Blackberries: 7 recipes that feature the state fruit of Alabama

By: Alabama Living

When Beverly Davis makes her Blackberry Pepper Jelly, she recommends serving it with a block of cream cheese. “You definitely need the cream cheese,” she says, because the hot, spicy nature of the jalapeño needs something to calm it down. She also likes to serve it with Sociables crackers. “Those are real good.”

When we made the jelly for our taste-testing here at the office, our cook Brooke Echols made two versions, one with jalapeños with seeds intact, and another version with the seeds scooped out (less spicy). Davis says she perfected her recipe about two years ago and says you can use any kind of fruit to make it. “You can also cook with it, put it over meats and even vegetables,” says the retired postmaster.

At a recent get-together of classmates from Autauga County High School Class of 1972, she says, “One of the guys ate a half a block of the cream cheese” topped with her prize-winning jelly. “Guys really like it.”

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