Harvest II!! Blackcurrants - including some recipe thoughts and links!

The blackcurrants have been really good this year - must be the weather as we've done nothing different. My tweet about this crop prompted a little twitter exchange about what to do with bumper crops of blackcurrants. Suggestions have come to make blackcurrant vodka, to make bar-le-duc and to force the surplus onto friends and neighbours (or at least the ones without their own bumper crops to deal with)! Thanks to @celiabb @IdleSi and @willonline.

Here's a few more thoughts - and there's plenty more at the Blackcurrant Foundation's website:

Blackcurrant schnapps - this is a Danish sugar-free recipe so will be sharper than the usual vodka, berries and sugar approach.
Blackcurrant Ice Lollies - courtesy of Waitrose a nice idea (and the leftover mush will make a smoothie too!)

Russian Blackcurrant recipes seem a bit different - blackcurrant soup looks interesting and there's also instructions for making tea with the leaves

Blackcurrant teabread - a baker's solution that might use up the smaller older berries that wouldn't look so good in a cheesecake or a flan

And when you get bored with blackcurrant desserts and teas you can put them in the mani course with pork or with duck. Plus this rather weird combination with emu (specially for our antipodean readers!).

And now it's all over - a little picture of the 'de-berried' bushes as they await the end of Summer pruning (still a load a raspberries to go at first)!