Blackberry Dumplings. These simple blackberry dumplings capture the essence of sweet, sweet summertime thanks to a little help from your slow cooker. Frozen berries are gloriously juicy when mixed with sugar and lemon juice. As soon as the mixture starts to bubble and boil, you know it's tim.
You can cook Blackberry Dumplings using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Blackberry Dumplings
- You need of Blackberry——————–.
- You need 24 ounces of fresh blackberries.
- It’s 1 cup of water.
- You need 2 cups of sugar.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of kosher salt.
- Prepare of Dumplings————————.
- You need 1/2 cup of blackberry juice you harvested from the blackberries.
- Prepare 1-1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
- It’s 1/4 cup of lard or shortening.
- Prepare 1 of large egg.
- Prepare of All purpose flour for dusting.
Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, nutmeg, remaining sugar and salt. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls into boiling blackberry mixture. Transfer dumplings to individual serving bowls, using a slotted spoon. Spoon blackberry mixture over dumplings, and serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
Blackberry Dumplings step by step
Wash the blackberries. Using a sieve smash the berries through the sieve..
Use the 1/2 cup water to thin the pulp and push through the sieve. Producing the juice..
A few seeds will get through. This is a lot of work. Now if you don't mind the seeds bypass these steps. As you squash the pulp through using some of the juices to thin the pulp out enough to pass through the sieve, remove the pulp and seeds and continue in batches..
Next batch..
There is only about 1 million seeds being removed. So save some add to a brown paper bag to allow natural drying and then you can plant them and grow your own blackberry plants..
OK I got 5-1/2 cups of juice.
Put this on to heat and simmer adding the sugar and salt..
Add the ingredients except the juices in a bowl for the dumplings..
Mash and mix them together..
Add the juices and knead into a ball..
Roll it out on a flour dusted surface..
Cut into the sizes you desire..
Add to the boiling juices..
Let gently boil for 15 minutes stirring occasionally mix the cornstarch and water and add. Stir while it simmers for 5 minutes cover and turn off heat..
Serve this will go good with your favorite ice cream..
Cooking Instructions Pour berries, water, brown and white sugar, salt, and lemon juice into a large pot. Heat over medium-high heat till they come to a light boil. Stewed Blackberries and Dumplings Fresh blackberries, sweetened and stewed and topped with sweet steamed dumplings. Combine blackberries, sugar, water and nutmeg in a saucepan on top of the stove. Bring to a boil, then turn down to medium boil and cover the pot.
