready to harvest. I have to beat the birds to them!
I'm doing the same with strawberries, getting a few big fat ones every day but we have to be quick, we had a bird figure out how to defeat the netting last week. He's gonna die.
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