Wild blackberries
I’m not sure which I like better Raspberries or Blackberries but they are surely some of the best stuff on earth. Blackberries probably win out because I remember a few family memories around picking blackberries. I discovered a number of wild blackberry bushes turkey hunting this year so I’ve been watching them mature. Well last week I check on them and knew they’d be ready this week. The thought of blackberry pies and maybe some blackberry jam was running through my mind all week.
This weekend I headed out to pick them and I discovered that trespassers had beaten me to them. The tell tale 4 wheeler tracks across the fields was all I needed to see to know that we had lost our wild crop. What should have been an easy effort turned into a chore to find pockets of berries that the trespassers had missed. I ended up with enough to make one pie which was pretty awesome.
Blackberry Pie
I use a pretty basic recipe 1 ¼ cup of sugar ½ cup flour pinch of salt 4 cups of berries mix the dry ingredients then mix the berries in. Put into a pie shell cook at 375 for about 45 minutes.
As for what to do about trespassers I guess we’ll have to catch some and make examples out of them. This is the same place where I had two guys walk in on me when I was working a gobbler this past season. I don’t know why people don’t respect private property but it is ongoing issues for a lot of people not just us.
Well I can’t worry about that now just sit here and enjoy my pie and the Red Sox game. Summer is here so stay cool and enjoy natures bounty.
