5 Things To Do With Blackcurrants In A Day

We have had so much fun today with just 400g of blackcurrants.

We picked these from our bushes but you could buy a couple of punnets and do exactly the same.

No.1: Make fabulous blackcurrant jelly

Easy too:

Put 400g of blackcurrants with top stalks removed, into a pan with a dash of water.

Heat until simmering NOT boiling for the juices to be released.

Press down with a spoon in the pan.

Strain and return liquid to the pan, add 50g of sugar.

Heat until dissolved. Soak 4 gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water for 5 mins.

Add the leaves to the warm pan and dissolve. Add half a cup of water to bulk it up.

Pour into desired moulds.

Delicious and oh so cute!

Great instead of jam on toast.

Important: Now take all the fruit bits discarded from the jelly recipe and add

about 2 cups of water. Bring to the boil and strain.

Retain the mixture for the following ideas.

No.2 : Make blackcurrant playdough

This takes 2 minutes and the recipe is from Minieco.

No.3: Dye a T-Shirt and some cloth ( or whatever cotton thing you want)

Soak what you want before in half a cup of salt and  enough cold water to cover.

Remove from the salt water.

Add half a cup or more of the blackcurrant juice.

Then rinse in cold water and dry on the line.

No.4: What to do with that piece of dyed fabric that's too nice to waste?

Wrap it around a glass and tie with a matching ribbon to make a vase.

He had to hunt in the garden for some flowers that were the same colour as the cloth.

We put this on our Summer Table.

No.5: Use it as watercolour paint

It then dries a purple-blue colour.

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If you have anymore ideas I have a glass of the stuff in the fridge.

Was thinking of natural food dye for biscuits and icing sugar.