Michaelmas dumplings with blackberries and apples recipe
A comforting childhood recipe perfect for blackberry season. These sweet dumplings are a wonderful way to end an autumn meal. Serve with fresh pouring cream or home-made custard.
Ingredients
- 100 g fresh blackberries
- 1 medium sized cooking apple (Bramley apples are best)
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g self-raising flour
- 25 g butter
- 1 tbsp and 3 tsp white granulated sugar
- 4 tbsp cold milk
- 0.5 pints water
Details
- Cuisine: English
- Recipe Type: Dessert
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 20 mins
- Cooking Time: 25 mins
- Serves: 4
Step-by-step
- Wash the blackberries and then peel, core and quarter the cooking apple. Place the flour and the salt in a mixing bowl and with your fingertips rub the butter or margarine into the flour.
- Stir in 3 level teaspoons of white sugar and then mix to a soft dough with about 4 tablespoons of cold milk.
- Divide the dumpling dough into 4 pieces on a floured board and carefully mould a piece around each quarter of an apple, making sure that the apple is completely covered.
- Dissolve about 1 tablespoon of sugar in the water in a medium sized saucepan and add the blackberries. Bring them to a gentle boil and then place the apple dumplings, cover the pan and simmer for 25 minutes, do NOT take the lid off for the first 15 minutes!
- Serve one apple dumpling per person with some of the blackberries spooned over the top; fresh pouring cream or custard makes a nice accompaniment.
Recipe devised by Karen Burns-Booth at Lavendar and Lovage for Forest Holidays.
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