Comments | mizkit: Kitsnacks: Blackberry Jam

mizkit

Kitsnacks: Blackberry Jam

Sep 18, 2015 10:26

I’ve been going out and getting nettle-stung in search of the wild blackberries that are growing in our garden. (Nettles offend me mightily. Plants do not try to kill you in the land of my people, at least, nothing but Devil’s Club, and Devil’s Club looks like it wants to kill you from forty feet away.) Anyway, I’m apparently too easily taunted by ( Read more... )

recipes, kitsnacks, jam, cooking

Comments 11

herefox September 18 2015, 15:47:48 UTC

I used to be known to wade through the brambles of my parent's blackberry bushes to get all the berries I could. Mom was patient with the various scratches that I would accumulate and the fact that I'd come back with about a half cup of berries and a purple mouth.

Sadly I don't have access to any bushes these day so I'm living vicariously through you!

gows September 18 2015, 19:17:47 UTC

FWIW, The Land of Your People does indeed have nettles. I have met them.

And while most of the vegetation there may not actively be trying to kill you, the rest of the environment is (although not as bad as Australia!), so it's all kind of a wash.

mizkit September 18 2015, 19:22:47 UTC

I have never met nettles in the land of my people! Huh!

Yes, but I KNOW a bear is going to try to kill me! I don't expect PLANTS to! :)

gows September 18 2015, 19:23:42 UTC

And, because I thought you'd find this as interesting as I do, the Latin name for Devil's Club is O. horridus, and it apparently has a number of medicinal uses.

Why the Tlingit would consider it sacred is beyond me, though. *shudder*

mizkit September 18 2015, 19:29:48 UTC

I knew none of that at all! Although, IDK, I'd say there's a certain logic in considering something that will WRACK YOU WITH PAIN as sacred. "Don't touch that mofo, it's sacred, no, srsly, that shit will SACRED YOU TO DEATH if it gets the chance, worship the bastard, don't touch it."

But also the medicinal value might have something to do with it. What I want to know is how somebody figured out that the Spiky Club of Pain and Doom was good for anything...

Thread 5

deborahblakehps September 18 2015, 23:31:04 UTC

They sent in someone they didn't like to find out...

Also, please feel free to send me some jam. Thank you very much.

(The comment has been removed)

mizkit September 19 2015, 18:00:56 UTC

It keeps the foam down, so you don't lose as much to skimming it off, if you're the sort who tries to keep the jam 100% pretty with no discolored bits. :)

c_maxx September 20 2015, 22:12:28 UTC

Do you hae any shirts tough enough to protect the arms, or is it hand-stung you get ( ... )