Dried Blackberries

Ingredients

• eight or ten quarts berries
• half pint water
• sufficient water and sugar and a very little flour

Method

1. 1

   Put blackberries over the fire with water and bring to boiling point.

2. 2

   Skim out berries and spread on plates to dry, pouring juice over each plate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 262. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dried Blackberries. — Dry in the sun, or fruit evaporator, or in the oven, like apples, being careful when drying in oven not to scorch them in the least. Dried thus, blackberries make excellent pies and are better if not stewed for this purpose. If simply put in tne crust with sufficient water and sugar ana a very little flour they will be found to cook quickly and retain their fresh flavor in a remarkable degree. Some prefer, however, to dry them with sugar, allowing a Eound sugar to eight or ten quarts berries ; put over the fire with a alf pint water

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