Blackberry Syrup - Homemade & Home Grown

Blackberry Syrup - Homemade & Home Grown

Five years ago I received some blackberry bushes as a Christmas gift (click HERE to read a post about that gift).  Normally it takes 2 to 3 years before blackberry plants are established enough for harvesting any berries but it actually took 5 years for my plants to mature.  Also, I was supposed to be picking 10 gallons of berries per plant and I only picked about 2 cups of berries total from both plants.  Needless to say that I am not impressed by these "miracle" berry plants but I am loving the flavor of these berries.
My recipe is a small quantity but it was enough to make syrup for waffles and for drizzling on ice cream (I also had a little left over for making a lemon blackberry cheesecake pie).

 
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There are 2 steps to this syrup - first you must make the juice.

Blackberry juice

1 1/2 cups fresh blackberries (rinsed and drained)

1 1/2 cups water cups water (preferably filtered water)

Prepare the blackberries as described above.  Place the blackberries and water in a medium pot and bring to boil.  Simmer on very low heat for about 30 minutes to an hour  Now you will need to strain the juice to separate the blackberry seeds/pulp from the liquid (see pictures above).  Allow the juice to drain out of the colander for an hour (you should have 1 cup of juice after straining out the seeds).

Allow juice to cool and continue on to make syrup or place in the fridge for other uses.

 

Blackberry Syrup

1/2  blackberry juice from the previous step (cooled)

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

In a medium sauce pan combine the sugar and cornstarch - stir until mixed.  Add the blackberry juice and whisk together gently until there are no sugar/cornstarch clumps remaining (see pictures above).  Place on medium heat and cook until it boils slowly and thickens (you must stir the entire time).  Remove from the heat and you have blackberry syrup! (see picture below).

Serve while hot on waffles.

Or allow to cool and serve on ice cream. 
ENJOY!

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