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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.
He goes out picking at least twice a week and brings back several pounds each time.
We have had blackberry pies,with and without apple,likewise crumbles.Summer puddings,blackberry muffins,jam,jelly.
Please thjink of something else I can do with them.

Pleas

Send some to me please! lol x

Blackberry Pavlova?

Blackbery muffins?

Freeze the berries for later in the year!

Sharon.

Get your father started on making blackberry wine, it will take a few weeks before you can drink it, I think he'll find it very interesting to do,
it doesn't even stop with blackberries.
Margaret

Blackberry chutney...?

There's a few recipes if you Google.


Gwyn

Blackberry sauce, for ice cream etc

Gail

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.
Julia in Derbyshire

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.
The wine is out of the question,he's menace enough in that wheelchair as it is without the help of blackberry wine and I doubt anybody would drink it.
Blackberry chutney looks like a possibility.
Keep em coming,he certainly does.

Sharron, you certainly cheer up my day, love your comments, lol.

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.

Sharron just seen your reply, wmsl.................will l ever forget you, everytime l see a smart car l think of you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharron, you are amazing and inspiring the way you look after your Dad and get paid in blackberries lol

Keep up the good work, you are a tonic!

Lizx

Sharon

Well done,persuading your dad to have something worthwhile to do! How about putting your question on Culinary Delights, I am sure that you will have lots of recipes then and you could share some of your own.

My mouth is watering at the thought of fresh blackberries, we can't grow them where I live.


Bridget

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.

Rose

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.
Sent home to die because he was making no progress two and a half years ago.If only he could find the time!

We don't even need to make marmalade next season either,we made enough last January.

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

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.
If you had your stroke in April you are probably still in one of those chairs that can only be used indoors,in theory,he had one for a while.Then,when they think you are competent in that,and you have no doorposts left indoors,they let you take a test and have a big one.Then you are motoring!
I am supposed to think he can't get up the garden in it but I have seen him do it.He knows the more I know he can do the more I will make him try.Poor old devil!

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.
Keep up the good work Sharon and love to your dad
Love Mary xx

I deleted as my reply came up twice !!!
Love Mary xx

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.
Keep up the good work Sharrons dad, and please keep up the reports Sharron, I love the way you write about things happening, you have such a good way with words.

Caz xx