wild blackberries + blackberry gratin

Home Baked - Autumn

The hedgerow is dripping with blackberries. They are considered a weed, and the Council tries to keep them in check with spraying, but it’s a bit of a loosing battle and there are plenty of locations where you can safely pick the fruit, and I refuse to think poorly of such a generous plant. I can walk five steps from our gate to the opposite fence line …