{"id":684,"date":"2010-08-23T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2010-08-23T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:12:57","slug":"a-glut-of-blackberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"A glut of blackberries…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What with all the rain we’ve been having, my vegetable garden has more or less been devastated by slugs. The one thing that has survived – and in colossal quantities – are the blackberries.<\/p>\n

I’m always amazed by the zillions of kilos my one blackberry bush produces – and this year is no exception. In fact the rain seems to have made the berries even bigger and juicier than normal.<\/p>\n

Yesterday my freezer finally reached its limit. Full, full, full! \u00a0Not a millimetre to squeeze anything else in at all. \u00a0As I know I still have some frozen blackberries in there left over from last year, I decided that I had to take drastic action as I will never, ever make enough blackberry crumble to use all the berries up this winter.<\/p>\n

So first I made this….yummy blackberry jam….. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And then I made this….<\/p>\n

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This is a Swiss fruit tart – otherwise known as a W\u00e4he (pronounced ‘vaya’). It’s a super-easy foolproof dessert guaranteed to win you the heart of any Swiss man!<\/p>\n

I use a circle of ready-made pastry (not puff-pastry) laid into a greased round tin.<\/p>\n

Then I sprinkle a tablespoon of ground nuts over the pastry – hazelnuts are traditional but I use whatever I have to hand – almonds work fine too.<\/p>\n

Then I put in enough fruit to cover the base of the tin (about 750g or a pound and a half), (you can use any sort of fruit for this) and bake at about 250 degrees for about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

At this point I pour in a ‘guss’ – a mixture comprising one egg, one tablespoon of sugar and 1 dl milk, all beaten up together.<\/p>\n

It is then popped in the oven for another 15 minutes or so…and bob’s your uncle…. a fruit W\u00e4he – to eat warm or cold, with cream or ice cream, or simply on its own!<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

(oops, I guess I’ve been 1950’s housewifing again!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What with all the rain we’ve been having, my vegetable garden has more or less been devastated by slugs. The one thing that has survived – and in colossal quantities – are the blackberries. I’m always amazed by the zillions of kilos my one blackberry bush produces – and this year is no exception. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-b2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}