Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
The last blackberries… Can you believe that last week, November 6th to be precise, I picked a punnet of fresh blackberries from our 'garden'. Wow – that is one mild Fall! So, today we picked a few of the remaining apples on the tree and Duncan has just finished baking many apple & blackberry goodies! And…
After 4 days, strain the liquid into a demi-john (or carboy as it's called in North America), add the airlock bung and leave for further fermentation until the bubbling has stopped and all the sugar has been turned to alcohol by the yeast. This apparently takes "a while". We'll have to wait and see how…
Mash 20lbs of blackberries in a bucket. Add 20 pints of water, 10 pints of sugar syrup and some yeast, pectic enzyme etc. Leave for 4 days and stir daily to break up the frothy blackberry 'cap' that collects on top.
Pick 12lbs of Blackberries! So, we have 4lbs of blackberries in the freezer. We need 20lbs for our wine… So we went picking yesterday (all on our property) and this is what 12lbs of blackberries looks like! My fingers and arms are still stinging today from all the scrapes from the thorns. It's my own…
So, firstly, I should tell you that we have molto molto blackberries here. Both local and invasive types busy taking over our land! So we planned to pick a lot of the blackberries this year (slows down the seed from spreading if we eat them!). The deer of course help eat the blackberries too –…