What should I do (with all of this fruit)?

by Jamelle on August 10, 2009

So, I went blackberry picking this weekend, and now I have an unreasonable number of blackberries in my fridge.  I made a cobbler last night – and I intend to make another – but I’ll still have a ton of blackberries left over.  Any suggestions for what to do with them (besides nom them as is, which is a very real option).


Tagged as: baking, blackberries, food

{ 10 comments }

1 Jaybird August 10, 2009 at 8:57 am

Blackberry wine!

2 Sam M August 10, 2009 at 9:08 am

Smoothies.

Add rum for Daquiri version.

Always comes back to booze, no?

3 shani-o August 10, 2009 at 9:38 am

Blackberry jam! My mom used to make that when we had bushes in the yard. Best jam ever.

4 Elizabeth McCullough August 10, 2009 at 9:52 am

Ditto for jam.

5 Charles Schirra August 10, 2009 at 10:05 am

Candy them

6 Steven Donegal August 10, 2009 at 10:23 am

put them in a layer on a cookie sheet and freeze them. Put the frozen berries in freezer bags and have cobbler all winter.

7 John Schwenkler August 10, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Double ditto on the jam. If you don’t want to go to the work of buying and sterilizing jars (which isn’t that overwhelming, really), you can just stick it in the fridge and it should keep for a month at least.

8 North August 11, 2009 at 7:49 am

I must agree with the commentariat: preserve them. You can steralize jars simply by putting them in the oven for a few minutes. Making jelly or Jam is rediculously easy, essentially just a matter of adding sugar and slow stewing. Turning them into jelly entails merely straining out the pulp and adding coagulant. internet search yourself some recepies and do it. You’ll be singing your own praise all winter long for just a couple of hours of work and 20 bucks worth of materials.

9 Jamelle August 11, 2009 at 8:57 am

So, I decided to forgo the jam and simply freeze them, to make cobbler at a later date. Thanks for the suggestions!

10 Katherine August 12, 2009 at 9:09 pm

If you’ve got a lot of spare time, I’d put in a vote for blackberry jam.

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