Recipe#10459

Title: Blackberry

From: swade@ameriSPAMtech.net (Marie Stewart) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.baking 
 Subject: Black Berries and Dumplings 
 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:23:52 GMT 
 Message-ID: <339e730b.16730220@news.chicago.il.ameritech.net> 

2 quarts blackberries
 1 cup sugar
 1 batch dumpling dough
 Heat in large pan blackberries and sugar until bubbly and syrupy.
 Drop in dumplings by the tablespoon and cook 10 minutes uncovered and
 10 minutes covered, stirring occassionally.
 Dumpling Dough
 3 Tablespoons shortening
 1 1/2 cups flour
 2 teaspoons baking powder
 3/4 teaspoon salt
 3/4 cup milk
 Cut shortening into flour, baking powder and salt until mixture
 resembles fine crumbs.  Stir in milk.  Drop into berries.  Makes
 about 10 dumplings.
 We usually let it cool somewhat and added a small amount of milk
 before eating.