SUGARED BLACKBERRIES Recipe

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Ingredients

1-1/2 PINTS
Mix mashed fruit with sugar for a sort of jam that he says keeps for a year when refrigerated. The flavor is fresh and intense and delicious spooned onto hot buttered buttermilk biscuits or yeast roll
3 cups fresh blackberries or 3/4 pound frozen blackberries, thawed and drained
3 cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Preparation

Step 1

Mash berries with sugar and salt in a bowl with a potato masher until berries are liquefied and sugar has dissolved.
Let stand, covered and chilled, 3 days (to allow flavors to develop), stirring once a day.

COOKS' NOTES: Do not puree berries in a food processor or blender, which will pulverize the seeds and impart a bitter taste.
Sugared berries keep, chilled, 1 month.