We recently had some good rain and then lots of warm weather and the raspberries went to town. I prefer to eat them right off the plant or pick some to have on yogurt or ice cream. I don't like to pick a bunch and put them in the fridge. They just aren't good after that.
But we had a lot of raspberries! A pound and a half to be exact:
I picked everything that seemed ripe and it was an impressive haul (for just growing them in our yard anyway - we're not a u-pick!). These are different colors because we have black, red, and royal raspberries. We also have a variety called Korean Gold but it's just sending up shoots this year, not fruiting.
I dumped them all in that baking dish, sprinkled on a tiny amount of sugar (for the few that were perhaps not quite ripe enough yet), and plopped on some biscuit dough. And out came this lovely:
After cooling a bit, we walked it a couple blocks away and surprised some friends with a dinner-ruining raspberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream snack. They didn't complain one bit. =)
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Our is doing great too! I always forget how much is usual for our harvest, so I can't say for certain that we are producing more but it seems like it to me. I'm harvesting about 4-5 oz each day. You could freeze your raspberries or make a raspberry syrup to have with chocolate chip pancakes. That's what we do!
I think we froze raspberries a year or two ago and may still have them. Hmm. Syrup is a good idea. We've made jam too, but one batch was way too seedy. Maybe jelly... =)
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