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I had seen a recipe for it but didn't know what to do with it once I had made it.
Like those bottles of oil with a sprig of something in them that they say would make an ideal gift.I just hope nobody gives one to me because I wouldn't know what it was for,a bit like the mop,duster and Hoover really!

Has anyone suggested blackberry vinegar?
mary

Oh dear,now I am in trouble.The carers have just asked me to put something in the wash and get it dried for tonight and I have told them to ask him to do it,because I know he can.

In a minute I will go downstairs to a face like a smacked bum with piles.
And I don't care,tee-hee!

Thank you Caz.Please be careful,my head is plenty large enough as it is.

When I made the blacberry muffins I thought the mixture would probably make a pretty good pudding that would need custard.Got to have the custard!

Must finish the tomato ketchup today.Hours and hours of simmering to go yet.

Just washing and spuds and veg for the old man to do today.Unless I get the Hoover out,which doesn't seem very likely!

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Blackberry sauce, for ice cream etc

Gail

Blackberry chutney...?

There's a few recipes if you Google.


Gwyn