DRIPPING SPRINGS BABBLE: THAT'S HOW THE AGARITA CRUMBLES (OUR WILD FOOD FOLLOW-UP)

THAT'S HOW THE AGARITA CRUMBLES (OUR WILD FOOD FOLLOW-UP)

Earlier this month we posted about agarita and our ripening agarita berries. We were determined to make an edible agarita treat this year, and while visions of agarita jams and jellies danced in our head these wild berries eventually made their way into a crumble.

We learned some valuable lessons in our agarita harvesting adventure including no matter how thick the glove, you're in a world of itchy scratchy hurt if you don't also wear long sleeves. Further, while we were fortunate enough to not encounter any, we have since been advised to watch for snakes when out picking. Birds like agarita berries. Snakes like birds. You get the wild kingdom picture. We will be better prepared for our next berry harvest, which will happen, because our crumble turned out absolutely scrumptious. We're in the "a smidge of this and a pinch of that" category of cooks so we have no precise recipe to share, however we based it off of this strawberry crumble recipe, but we used Fowler's honey in place of sugar (not in direction proportion as agarita berries are not sweet like strawberries). We also used a smidge more cornstarch and put the pinch of salt in the crumble, not mixed with the fruit.