A taste of Autumn

We recently needed to get a new fridge-freezer so took the opportunity to stock take the freezer drawers and discovered we had blackberries and blueberries from 2025 which needed to be eaten.  I decided to make a sauce with them.  I tipped a load of each into a saucepan, added 2 dessertspoons of icing sugar and gently simmered them.  When they were soft (about ten minutes-ish), I mashed them with the potato masher and then passed them through a metal sieve to get rid of the pips. 

I find that blueberries don't have that much taste on their own, but combined with the blackberries, it is a marriage made in heaven!  We have it over vanilla ice-cream and also swirled into natural yogurt, with or without a chopped banana.  It is absolutely delicious and a really good use for those berries. A real taste of late Summer/early Autumn.