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Blackberries in Vinegar

6 servings

Ingredients

• selected, large blackberries (as needed)
• good wine vinegar (generous amount)
• sugar (generous amount)
• whole cinnamon (a little)
• cloves (a little)

Instructions

1. Pour good wine vinegar generously over selected large blackberries, ensuring they are well covered, and let stand overnight.
2. The next day, sweeten the vinegar generously with sugar, boil with whole cinnamon and cloves, and pour hot over the berries.
3. The following day, boil the liquid again, let the berries cook once, remove them, boil the liquid for another fifteen minutes, and pour over the fruit.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.