Elements :

1 quart recent blackberries
2 cups white sugar, or to style
2 cups water
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 egg yolk
5 tablespoons milk

Instructions :

Place blackberries, sugar, water, butter, and cinnamon in a big saucepan. Cook dinner and stir sometimes over medium warmth till have began to interrupt down and kind a sauce, about 20 to half-hour.In the meantime, whisk collectively the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Reduce within the shortening with a knife or pastry blender till the combination resembles coarse crumbs. Stir the egg yolk into the crumbs. Add the milk a tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork, till the flour combination is moistened. Don’t add extra milk than you want: while you squeeze a handful of the moistened pastry combination, it ought to kind a ball.
Divide the dough in half and form into small balls. Some folks like flat dumplings so that they to roll right into a flat circle and lower into strips, then lower strips into squares.
Drop dumplings (balls or strips) into the berries. Simmer the dumplings, coated, over medium warmth for quarter-hour. You might push the dumplings down into the juice however don’t stir till they’re absolutely cooked or they are going to clump collectively.
**I attempted each the dumpling balls and the strips, and I favor the strips finest!! I rolled the dough out to about 1/4 inch thickness and simply dropped them in. YUMMMMY!!
Nice with ice cream!