Blackberries the same day — before they mould

A punnet of blackberries is already on the table — and the hand pushes it “till tomorrow in the fridge”. Easy to leave them: by morning a soft berry sticks, white fluff starts, the whole box smells of cellar. I tip them onto a plate, pick out the soft ones, eat the firm ones today — so they taste of hedge, not of mould.

Blackberries the same day — before they mould. How I wash berries and greens is another note; berries from the freezer into the pot its own; ripe fruit eat today another story. Here it’s today’s blackberries themselves: same day, dry plate, no waiting “for the weekend jam” — not a lecture about “superfood berries”.

If one berry is already soft or white — it goes out at once, not “the rest will be fine”. I don’t wash the whole punnet and leave it wet in the box: damp speeds the mould. I’m not writing a new crumble recipe in this note — it’s about the berries that already sit on our table tonight.

I don’t need a box that quietly furls white overnight. I need blackberries from which the hand takes without checking every one for fluff. At yours do blackberries leave the punnet the same day — or already wait “till tomorrow”?