Our Grandmother's Blackberries
How many of us are letting the days go by for the Blackberrying Expedition? The fruit is hanging thick from every hedge and ditch over the countryside. It’s not just a matter of filling an old straw hat. If you’re wise, you'll bundle the whole family into the car, each armed with a good-sized tin, and make a day of it-with the glorious midday interval of a dip in the river. Of course it’s up to you to reward them with a blackberry dish that is rather super. I looked up my dilapidated 1808 "Town and Country . Housekeeper’s Guide" to see what our great-grandmothers would have suggested, and this is what I found: "Roll.out thin puff paste, lay in a patty-pan; put in blackberries and strew fine sugar over them’ Put on a paste lid, and when baked, cut it open and put in half a pint of cream with the yolks of two eggs, well beaten, and a little sugar." The American housewife has nothing on thatl
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 43
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171Our Grandmother's Blackberries New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 43
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