Recipe#4311

Title: Blackberry Sweets

From: "Carlo Santoni" santoni@dada.it 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Italian Blackberry Sweets 
 Date: 6 Jul 1998 05:12:36 -0600 
 Message-ID: <899108455.296099@tzara.dada.it> 

This recipe has been found in Sant'Agata and it reminds the past
 times where only rich people could afford to buy sweets and cakes
 in general, while young poor people had to wait until Christmas or
 when they were ill. On the other hand the thrifty use of sugar
 permitted to have healthier teeth.  These sweets or "bonbon", as
 they were once called using a French word, have a medical function:
 they cure hoarseness and sore throat.
 Take some blackberries, search them and boil their juice without
 seeds for a long time adding some sugar and mixing with a ladle in
 order to avoid the juice to stick.
 When the mixture becomes thick, put it on a marble board and level
 it with a knife blade in order to have a thickness of about one
 centimetre.  then let it dry to the sun for several days covering
 it with a gauze. When the mixture is well solidified cut it in many
 stock cubes and dip them in castor sugar. Then put these cubes in
 a jar, well closed, and eat them whenever you want, but especially
 in winter.
 With the same recipe it is possible to prepare "bonbon" with wood
 strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.