Monday, August 08, 2011

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The wild blackberries are plentiful this year,
and I've been picking for a couple weeks,
freezing and dehydrating them.
The other day I found a recipe I'd saved
from Country Home magazine Jul/Aug 2005
for marionberry biscuits...marionberries
are the most cultivated blackberry in the world,
apparently, and prized for their flavor.
My berries are average wild blackberries,
but still tasty.
If you don't have this issue kicking around,
just try your favorite buttermilk biscuit recipe,
{add a little extra sugar--I used 1/4 cup}
and roll out about a half inch thick.
Cut out bottom circles a little smaller than
the top circles--an equal number of each.
Load the bottom biscuit with plenty of berries,
the more the better,
and top with a larger biscuit circle.
Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 30 minutes.
Glaze with a mix of buttermilk, powdered sugar,
and vanilla,
and top with a fresh blackberry.
These are great eaten warm from the oven!
~
And, if you're picking wild berries,
watch out for poison ivy/oak/sumac--
I didn't realize I was walking right through
every time I picked  :(

~Deb

37 comments:

  1. Carla4:05 PM

    OH wow. YUM... =P....  <--- That's me drooling. =) PS: Hope you heal quickly from your sumac encounter! 

    All the best! ~Carla

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  2. Katy A4:05 PM

    Absolutely beautiful photos Deb! :)

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  3. Thanks Katy!



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  4. Medication is helping the rash :-)



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  5. What could be more summery than blackberry biscuits. These look sooo good!

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  6. Jackie Penn4:35 PM

    Your blackberry biscuits looks so yummy! We have tons of wild blackberry plants on our land, however, the drought this summer did them in. 

    Joyfully,
    Jackie 
    www.quaintscribbles.wordpress.com

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  7. Clreedmarquis4:35 PM

    These look very good! For some reason we never planted blackberries and don't have wild ones on our property. Guess it's on my list for next spring.

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  8. RiverBend Farm4:41 PM

    Oh, those look sooo good.  Since we haven't had any rain here for months, there are no wild berries...so it's off to the market, I go, I go...

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  9. StorybookWoods6:51 PM

    Now, how brillant you are, I never thought to bake them w/ the berries between. I am so trying this. Now I have to wait for my blackberries to ripen. Maybe by December, they will ;-o
    xoxo Clarice

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  10. Oh my. Those cookies looks devine!! We don't have blackberries here, so I have no idea what they yaste like, are they like raspberries?

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  11. We used to pick blackberries when I was a little girl.  I don't have any readily available around here, though, and I miss it.  I'm so sorry you "found" the poison.  Yuck, I'm sure it's uncomfortable.  My Dad used to be so allergic that he would have to get cortisone shots for it to heal up.    The biscuits look so delicious, I'll have to try them once I find some berries at the farmer's market this weekend.

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  12. crickitjo10:00 AM

    Oh my goodness!  These look delicious!  Thanks for sharing this!

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  13. If there were blackberries in my area, I wouldn't have to worry about poison ivy and the likes. Just bears! We have plenty of wild raspberries and the bears love 'em as much as we do! Therefore, I planted tame raspberries. Figured I was safer that way!

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  14. Oh...my...goodness!  Those look positively delicious!

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  15. Those look so yummy!  Our blackberry patches here in Arkansas ususally are infested with the chigger mites which are the most maddening itchy bites you've ever had!  Years ago my family went blackberry picking in the woods.  I had so many chigger bites that I ran a fever and had to have antibiotics and a steroid shot.  Needless to say that ended my interest in blackberry picking!  I do buy them though--love blackberry cobbler too!

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  16. sewnup7:17 AM

    Those Blackberries look so beautiful, much like the ones I used to see growing when visiting my Aunt in the country when I was young.  We weren't allowed to pick any because the council sprayed them with weed killer on a regular basis.  Pity that blackberries are considered a noxious weed over here. 

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  17. You've inspired me!! Thank you for sharing this! We have both Marion berries and wild black berries. Can't wait to make these for my family. Kathi

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  18. I'm thinking it's time for another batch-they went over really well here!


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  19. Despite the thorns and the poison ivy, I'm so happy to have these wild blackberries-I never knew they were considered a weed.



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  20. Seems blackberry picking is not without its perils-I have been on steroids for the poison ivy I got while picking.



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  21. Perfect with a cup of tea/coffee!



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  22. I suppose my encounter with poison ivy is much better than one with a bear :-)



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  23. They are good---perfect with tea or coffee!



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  24. They're so good-quite took my mind off the poison ivy itching for a few moments at least :-)



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  25. Sort of-but, hard for me to describe :-)



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  26. I think you will love them Clarice! Hope your berries are ready soon.


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  27. Hope you like them :-)



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  28. I'm going to try and transplant some of the wild ones into our garden avoid the whole poison ivy issue!



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  29. I had never heard of marionberries until I moved here to Oregon four years ago.  Now, I love them.  Sweeter than a blackberry, they are so good!  Now, I enjoy marionberry pies, turnovers and jam.  There are lots of blackberries here on our tree farm here, but the bears beat us to them!

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  30. I had never heard of marionberries before - maybe they don't grow here in the Northeast?



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  31. Yummy!

    Did you paint the lids to your jars? I love the dark green.

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  32. Yummy!

    Did you paint the lids to your jars? I love the dark green.

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  33. We used to pick blackberries when I was a little girl.  I don't have any readily available around here, though, and I miss it.  I'm so sorry you "found" the poison.  Yuck, I'm sure it's uncomfortable.  My Dad used to be so allergic that he would have to get cortisone shots for it to heal up.    The biscuits look so delicious, I'll have to try them once I find some berries at the farmer's market this weekend.

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  34. Thanks for the visit Jackie!



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  35. This recipe is definitely a keeper!



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  36. Sara Tatham1:54 PM

    Now I have got to go out back and see if the wild blackberries are ripe!  These look so delicious .. thank you for sharing!

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  37. You're welcome Sara! I'm hoping they work as well with the blackberries I've frozen.



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