The first ripe blackberries, are also the sweetest: perfect for summer salad!
Origin
Blackberry, “rubus fruticosus”, has its origins in Europe and Asia and can be found from July till September. Greeks and Romans used this fruit as a medicine, especially to lower fewer and to cure gout. Today, blackberries grow in Eurasia and America and there are mostly wild cultivations, because they adapt well to any kind of soil. Because of their high perishability, it’s not so common to find them in a supermarket, but since they grow spontaneously, you can easily find them in the woods and countryside!
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Blackberries can be divided into blackberry bush and mulberry. The latter are characterized by a reddish color, while the first ones are more common, black and with a classic sweet taste that makes them irresistible and perfect for jams and juices not to mention desserts like pies, crumbles, smoothies and ice creams. Also, there are many liquors and wines you can prepare with this fruit. Because of their refreshing and thirst-quenching properties, they are ideal to prepare summer dishes like salads or to be combined with meat. Lunch break? Try a salad with watermelon, mint, arugula and blackberries!
Did you know
Thanks to their extremely sweet taste, blackberries were once considered a dessert and, since the harvesting time is very short, it was a very rare and wanted fruit. Because of this, there is a proverb saying “Being so far from something, more than January from blackberries”. It means that you want something that you are hardly going to get!
