Knock, knock, are there other witches here or am I alone? If you are not yet a witch yourself, perhaps you can become one today and cast a spell with me into this great cauldron on the fire. 🔥
I mean - in the freezer. ❄️
Our sweet activity today takes place in the kitchen and ends in a very cold place even though it started in the forest yesterday.
This is quite normal, as witches gather ingredients for their culinary witchcraft in the woods. It's something like... wild foraging. Yes, yes, for a long time, I wanted to participate in this community and let you in on the secret that from time to time I practice this activity, although the selection of fruits that I can collect myself in the wild is not too great. I like loquats, tangerines, figs... but there is just enough of them to eat on the way while we walk.
Late summer brings blackberries and the possibility of gathering more of them, but I don't have any around here. Yes in the mountains, so yesterday when we went there to take water from the spring I checked the condition of the wild blackberries. I think I had luck! :))
But it's not easy to pick them. You have to sacrifice your legs and let them get covered with little scratches from the thorns if you want to pick a lot of these little blackberries. You have to really like them to do it. Look at this mess of thorns:
My little advice before you go picking blackberries: wear long sleeves and trousers if you want to avoid the scratches on your arms and legs! Also, please note that it is strongly advised not to pick and consume plants and fruits you don't know! There are berries in the woods that can look like edible ones but you should not pick and eat them if you are not 100% sure that they will not make you harm.
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One additional tip: you should have a small box or other container with you when you go out to forage in the wild. Where you would store all the berries you pick? In your hand?
That works just when you are there but taking them home...?
This witch wasn't prepared properly, but the situations when you lack something make you think and improve and improvise... Yes, I had a spare empty bottle of water in the car! 😃 With a bit of magic we can convert it into our container for blackberries.
Slowly, it started to receive the fruits. It was just a thin layer of blackberries on the bottom of the bottle after the first shrub. The process went slowly as I had to be careful because of thorns and also pick the berries with a delicacy.
Ok, a bit of witchcraft and we have the bottle filled with blackberries! 😂
As I promised the kitchen part, we will move there now. The blackberries arrived home and were placed in the fridge because it was too late to try this recipe my mother gave me last night.
So, the name is Witch Cream - hence my joke that I am a witch in the kitchen today! 😂
It is easy. We have to beat two egg whites (just the whites) with a spoonful of sugar, later add some lemon drops and the fruit you have (it can be strawberries or any other berry kind) and continue beating. Put in the freezer to become a kind of frozen, light, fluffy cream.
I noticed that the lemon wonderfully changed the colour of this cream. It was darker when I started to add the blackberries. More lemon and the cream became tastier and lighter in colour.
Oh, my dear fellow witches, this was a spell which made us all become witches now. {sorry} 😂
Now, with our special powers, we have to hold out for a while and wait for the treat to freeze for at least half an hour. ⏱
