http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/blackberry+pie IrishCentral blackberry pie en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irish-food-guide/picking-blackberries--my-blackberry-madeira-pie-recipe-173147071.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irish-food-guide/picking-blackberries--my-blackberry-madeira-pie-recipe-173147071.html Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:32:56 PDT
Delicious blackberries ripening in the countrysideThere are quite a few runs of pretty good wild blackberry hedges around where I live in Donegal and as the roads are quiet enough too, they don't get infused with exhaust fumes so much But this year, while nosing around a few old back roads I hit the jackpot and found a good quarter-mile of the biggest,  juiciest, most bountiful blackberry bushes I've ever seen! I parked up the car and pulled out the wee bowl my daughter, Lily, had taken with us just in case we found some of these luscious fruits of the forest It turned out that I needed to use the basin I had in the boot of the car since the last cooking demo I had done! There were blackberries as far as my eyes could see - I was like a wee boy again - smiling to myself as we picked the berries, eating almost as many as we picked! They were so perfectly ripe they almost fell off their husks into our hands I was reminded of when my brother and I used to stay with our aunt, Nora Boyle, a few miles out of Donegal town, for two weeks during the summer months, so that Mum could have another room for the Bed & Breakfast guests READ MORE ]]>