{"id":2856,"date":"2012-08-10T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2019-01-26T16:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T16:31:17","slug":"pick-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/pick-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Own…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pick Your Own.\u00a0 A favourite summer holiday activity in our house, once certain minors had got over their disappointment that there are no longer strawberries ripe for the plucking in these here parts.<\/p>\n

Luckily the novelty of blueberries won them over and kept everyone happy for a while, until strawberries were soon forgotten, and the challenge of who could get the most in the punnet was underway. \u00a0 Items of clothing were used as makeshift cups and bowls, and illegal berry eating directly off the plants might have taken place once in a while! \u00a0 I won’t tell if you don’t…<\/p>\n

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We picked blueberries last year in Norway too, but wild ones that were tiny and quite sour.\u00a0\u00a0 And then the tick incident<\/a> happened, so no-one apart from me was interested in venturing into the woods again…<\/p>\n

But these hung like Christmas baubles, giant blue orbs in comparison, just shouting to be picked and taken home.\u00a0 Quite what we are going to do with 2.3kg of them will need some thinking about on behalf of the Mother Ship however!<\/p>\n

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There are now thousands safely ensconced in the freezer, but in the meantime we opted to make a blueberry tarte with a few of them, with\u00a0 components plundered from various recipe books.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sweet short crust pastry came from a Jamie Oliver recipe<\/a>, the creme patissiere was kind of made up by me, so here is a vastly more effective recipe<\/a>, tried and tested previously, and the blueberry section was simple enough, just pile them on, and paint them with melted red-currant jelly for glossiness if you like…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t think I am showing off by making my own custard, it’s a case of needs must, it not being available here and all that, and anyway, it wasn’t a huge success.\u00a0 I blame the milk.\u00a0\u00a0 The tarte itself also self-combusted when it was taken out of the tin, probably in protest at the prospect of being eaten, so there’s no picture of it in its entirety either, but it tasted nice, and the berry pickers wanted more which means it passed the test….<\/p>\n

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