My family and I used to go fruit picking when I was a little girl during those summers which were endless and the sun was always shining (I have clearly blocked out the months of rain). In the years when fruit picking was the cheaper way to get your fruit – it is now very expensive to pick your own. We would arrive and pick (and eat) strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries. Screaming and running, dropping fruit as we went, from wasps and bees. Moaning at our sore backs and bramble scratched hands. Once we had, had our fill and the moaning became too much to bear for my parents we would head home. As much of the fresh fruit was eaten, the rest went into the huge chest freezer in the garage and was turned into different desserts including gooseberry fool, which I hated because it was too bitter for my sweet tooth*.
I want the sun to come back so that we can go and pick our own.
This weekend we'll be doing wedding stuff. I hope you have fun stuff planned.
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stew the rhubarb in the oven chopped into chunks, with a helpng of sugar, and a tabelspoon of water to get it going, on a lowish heat until its tender, then have it over a good quality vanilla ice cream.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love Rhubarb and Gooseberries, I could recommend honey instead of sugar in Rebecca's recipe above. We used to have them growing in our garden and I loved the puddings we used to get in summer. Happy days!
ReplyDeletei used to always go fruit picking as a little girl too! i still love it :)
ReplyDeleteI love picking fruit. As a kid we used to pick strawberries, blueberries, and apples. I haven't been in years, but you've inspired me.
ReplyDeleteI have never been fruit picking but I would like to go sometime; my mum grows rhubarb and she makes the best crumble with it!
ReplyDeleteHow was doing wedding stuff; I was at my friends hen do, thankfully it all went fab!