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Blackberries
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Sharron | Report | 2 Sep 2009 09:14 |
I thought it a good idea to suggest my dad try blackberrying last year as another thing to try in his wheelchair.He loves it. |
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LindaMcD | Report | 2 Sep 2009 09:18 |
Send some to me please! lol x |
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Helen in Kent | Report | 2 Sep 2009 09:22 |
Blackberry Pavlova? |
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Margaret | Report | 2 Sep 2009 09:48 |
Sharon. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 2 Sep 2009 10:45 |
Blackberry chutney...? |
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GranOfOzRubySlippers | Report | 2 Sep 2009 10:58 |
Blackberry sauce, for ice cream etc |
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Julia | Report | 2 Sep 2009 11:11 |
How about Blackberry Geely, as they call it in Scotland. When you have the fruit and sugar to the jam stage, you strain it through a muslin or jelly bag, and discard the fruit. Marvellous on Scotch Pancakes. |
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Sharron | Report | 2 Sep 2009 13:25 |
We have the jelly already,I even bought the proper contraption at great expense from Lakeland to make it.I don't think the sauce would get used and there is still a bit of last years jam left too. |
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*** Mummo *** | Report | 2 Sep 2009 13:34 |
Sharron, you certainly cheer up my day, love your comments, lol. |
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Sharron | Report | 2 Sep 2009 13:59 |
Mummo,you won't be looking so cheerful when the lorry pulls up outside your house loaded with that blackberry jam I am going to make you have. |
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*** Mummo *** | Report | 2 Sep 2009 19:34 |
Sharron just seen your reply, wmsl.................will l ever forget you, everytime l see a smart car l think of you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 3 Sep 2009 04:18 |
Sharron, you are amazing and inspiring the way you look after your Dad and get paid in blackberries lol |
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SpanishEyes | Report | 3 Sep 2009 06:44 |
Sharon |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 3 Sep 2009 07:32 |
We've been making blackberry smoothies and milkshakes with ours. You can use non-fat frozen yoghurt to make it a bit healthier. It's a good way way to get the kids to have fruit. |
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Sharron | Report | 3 Sep 2009 09:28 |
Blackberries are the easy bit.Once they are finished I will have a bored eighty-nine,ninety in November,year old with nothing to do apart from wash up,do his washing and drying,peel the spuds,prep the veg,fold up his clothes and fit in his busy social calendar. |
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blackrose | Report | 3 Sep 2009 09:48 |
I've always picked blackberries but following stroke in april cant get into the fields to the pick them. Luckily my sister picked a few for us. Your dad must have a good wheelchair to get near bushes put I do find picking fruit very therapeutic so one way or another hopefully I;ll manage to next year |
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Sharron | Report | 3 Sep 2009 10:05 |
Our roads are not very busy so there is not very much pollution.They don't get trimmed back like they used to either.He tells me he doesn't pick any,he just watches his mate picking but his mate tells me this is just not true,his little basin is back and forth to the box lots of times. |
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MaryinSpain | Report | 3 Sep 2009 10:13 |
Bless your dad and you too Sharon for spurring him on. My mom is 86 almost blind and cannot walk very far because of rhumatism but even so has been to Spain twice this year and coming over again in October for a week. I find it hard work pushing her wheelchair but hey ho what have I got to moan about. |
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MaryinSpain | Report | 3 Sep 2009 10:14 |
I deleted as my reply came up twice !!! |
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YorkshireCaz | Report | 3 Sep 2009 10:45 |
I had a problem with plums one year and after all the usual things I still had loads left. I made a slab cake with 1 and a half times madeira cake recipe, cooked some plums till slightly soft, put half the cake mixture in bottom of tin, then put plums over and spread out before putting rest of cake mixture on top. I had no idea how it would turn out but it was gorgeous, so much so that they kept asking for more to be made. I also used to bake a pastry case blind, put plums in bottom and cover with a nice sponge mixture, after the style of bakewell tart. I'm sure they would work with blackberries. |
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