Raspberry Picking- A Family Affair

Raspberries are very good at concealing themselves behind leaves, which is why raspberry picking is best done en famille so that there are pickers of differing heights who can spot the berries from every angle. This year the crop would have been excellent if the weather hadn’t become so wet just as they started to ripen, sand we have lost at least a third of the crop because of mould. We have used most of the raspberries in summer puddings this year, and there isn’t much left over for making jam, but this doesn’t really matter as we made 265 jars last year and there’s still plenty left.