Blackberries were available in the market the other day. Just now I pulled the fresh baked cobbler from the oven. Now if I can just put my hands on that container of vanilla ice cream that should be in the deep freeze.

Seeing this picture makes me recall many memories of my youth. As a kid growing up in SC I and my siblings would pick blackberries from alongside ditch banks during late summer. Mom always promised a cobbler if we managed to pick a sufficient quantity. Oftentimes that dedication to picking depended on whether or not we encountered snakes

 

It would depend on what kind of snakes for me to even be picking. Lots of copperhead around here.

 

Yum. Looks great to me. I can almost smell it from here. I wish. Good job.

 

Pretty much the same for me as a kid, but the snakes weren’t the biggest issue - it was us eating the blackberries as fast as we picked them. Many times there weren’t enough left in the pails when we got home for Mom to make a cobbler.

 

That looks delicious !!
Growing up in Illinois our suburban home was built on one time farm land as so many were.
we reaped the benefits of that. The property (field) behind us remained undeveloped for several years and as a result we were blessed with many
good things, I don't know if they were a result of wind blown seeds or a one time farmers garden but behind our house grew patches of strawberries, dill weed which my mom used for pickles, raspberries and RHUBARB just all there for the pickin, good thing mom liked to cook
I'm sure that free rhubarb was responsible for my addiction to rhubarb pie, Enjoy your cobbler !!

 

Oh my...oh my, oh my....that cobbler looks delicious. Enjoy.

 

Blackberries this late? All ours were done by end of July. There's vines on the fence line which I saw when I was bush hogging, just starting to turn ripe.

The following week my right hip acted up to where I could barely walk and I couldn't go get them. The damn deer had a feast though. Branch head bastids.😡

My parents had a thornless blackberry vine here for years. The fruit was good but not like wild. The folks had a bad habit of planting things in odd places and the blackberries were in the middle of the pasture behind the house.

After my dad died, Mama got one of the neighbors to mow that field one spring and he being unfamiliar with the field mowed the vines down. They never recovered. I sometimes think of trying to start a couple of canes again.

 

Yum,

My grandfather's cook would make a BIG one in a turkey roasting pan

 

Just curious - was that your Grandmother, or is there a story to be told here?

 

James is from southren arisTOCracy, sirrah. His sainted granddad's estate had its own help.

 

Not unusual for a Southern family to hire a cook or housekeeper if they had the means.

My Laws great-greats had a cook/housekeeper from 1875 to around 1905. There were ELEVEN rambunctious little Laws. Great-great Grandma Laura had to have some help managing that household!

Cook Nancy and her family are buried in the Laws family cemetery and her descendants have burial rights there as long as there's room in the enclosure. 100-plus years later they may not even know they have that privilege.

 

For sure!

Remember Miss Daisy employed Idella as cook. When Miss Daisy drove her 1948 Packard over the wall and into the neighbor's yard her son laid down the law and that's when Hoke came on board to drive Miss Daisy back and forth to the Piggly Wiggly. ...

 

Don't remember Idella making blackberry cobbler for the Werthans though.

Esther Rolle, although often typecast, was another of those actors who could own any role she chose to play.

 

Well, that’s why I asked. My Grandpa had a cook, and that was Grandma.

My family didn’t have “help” as they were the help, as in my grandparents and their families were farm hands in South Louisiana who lived on the wealthier family landowners farm and worked the fields in lieu of room and board.

 

If you ever want to see a interesting movie that revolves around southern help and extended family check out a movie called
Cookies Fortune, it stars Glen Close, Charles Dutton, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty and even Lyle Lovett, Juiie Ann Moore
Its kind of a wacky, wierd almost dark comedy with a twist. It kinda flew under the radar for most. have you seen it ?

 

No, but if it has Patricia Neal I'll try to find it!

Julianne Moore, meh. Gorgeous ginger chick but fell slap off the left side of the bed. She was born in NC so she ought to know something about blackberries and cobbler though.