Blackberry Jam

[tamborine]

Brambles are laden with juicy sweet blackberries. Jam only takes 30mins, all organic, healthy & delicious. No fussing with pips, dead easy in regular non stick pan.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/11750/angelas-flexible-jam-recipe

[237SJ]

i used that recipe to make whortleberry jam a few years ago. I didn`t have much time to pick the whotleberries but I had enough to make 2 jars of jam. I dropped a jar in my kitchen - I was gutted

[tamborine]

I dont recognise whortleberries, have they got pips

[237SJ]

No. Whortleberries grow on Exmoor and come to fruition at the end of July. They are wild blueberries but are nothing like the blueberries that you can buy in supermarkets

[Buenchico]

'Whortleberries' sound to me like something Rambling Syd Rumpo would have encountered whilst nurdling his splod!

(There's a more accurate definition here: http://www.everythingexmoor.org.uk/encyclopedia_detail.php?ENCid=1078 )

However I'm reminded that, about half a century ago, my father and I spent several hours collecting blackberries on Rushmere Heath (on the edge of Ipswich), so that my mother could make 'bramble jelly'. What we didn't know was that they must recently have been attacked by some sort of fly so that, by the time we got them all home, they were covered in thousands of maggots!

Uugh!

[zebo]

Whortleberries sound a bit like whimberries in the North West, found up on the moors above Bolton, look like undeveloped blueberries.

[Buenchico]

It looks like you're right, Zebo.

Quote:
"Known as bilberries in the north, wortleberries in the south and blaeberries in Scotland, Shropshire whimberries are an amazing local asset".

Source:
http://www.shropshirelifemagazine.co.uk/food-drink/whimberries_shropshire_39_s_secret_superfood_1_1639410

[tamborine]

What is this fruit, theyre quite sour & grow in hedgerow

http://i59.tinypic.com/rsbdab.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

Sloes I think.

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_spinosa

[237SJ]

I think the fruits in that picture are damsons

[tamborine]

Sloes grow on thorny bushes. Mine has no thorns but the fruit is thumbnail size, whereas damsons are much bigger.