Wild blackberries are ripe for the picking all over the place right now. Locally they’re known as brambles. Ben went for a walk yesterday along the river and came home with several cups of them.
I turned them into blackberry crumble.
This crumble was particularly delicious because I did something different. Crumble is just fruit with a topping of oats, flour, sugar, spice, and butter or oil. Instead of using butter or oil I used two tablespoons of almond butter. This made it healthier because oils and butters are processed and best avoided. The almond butter also added a nice nutty flavour. I will be doing this for all my crumbles going forward. Maybe I’ll replace the sugar with date syrup next and it’ll be even healthier.
And here’s Victoria surveying her estate.
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Blackberry turned into crumble is a good thing to enjoy. Thank you 😊
It was the nicest crumble we’ve had all summer. Delicious!
Wow! When are you going to make a crumble next? 😊
Is that your house behind Victoria, or the neighbour’s?
That’s the neighbour’s house.
I bet that was gorgeous
It was great. We’re having one tonight 😀
Looks yummy, but I think you should call it Brambles Crumble 🙂
OK bramble crumble it is 😀
That’s a really nice cluster of blackberries. In Cornwall I went for long walks back from surfing and didn’t bother taking lunch because I knew I could find blackberries to keep me going. But sometimes they are hard or small, or overripe, those ones are perfect.