Darina Allen: Four easy recipes that make the most of blackberry season

My foolproof lemon curd recipe and you have to try this blackberry pavlova

Celebrate your blackberry bounty with a gorgeous pavlova. 

For foraging nerds like me, there are treasures to be found year-round. We found a few wild mushrooms in the fields — our buckthorn berries are ripening and I’ve picked lots of rowan berries to make jelly to serve with pork, lamb or game when it comes into season.

There are oodles of wild blackberries this year so you can satisfy your inner ‘hunter gatherer’ or just have a trip down memory lane.