![]() ![]() It’s a very simple “jelly roll” sponge cake, pretty hard to get wrong, a blackberry curd, and both can be made ahead. Having tried several desserts with blackberries – including some good combinations of white chocolate with blackberries and an almond ice cream with a blackberry swirl, this roulade from Gourmet’s Sweets is the one that gets the most requests on the home front. The Chester Thornless provides berries that are deliciously sweet and don’t become overly soft in extremely hot weather. Triple Crown is thornless also and produces berries for over a month – usually late July through August. Two highly recommended varieties are Triple Crown and Chester Thornless. A safer alternative is to corral your own blackberries if you have some space. A good reason to follow the old saying “Leaves of three, let them be” should you want to go blackberry picking in the wild. Blackberry brambles – and there are over 350 varieties – seem quite happy to be good neighbors to our enemy – the poison ivy army. The current plague of Himalayan blackberries in the American Northwest is yet another chapter in the weird world of Luther Burbank, but that will be another post. ![]() Blackberry plants or brambles can be incredibly invasive, particularly the Himalayan Blackberry – which did not originate near Mount Everest, but rather in Armenia. Fattest, tenderest, sweetest, she insists.)īlackberries have a longer shelf life than raspberries, since the core remains intact within the fruit when picked, whereas when a raspberry is picked the core stays on the plant. (Our sharp-penciled editor, a native Oregonian, swears there are no blackberries better than the invaders that overtake every square inch of every vacant lot - and too many gardens - in the Pacific Northwest. In the US, Oregon is considered Blackberry Central, but interestingly the largest grower and exporter of blackberries is Mexico. Each little “bobble” (or drupe in botanical parlance) in a blackberry is a single blackberry fruit with a seed in the interior. Curiously, a blackberry is not a single fruit, but rather an aggregate of little fruits, according to a British blog titled PlantLife. What’s Red When It’s GreenĪn old rural riddle asks how to tell a ripe blackberry, with the key being that an unripe one is red rather than purply black (or green, as one has every reason to expect). It’s become my favorite batter for an upside down cake and is even better with the summer blackberries available at almost every farmers market across the US. ![]() The first is an unusual blackberry upside down cake from a January 2021 post. In the last couple of years, however, I have found a few recipes that truly showcase not only the sexy shape of this little fruit, but its flavor as well. I grab blackberries too, but they used to be sort of a berry frenzy afterthought. You grab raspberries in their little half-pint boxes and hope that you get them spread on a plate in the fridge before they implode. Not like the flavor-packed low-bush variety from our New England states, but still reliable. And, of course, blueberries are always your steady and sturdy friends. When farmers markets open with their annual unveiling of produce, I go gaga (and I’m sure I am not alone) with the first strawberries that are a blessed relief from the winter’s rock-hard, oversized, white-caverned imposters bred by the Dread Driscoll Overlords (which Seymour Britchky immortalized in one of his hilarious restaurant reviews). ![]()
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