Raspberry Season

My favorite part of the canning season is when the raspberries are on. There are so many yummy things to make and it is a great pleasure to sit down to a large bowl of berries sprinkled with a little sugar and eat the whole thing.

I have often wondered how much that bowl would have cost. Usually I think about $5. Free to me and nothing is better than fresh picked berries.

I don't actually enjoy the picking part and yesterday found myself humming a real old oldie "they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go, they ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxRK3DNoa_Q This is the origanal Johnny Horton vidio.

The stickers are really unpleasant, and I continue to pick in capris and a short sleeved T-shirt. Jessica keeps telling me to wear long, but it was 99 yesterday and way too hot for long. I think I sort of like the war wounds anyhow.

After 2 long hot hours, I was done. (My patch is 15x40 feet) My reward was a 5 qt. bucket full and mounding. Now what to do?

Razzleberry Pie is always good. I made this pie a few weeks ago. That was when I had just a few raspberries and lots of blackberries.

Last night I did Raspberrie Peach Jam. This is our favorite. It's great that my peaches are ripe now as well. I picked all of one tree this morning. I got 22 pints of jam last night. That was off the first picking. I get to pick twice a week, so we'll have lots of jam and lots of frozen berries in addition to all the ones we get to eat.

Scott's favorite treat lately has been a bowl of peaches sprinkled with berries, then dusted with sugar. Yummy!

Tomorrow, we are getting to have fresh peach, raspberrie pie for our Sunday dessert. I hate cooked fruit pies except for apple, so we love to have fresh pies in a grahm cracker crust. We will be having a Jim Kelly dinner. Corn on the cob, tomatoes, turkey breast, potatoes and gravy, stuffing cucumbers etc.

I love raspberrie season!