I don’t pick them myself anymore but when I was a kid I picked enough every day for my breakfast the next day and enough for a cobbler on weekends. Poison ivy and snakes keep me out of the berry patch now even though we have acres of them. I havn’t even bought any in years.
Aww, hate to hear that! I haven’t picked any in a very long time, myself. But I think you’re right that dewberries are only in the wild. They are sweet and great to eat out of hand.
I hadn’t thought about commercial blackberries not being as “user-friendly,” but you’re right, now that I think about it. That’s probably why they’re good for tea.
Luzianne or somebody makes a peach sweet tea that comes in gallons at the grocery, but I don’t like it. Love peaches, love peach cobbler more than life itself (with BlueBell HMV, of course) - but do NOT like it for flavoring tea.
I have a favorite cake that is blackberry, but no berries are used in it, lol. It’s made with blackberry jello (hard to find) and blackberry wine in it, with a blackberry wine or brandy glaze - it’s Bundt cake. Yummy and moist.
Also had a FReeper share a tasty recipe with me for sweet and sour German red cabbage that has seedless blackberry preserves/jelly stirred into the liquid at the end to thicken the sauce. Very good!