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To Dry Blackberries

This recipe dries blackberries with sugar and water in an oven.

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 inspect the blackberries and remove all leaves and stems.

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

Cook and dry

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

  2. Spread the blackberries 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
Provide the fruit that dries down into a chewy, concentrated product.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps preserve the fruit by binding up its moisture.

The step that matters

Scalding the blackberry mixture. Heating slowly and until it scalds thoroughly softens the fruit and draws out its juice so it can be spread and dried evenly. Heating too quickly can scorch the sugar and juice before the fruit is cooked through.

“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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