This year seems to be the best year in a long time for winberries, where I normally ride is teeming with them (Long Mynd). The only thing equally tasty to a mid-ride wild snack is a blackberry, imo. Although they are much more time consuming to pick.

Has anyone else been enjoying them?

Wild rasberries and Blaeberries are full on go up in Scotland. Om Nom. 8)

Edit: I think Winberries are Blaeberries….

Ah! Blaeberries.

Yup nibbled a few the other week when I was out with the dog. Not as nice as Raspberries, Cherries or strawberries but easier to find.

Made Tarte Myrtille the other weekend after stripping half of Hepburn. Nom!

Not as nice as Raspberries

Get out.

Good ones are like Vimto in a bubble, best served on a fresh pancake outdoors on an open fire…

In the Valleys we call them Wimberries, Gods bounty and a pain to pick, Wimberry tart is unbeatable.

Used to be able to buy bags of them in Abergavenny market, arrrggghhh starts cravings

Wimberries here too.

Ah, bilberries. Had some on Dartmoor on Saturday.

a pain to pick

Problem Solved.

Winberries? Are you thinking about winnets and dangeleberries? If so, plenty.

I call them bilberries too. (Grew up on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border)

Interesting that many people think blueberries and bilberries are the same thing. Blueberries are kind of green in the middle if you split them whereas bilberries are purple all the way through.

Winberries here. The woods behind us are full of them. The girls have been picking them. They also got a job lot of wild blackcurrants, which my mum is making jam with

Matt where can you get such alchemy?

Found them 😆 wow you could pick a pies worth in a matter of minutes thank you Matt and thank you God.

Are you thinking about winnets and dangeleberries? If so, plenty.

The Cleggnuts will be out soon, if the squirrels don’t get them!

Yup. Whinberries here … done the picking and jam making a good couple weeks ago. I think their season has finished here in South Wales for the year.

@pigface

https://www.google.com/search?q=berry+picker&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

picked 5kg this year – took one hour using the thingamagig ^^^ & three hours sifting afterwards – still well worth it.

enoungh to make 25 jars of jam – heaven.

In my continuous search for the best piucking spot – I think I found it.

Was munching on Wimberries on Saturdays ride. Lovely!

@MadBillMcMad

Jam recipe please! Ours was too runny last year…

@matt,

2.25 lb billberries
rind & juice of one lemon
1 bottle of certo

method: billberries,sugar & lemon rind & juice in a jam pan
heat gently till sugar dissolved
add a flake of butter
bring to full rolling boil & boil for 3 minutes

remove from heat
add certo
test if set – might need a bit more boiling

slap in jars

enjoy

I could give you the recipe for bilberry slump too – my total favourite

The neighbours to one side of me have a jungle garden full of blackberry bushes been raiding it the past week, nearly got a full container in the freezer already.

I reckon there’s about another 2-3 weeks harvesting left.

Anyone else been lucky enough to stumble across some cloudberries this year?

Ah, Winberries. Food of the gods. We used to pick loads at a secret location on the Sugar Loaf. My grans’ Winberry tart was honestly the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in my life. Found a vast number of them recently high in the Alps while out there riding. Had a very rapid feast while waiting for the group to clear some nasty switchbacks 🙂

cloudberries – aren’t they the disgusting things the norwegians & Finns rave about.

LET’S GET READY TO CRUUUUMMMMBLE. Blackberry crumble, we had our first at the weekend.