More Christmas Cookies, 2012

Here is another cookie recipe.  This one is a relatively new recipe that I've worked up within the last 15 years or so.  (Some of my other recipes which I've used for some 30 + years are generational!) 

I always have an abundance of blackberries from my patch out back.  The Missouri Ozarks is known for its wild blackberries.  But I like to grow tame ones - they are the Jumbo variety.  And boy, each berry goes a long way!

Farmer Boy Ozarks Blackberry Squares

Ingredients:

• 3 Tablespoons of butter
• 1 Cup of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 Cups of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• a pinch of ground mace
• 2/3 Cup of apple juice
• 2 Tablespoons of White vinegar
• 1 1/4 Cups of blackberries

Directions: In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar, then mix in the egg. 

In another bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients, except the berries.  Add the creamed mixture to the dry ingredients.  Add in the vinegar and apple juice.  Mix this all together, but don't over mix it.  Fold in the berries.

Pour this into a greased pan 10 X 13 inches, and bake in pre-heated oven at 325 degrees F. for 35 to 40 minutes. 

Leave in pan to cool.  Cut into squares.

I think these are Larrupin' (that's an Ozarks colloquialism, used by some older Ozarks natives & the best I can figure, it means, "Exceedingly Delicious"!) 

"In the Ozark hills, neglected ground will grow up to wild blackberry briars, loaded with fruit in season.  As the shiftless old farmer said, 'Anyone can raise blackberries if he ain't too durned lazy.' "  Laura Ingalls Wilder

I hope you'll try this recipe and then come back here and leave a comment.  And while you're at it, please tell some others about this blog site.  Thanks.  The Old Man in the Bib Overalls