Honaker Mountain Blackberry Dumplings
Fruit:
½ to 1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon butter
Blackberries (2 quarts)
Dumplings:
1 cup of flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 to 4 tablespoons vegetable oil or melted butter
Clean, rinse and prepare fruit. Remove and mash 1 or 2 cups of berries for juice. Add flour and sugar mixture to mashed fruit, then mix with remaining berries. Let sit awhile for berries to release fruit. Melt butter in large saucepan with tight-fitting lid. Add fruit and slowly bring to a bare boil. If mixture is too thick, mash additional berries and/or add a small amount of water, just to barely come to surface of fruit.
Then, make dumplings: mix flour, baking powder and salt together in small bowl. Combine milk, egg and oil or butter. When fruit is steaming, stir flour and fruit mixture together, just to moisten.