#Sweet pie blackberry full#
#Sweet pie blackberry plus#

You could use Bramley apples instead.īlackberries - these days you can buy blackberries year-round in supermarkets which have been properly cleaned. If you don't want to make the pastry you could just buy a roll of shortcrust pastry instead.Īpples - I like to use Granny Smith apples because they stay firm and don't turn to mush when cooked. These are the ingredients you will need for making blackberry and apple pie (including the pastry). **Get the complete recipe for this blackberry and apple pie on the printable recipe card at the end of this post**

The baking tray goes into the oven while the oven is pre-heating and the pie dish gets placed on the hot tray to help cook the base of the pie. I like to use a pie dish with a loose bottom so that I can get the pie out easily. You will also need a 9' or 10' pie dish and a metal sheet pan or baking tray. If you don't have a microwave, you can just boil the apples for a few minutes on the stove. You will need a mixing bowl for making the pastry, and a microwave-safe bowl for pre-cooking the apples. I've shared another of my Granny's recipes for old-fashioned bacon and egg pie which is hugely popular with my readers. Although I have to admit that homemade pastry does have the edge.īut I have to say that one mouthful of this apple and blackberry pie still transports me straight back to those days and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. And if you are really pressed for time you can just buy a roll of shortcrust pastry in the supermarket. For a start, we have microwaves which make short work of pre-cooking the apples. These days, there's a lot less work involved.

I'd get home to be greeted by the aroma of apples simmering in a pan of syrupy cinnamon and Granny would take the blackberries, rinse them and add them to the apples before encasing the whole lot in her special sweet pastry and popping it in the oven to bake until it was golden.

#Sweet pie blackberry full#

I'm sure I ate more blackberries than I actually put in the jar, but I always managed to get a jar full to take back home. I’m picky I don’t want to grow regular blackberries, I want the extreme gourmet types only.I remember being handed a jam jar with a handle fashioned from a piece of string and being sent off to forage for blackberries from the hedgerows in the nearby lanes, with instructions not to return until the jam jar was full. Not very hardy I protect it in the winter from cold. I keep it as it’s the king of blackberry flavor. Excellent flavor though! Marion is the only one that ripens during SWD season. I may cull siskiyou as it’s not very hardy. Sunrise are all early types or early enough to avoid SWD same with Tayberry, wyeberry, and newberry. I grow Newberry, tayberry, wyeberry, siskiyou, and marion. The ARS/Oregon cultivars use a different thornless gene that does not add that grassy aftertaste.

#Sweet pie blackberry plus#

I culled out Triple Crown, Navajo, and Chester becasue they ripened at the height of SWD plus to me the Arkansas cultivars with the thornless gene have a strange aftertaste if not fully ripe. I added Sunrise for the novelty of the double flower. Commercial syrups are all trash as far as I’m concerned. Taste tests showed sweetened Giant beat Marion in flavor. I just added Columbia Giant for processing, it’s a touch sour, but the biggest thornless berry to date, Beats Natchez. Very productive if you can keep the canes alive. I can though see how some would not want to deal with them. Here it helps to protect blackberries and it’s easier for me to protect trailing types. Newberry is amazing and nobody sells it anymore.It has a distinct raspberry aftertaste, very complex and rich flavor. And the double flower of Columbia Sunrise looks cool. Columbia Star was just OK, Columbia Giant looks excellent for processing. Still to me their best cultivar is Newberry. Using a different thornless gene have come up with a few commercial releases themselves. The ARS/Oregon program is nothing to write off.

Although the new Ponca may be a game changer. Yes, nobody still has really beat Triple Crown. This article on UArk berries suggests flavor might be in-line with their other recent releases: