MYSTICAL MULBERRIES! I picked some ripe ones this afternoon from a mysterious tree I know... jazzy bloodstains ran down my hand, bright scarlet juice... well yummie. (This is not a picture of the actual tree, though it does look just like it...) If only I could get a ladder to it I could make a pie (or even better a crumble. If you don't know crumble (do they have it abroad? I've never heard foreigners talk about it;) it's pie filling in a casserole dish with sand-like floury stuff on top which is really nice. For a recipe clickonthis...... erm~ and that's about all I have to say for today. I'm packed out with plans for the future, too excited to sleep and coasting on the (natural) high that results. Quite extraordinary!
all around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel...
ReplyDeleteNot only do I know how to make crumbles, I actually have two mulberry trees in my yard! Mine are the non-fruiting variety because I don't much care for the purple bird droppings, but my neighbour has two fruiting ones. I can get fruit from him ... as do the birds and squirrels! LOL
ReplyDeleteI make the best fruit crumble this side of the pennines, usually with rhubarb from my garden!
ReplyDeleteYep, even we antipodeans are partial to the slightly better remnants of that great oxymoron "English Cuisine". If you make a crumble with just berries, it's best to pad it out with a little apple to give it 'form'. Glad you're on a natural high! Makes for a change eh?
ReplyDeleteWaiting to hear what you have going . . .
ReplyDeleteYeah, we have crumbles here... I've never had mulberries, but I'm sure they're good; almost all berries are good.
ReplyDeleteWe have crumbles --an apple crisp is the american term for an apple crumble. Betties were big when I was a kid-- An Apple Betty has more fruit and a more pudding-y quality to it.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds, can't believe a whole week has flown by since my last visit. I'm settling down with a mug of hot chocolate while I catch up with your posts. Crumble mmmmm ... forget the fruit just give me the crumble ;) but I am partial to a berry and apple combination*!*
ReplyDeleteMmm. I love crumble. Apple, especially...with cream.
ReplyDeleteHey I never knew crumble was internationally known... rhubarb: used to eat it as a kid but kind of gone off it (maybe the last time it wasn't well cooked...)... English cuisine an oxymoron? Really! Yet we were moaning about GERMAN delicacies like sauerkraut in the papers the other day... yes apple does stop the berry crumble getting too sloppy, aye!... I think vanilla ice cream (cheap or expensive variety) makes the very best accompaniment...
ReplyDeleteOooooh Mulberries are beautiful! There is a winery just outside of Adelaide, called Coreole, with the most spectacular garden and view and right in front of the old cottage building is a huge mulberry tree. Vincent and I picked some last summer. I had never tasted them before and they were one of the most delicious berries I've ever tasted.
ReplyDeleteOh, the mulberry, what a nice delight! Hard to find them 'round here in a store, just have to know someone w/ a tree...it's been years since I've had any.. now I have a cravin!!
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GLED - As bad as modern English "cuisine" may be at times, there are some really nice things. both Vincent and I love apple crumble, I've often made this. I also love the summer berry pudding and the traditional fruit cake and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce. I love pasties too and bread and butter pudding as well.
ReplyDeleteOh! And scones with jam and cream!
ReplyDeleteNo one has heard of crumble here but mulberries are popular. I love crumnle with custard!
ReplyDeleteNicole: I had never eaten a mulberry till then (just heard them recommended: wouldn't you say they're aristocratic blackberries... sort of?...)
ReplyDeleteEnglish cuisine: one of the funniest things I ever saw was some Belgian people trying to stomach an entire chip-shop bought fish and chips... "it's a bit stodgy" they eventually managed, though their faces said it all!
Julie: I've never EVER seen mulberries for sale... they'd be very expensive I'd expect... (though you do seem to get several crops a year off the same tree......)
Welshcakes: yes crumbles are effortlessly superior to pies!!! esp. with vanilla ice cream...
Here in the states we tend to call them "crisps" and ANY fruit is yummo! I like mine with rum sauce! I've never had a mullberry...It is a smell for airspray at Christmas time lol.
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