Michelle Darmody: Here's how to cook with blackberries

Delights of blackberry picking... enjoying the bounty
Michelle Darmody: Here's how to cook with blackberries

Recipes With These Blackberries Incorporate Your Baking Into Delicious

Blackberry picking is a nice old tradition that is immortalised in Seamus Heaney’s poem about the inevitable passage of time.
If out picking yourself it is good to aim for the shiniest, blackest berries, ones that come off the stalk with ease.

It is also worth dressing for the occasion. Denim is good at warding off the thorny brambles, and a long sleeve top is very welcome, a dark-coloured one which will not stain too easily.

We were always advised by my grandmother to avoid picking blackberries on a rainy day, or else your jam and bakes would go mouldy. I have always adhered to her advice, and it has served me well.

If you have a particularly successful day of picking you can always freeze some of your bounty. If freezing is not possible jam is the most obvious thing to make. It preserves the late-summer flavour throughout the winter months. If well sealed in a sterilised jar the jam will last for the whole year ahead.

You can also lightly crush the blackberries and stir in with a teaspoon or two of golden caster sugar and eat this with yoghurt or use it as an addition to desserts.

Chocolate tart served with blackberries

Recipe By:michelle Darmody

Picking Enjoying The Blackberry Bounty Delights Of

Chocolate tart served with blackberries

Servings

4

Time Preparation

2 hours 0 mins

Time Cooking

17 mins

Total Time

2 hours 17 mins

Course

Dessert

ingredients

  • Pastry The Case: for

  • Cubed Cold Butter, 140g

  • Pinch Salt Sea Of A

  • Flour, Plain 225g Sieved

  • Sugar Golden 60g Caster

  • Egg Lightly Beaten 1

  • Filling: The for

  • 300mls Cream

  • 400g Small Chocolate Size Pieces Into Even Broken Dark

  • Butter 70g

  • Extra Aside 30g Chopped Blackberries, Roughly Juice Any Set

method

  1. Large Butter In It Rub Bowl The Rough Add To The The To And Breadcrumbs Looks Like Until A Salt Flour

  2. Add Stir Together Dissolve Mixture And This Dough As A To To Until It Flour The The Slightly Into The Sugar Egg Es It

  3. Parchment In For Hours Wrap And About To Firm Fridge Place Up It Two The Baking Into

  4. The To Preheat Your 10–inch Sides Tart Flour The 180 Degrees, Oven Grease Of A Line Case With And And Parchment Base

  5. To Just Blind The 12 Minutes Roll In Nudge Case Starting A And Than Your The Colour Are Until Into Edges Larger Gently Tin The Tart Bake For Disc Pastry Just It

  6. It Brush For Allow To Golden The You Case The To The In The Egg Into Is Or Cool Pletely Tin Of Bake, Place Minutes Inside The And Another Or With Five Blind The Case Back Remove Whatever Until The Use Yolk Beans, Oven Pastry

  7. Then The Stir Firm It Five Filling Chocolate Then Stir Case And Shivering, Butter Into Before Until Add Cold Cream Remove In The It Minutes Make Glossy And Heat About The The Your To To It Just Up The Allow Until In Pour From Boils Chopped For Heat Is Tart Blackberries

  8. Some Cool Blackberries Serve Tart With The And Allow The In Extra To Fridge

Blackberry pear and ginger bake

Darmody By:michelle Recipe

Make Of Picking Blackberry A The Use To Best Your Bake Delicious

Blackberry pear and ginger bake

Servings

4

Preparation Time

10 mins

Cooking Time

20 mins

Time Total

30 mins

Course

Baking

ingredients

  • Cubed Butter, Cold 60g

  • Plain Flour 100g

  • Muscovado Sugar 60g

  • Ground Ginger Tsp 1

  • Oats 30g Porridge

  • The Filling: for

  • They Cored, And After Chopped Been Peeled Pears, Have 280g

  • Blackberries 120g

  • Sugar Golden 10g Caster

method

  1. 180°c Your Preheat To Oven

  2. Like It Flour Butter And Porridge Until The Looks Breadcrumbs The The Rough And Ginger Sugar In Rub Stir Into

  3. Over Sprinkle Chopped The Into An Topping The Them And And Pear Gently Place Toss The Very Ovenproof Press In The And Down It Sugar Fruit Blackberries Dish

  4. Is Bubbling The Twenty Top For At Golden Is Sides The Minutes And Fruit About Until The Bake

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