Blackberry Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. blackberries
3 c. water
5 c. sugar
1 1/2 c. self-rising flour
3 Tbsp. soft oleo
3/4 c. milk
2 eggs, beaten
3 Tbsp. sugar

Preparation

Cook blackberries, water and 5 cups sugar until thickened.
Mix flour, oleo, milk, eggs and 3 tablespoons sugar to soft dough. Drop by teaspoons into boiling blackberries.
Cover and let cook 5 minutes (work quickly).
Serve with cream, Cool Whip or ice cream. Or make dumplings out of canned biscuits, rolled out and cut up, or biscuits can be snipped into 8 pieces with kitchen shears, letting each piece drop into boiling blackberries.
Cook as directed.