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To Dry Blackberries

A method for drying blackberries by simmering with sugar and water, then spreading and oven-drying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Dry Blackberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Carefully sort the blackberries, removing all leaves and stems.

  2. In a large pot, combine the blackberries, sugar, and water.

Dry

  1. Heat the mixture slowly until it scalds thoroughly for several minutes.

  2. Spread the berries with the juice on platters or plates.

  3. Dry them in a partly cooled oven.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Blackberries
Form the main body of the dried fruit and provide the flavour that concentrates as water evaporates.
Sugar
Sweetens the berries and helps preserve them and give a chewy texture as they dry.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture slowly until it scalds. Heating slowly lets the berries soften and release their juice evenly, so the fruit scalds thoroughly without scorching on the bottom of the pot. Thorough scalding softens the skins and begins drawing out water, which helps the berries dry evenly later.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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