Somebody else's GOLD
Multebaer (cloudberry) has by far been my favourite berry to pick. I pick it, but don't really eat it. It's an acquired taste lah, but towards the end i kinda got used to the taste. Once again, berryland is by the **** behind the ****. Compared to blueberries, rips and tyttebaer, it's a much bigger berry which means it fills the bucket faster and so it's much more satisfying to pick. My record berry picking session was a straight 4.5 hours out on the slopes of Hoven. I walked and walked and walked and hadn't brought any food or water with me, so i had to resort to picking blueberries to eat along the way. So survivour style. Well i yielded a full bucket of multebaer at the end of that very long session. Cato was saying how impressed he was with my berry picking skills.
Berry picking like most other things has it's "hard-to-get-over moment". The most difficult is the starting, coz it seems like you'd pick and pick and pick, and you haven't even covered the bottom of the bucket. Once you get past filling the base of the bucket it moves pretty fast. Well psychologically. Then there's the middle part where for a period of time, the berry level doesn't seem to be moving. And the worst for me is when it gets to the top. I've analysed the situation and concluded that it's impossible to completely fill a bucket to the very brim simply coz the weight of the berries on top will always press down on the berries below, so no matter how much you pick, not only will you never fill the bucket, but you'd end up getting mushy berries at the bottom.
For me, the beginning of the berry picking season's the best coz the berries are still firm and easy dislodges itself from the stem and doesn't make your hands messy and mushy. Which makes it such a joy picking those plump, red babies.
Everyone loves multebaer, especially when it's a special treat. When we came down from Hoven with our bucket of multebaer which we'd been picking, bcc left a berry on the sweater belonging to a guy who was on his way up (it was kinda hot on that day and the guy folded his sweater neatly, placed it on a rock and proceeded up). Coz it was early in the season, the berry was still unripe though. Well better than nothing.
As you'd known from my previous entries, berry sorting is boooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg.
This was taken earlier in the season. Only the berries in the bowl are the ripe ones. The rest on the tray were left out to ripen and the ripe ones cleared each day.
Multebaer season lasts probably about a month. Towards the end, the berries in the wilderness turn a tomato orange and they are much softer and of course had to be plucked with tender loving care so it wouldn't disintegrate in my hands.
That is multebaer nightmare... bcc and i were out on our last trip and walked so much picking berries that we weren't so excited when we came to another berry-land patch.
The berries we'd picked from the last trip. You can compare it to the previous picture of sorted berries. The unripe berries aren't that many anymore.
The berries can be eaten in a variety of ways. Of course you can just eat em straight.
Or mash em with sugar to make jam.
Or just pour some cream on and eat as an after-dinner dessert.
Or whip it with some egg white till it's thick and creamy and accompany it with a biscuit like pastry. A Christmas must.
After all that picking and walking in the wilderness. This is all the multebaer that had been picked this season. That's 19 bags of about 500g each in total. Excluding quite a portion which was given away to Cato as jam when he came to visit.
Berry picking like most other things has it's "hard-to-get-over moment". The most difficult is the starting, coz it seems like you'd pick and pick and pick, and you haven't even covered the bottom of the bucket. Once you get past filling the base of the bucket it moves pretty fast. Well psychologically. Then there's the middle part where for a period of time, the berry level doesn't seem to be moving. And the worst for me is when it gets to the top. I've analysed the situation and concluded that it's impossible to completely fill a bucket to the very brim simply coz the weight of the berries on top will always press down on the berries below, so no matter how much you pick, not only will you never fill the bucket, but you'd end up getting mushy berries at the bottom.
For me, the beginning of the berry picking season's the best coz the berries are still firm and easy dislodges itself from the stem and doesn't make your hands messy and mushy. Which makes it such a joy picking those plump, red babies.
Everyone loves multebaer, especially when it's a special treat. When we came down from Hoven with our bucket of multebaer which we'd been picking, bcc left a berry on the sweater belonging to a guy who was on his way up (it was kinda hot on that day and the guy folded his sweater neatly, placed it on a rock and proceeded up). Coz it was early in the season, the berry was still unripe though. Well better than nothing.
As you'd known from my previous entries, berry sorting is boooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg.
This was taken earlier in the season. Only the berries in the bowl are the ripe ones. The rest on the tray were left out to ripen and the ripe ones cleared each day.Multebaer season lasts probably about a month. Towards the end, the berries in the wilderness turn a tomato orange and they are much softer and of course had to be plucked with tender loving care so it wouldn't disintegrate in my hands.
That is multebaer nightmare... bcc and i were out on our last trip and walked so much picking berries that we weren't so excited when we came to another berry-land patch.
The berries we'd picked from the last trip. You can compare it to the previous picture of sorted berries. The unripe berries aren't that many anymore.The berries can be eaten in a variety of ways. Of course you can just eat em straight.
Or mash em with sugar to make jam.
Or just pour some cream on and eat as an after-dinner dessert.
Or whip it with some egg white till it's thick and creamy and accompany it with a biscuit like pastry. A Christmas must.
After all that picking and walking in the wilderness. This is all the multebaer that had been picked this season. That's 19 bags of about 500g each in total. Excluding quite a portion which was given away to Cato as jam when he came to visit.
posted by Farmer Sam at 1:31 AM
2 Comments:
you know multe cream with that special biscuit is a Christmas must have, and when i was first introduced to this (and for a few Christmases after), i didn't like multe at all, i think it was because of the horrible no. of seeds in each berry (not easy to swallow! and you know how i love chewing my food!) . . Unni used to prepare a bowl of strawberries on the side for me .
but multe is an acquired taste, now i do eat it. It was only from last summer that i really got into the berry picking groove, and also infected mooi with it this year! :).. there's something about gathering your own berries !
After trying the "inferior" (since it is made from Swedish berries) IKEA cloudberry jam I have to say that the jams favoured by mature palates seem to have lots and lots of seeds. CRUNCHY!!!!!
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