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Last week, I mentioned that I was in full on canning mode and kicked the season off with 4 gallons of blackberries.

It wasn't only blackberries that were being dealt with, I also found three bags of various pits and peels that needed attention so I made 12 1/2 pints of apple pie jelly (recipe next week), 10 1/2 pints of peach and jalapeno jelly, and 11 1/2 pints of pear jelly.

As promised, here is the recipe for blackberry syrup.

This syrup can be used on pancakes, in drinks (blackberry lemonade anyone?), tossed with a fruit salad, poured over ice cream; it's pretty versatile really.

Blackberry Syrup 

12c. Blackberries, rinsed
2c. Water
4c. Sugar

Put berries and water in a big stainless steel pot and cook down until berries are squishy.
Turn off the heat.
With your handy dandy whizzy (immersion blender for those of you not up to speed on my particular kitchen slang) whiz up the berries until it becomes an even consistency (no big chunks of berries.)
Next, strain the pulp from the juice.  I used a colander to catch the bigger chunks and then cheesecloth in a colander to catch (most of) the seeds.
Rinse out your stainless pot to get any residual seeds sticking on the bottom and sides.
Pour the juice back into your now clean pot, bring up to a boil and add sugar.  At this point taste it to see if it's sweet enough for you.  If not, add another cup of sugar.
Stir until the sugar is melted.  Bring up to a boil for 1 minute.  Cut off the heat.
Ladle syrup into hot jars.
Process in a water bath for 10 minutes.

Miz Helen’s Country Cottage


Thanks Miz Helen for the feature!
This is part of Miz Helen's Full Plate Thursday.

Comments

  1. Blackberry lemonade...right on! I'm going to think about that all night.

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    1. It would be a great accompaniment to your beautiful fig salad that still makes me swoon.

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