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Berry Dumplings

Berry dumplings made from sweet dough filled with berries and cooked in boiling milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Berry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dumplings

  1. Make the sweet dumpling dough.

  2. Shape the dough like biscuits.

  3. Create a depression in the middle of the dough.

  4. Place a spoonful of berries in the depression.

  5. Gather the edges to close the dough.

Cook

  1. Drop the dumplings into a pan of boiling milk.

  2. Cook the dumplings in the oven at 400°F (200°C) for 15 to 20 minutes.

  3. Baste the dumplings three times with the milk.

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

Berries
Provide the fruity filling and juicy, sweet centre of each dumpling.
Sweet dumpling dough
Forms the soft, bread-like wrapper that encloses the berries and sets in the oven.
Milk
Boiling milk in the pan and basting adds moisture and promotes browning on the dumplings.

The step that matters

Gathering the edges to close the dough. If the seams are not sealed well, the berry juice can leak out during baking, leaving dumplings dry inside and the filling spilled into the pan.

“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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