422579 Wed Jul 18 22:49:38 -0700 2007 10 31 Home Cooking 0 2763401 I'm already thinking of: blackberry ice cream and sorbet blackberry ginger/lemon sauce blackberry vanilla crisp or tart Looking for clever ideas and especially recipes for salad dressings, meat marinades, and more... Thanks! Wed Jul 18 22:49:38 -0700 2007 106581 asc339 1 2763419 Jam I loves me some blackberry jam... Blackberries are illegal here. Considered floral vermin. If you do find a stand, you can't be sure that the local council hasn't sprayed 'em, so long gone are the days of my youth where we'd all go out and harvest them from the bush, take 'em home and Grandma would turn them into jam. **nostalgic sigh** Wed Jul 18 23:06:02 -0700 2007 2763401 86137 purple goddess 2 2763523 Where abouts do you live? there should be a law against that. I have some frozen blackberries and blue berries that I am going to make some jam out of them. I have not heard of such a thing. I use to do the same thing when I was a kid, come home with a bucket full of blackberries and mother would make a blackberry cobbler. It was one of my dad`s favorites. we would have blackberry stain all over our faces. those were the days. thanks for the memories..... Thu Jul 19 03:38:07 -0700 2007 2763419 50491 bigjimbray 2 2763797 I, too, find it really strange that a municipality would outlaw blackberries. Am keeping an eye on the ones in the Bois de Vincennes, which I usually make into "blackberry crisp" (topped with butter-sugar-flour and baked). I'm too lazy to make jam. A visiting worrier once told me you could get a bad disease from fox pee on the blackberries, but I must already be immune. Thu Jul 19 06:37:07 -0700 2007 2763419 42728 Amanita 2 2763983 purple goddess, where are you? I know they can really get out of control but that sounds like crazy talk! I'm with Amanita, too lazy to make jam (though I love it!) and more likely to make a cobbler or crisp... any other ideas? Thu Jul 19 07:35:39 -0700 2007 2763419 106581 asc339 1 2764073 I like to lightly puree the blackberries in a food processor, strain the seeds out, add a little sugar to taste, and add to a good-quality yogurt like Strauss. You can just swirl some through or mix it completely. You can do the same thing with frozen yogurt -- for that, I use the recipe from Cook's Illustrated 'Dessert Bible'. Thu Jul 19 08:04:25 -0700 2007 2763401 14047 TerriL 1 2764084 It's not clever at all, but what is wrong with taking a bunch of them and making a pie. Blackberries are just about the best thing that ever happened to pie, since the idea of the pie shell first come to be. A couple pints of blackberries, a little cornstarch, some sugar, mix together the sugar and starch, fold in the blackberries, pour the whole thing into a pie shell, back, and then you will have something heavenly. Thu Jul 19 08:07:49 -0700 2007 2763401 18017 Captain 2 2766423 blackberry-apple pie is also very good. Thu Jul 19 18:26:53 -0700 2007 2764084 11190 fara 1 2766431 an over-abundance of blackberries, wow! just about the best thing to have. things I would make: blackberry panna cotta (very simple just cream and gelatin) blackberry clafoutis blackberry and apple pie or as a fruit fritter blackberries with sugar and fresh cream blackberry pancakes (probably sliced in half) Thu Jul 19 18:29:25 -0700 2007 2763401 11190 fara 1 2766466 I make small cobblers or crisps in the small loaf pan enough for two. I like blackberry and peach, or just blackberry. I make them and freeze them raw, and I have fresh cobblers all year long. Always something on hand, also give as gifts throughout the year. Thu Jul 19 18:46:57 -0700 2007 2763401 62097 paprkutr 1 2767500 About a year ago, Savuer published a recipe for a fizzy, semi-fermented blackberry drink they supposedly make in the south. It sounded delicious, but I tossed the recipe because I no longer live in blackberry country. It was easy to make; maybe someone will chime in with details. Fri Jul 20 08:01:41 -0700 2007 2763401 46956 maestra