Berries!

[sparkindarkness]

 The beginning of September's coming up which means I should be seeing the end of Beloved's first harvest from the garden. I could ask him if there's a lot more summer fruit to pick, but I live in fear of him saying "yes."

Don't get me wrong, i mean he has managed to stick to this obsession for years now - that's almost unprecedented with him!

Comments

[spinsterwithin]

Aren't currents used for wine? I think I have heard of "red currant wine" on TV before so it must be true.

[sparkindarkness]

can't anything be used to make wine? :)

[buddykat]

If it weren't for the fact that I'm on the wrong side of the pond, I'd say to send some of that jam to me... I'm well aware that it's half sugar, but I love it anyways.

[sparkindarkness]

I use it in baking but everywhere else it's just tooooo sweet and the evil sugar! EEEEVIL SUGAR!

[tattooofhername]

Take gin or vodka. Soak fruit in alcohol. Drink alcohol.

[sparkindarkness]

ALCOHOL! I may be a blasphemer for not having thought of this sooner

[northwestmagpie]

I would love some of the jam, if I weren't in North America and shipping thus cost half the earth, at least. Especially the cherries and currants. I love currant jam, especially in peanut butter sandwiches. Yum.

But gooseberries? Yikes. My grandfather loved them, but I always heard of them being used in pies. I have yet to gather up enough courage to MAKE one. They look like skinned grapes, and unfortunately I don't want to bite into one after making that connection.

[sparkindarkness]

Peanut butter and jam disturbs me muchly, yes yes it does

I use them in pies with a lot of sweet things they're nice. But not nice enough to eat 7 or 8 of them

[bugeyedmonster]

I'll confess to still eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches with chocolate milk. Hee! (Even though I suspect I may be developing a peanut allergy. Either that or a wheat allergy.)

[jerril]

Gooseberry jam, nod. It's sort of a bitter-marmalade type situation - you either love the stuff, or you think it's freakish.

Second the currant jam and peanut-butter!

[wyrdrune]

Freeze it and use it to make fruit smoothies - take 200gms of assorted fruits, add 1/2 pint of milk, blend, drink.

[wyrdrune]

Although defrost the fruit first... :)

[sparkindarkness]

Hmmmm smoothies. Ah for all but the gooseberries.