Bramble jelly

[bunn]

Last year I made bramble jelly, and very nice it was too..

I made more today! I did 1 pint of juice to 1 pound of sugar, but I *think* this has produced a rather sweeter jelly than last year, so I may experiment with using less sugar in another batch. Once again, it took far longer than expected to reach the setting point, I must have been boiling it for over an hour.

I picked another pound of berries in Calstock this evening: the plan for those is blackberry liqueur only I need to buy some more vodka.

The hounds think blackberry picking is rather dull, but I enjoy it so they just have to put up with mooching about in idyllic settings being bored. Most dogs would enjoy that sort of thing.

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

My family's dog-of-a-lifetime used to love blackberrying. This was because he adored the taste of blackberries. If they were really ripe and in a decent place to do it he would eat them off the bush. Otherwise, because he knew he must not eat them out of the punnet or basket, he used to sneak up and knock that over with his paw so he could scoff them off the ground.