Frank's Recipes! Bonbon di more (Blackberry Sweets)

Frank's Recipes
Free Recipes Archive

Free Counter by Pliner.Net
dating, lasik, search, shopping
Visitors Since July 1, 1998

This location is no longer being supported or updated.
Please adjust your browser favorites to
http://www.franksrecipes.com

MENU

ť Cookbooks
ť Hints & Tips
ť Foodservice
ť Links
ť My Awards
ť My Guestbook
ť Recipe Archive
ť Software
ť Volume Cooking
ť Where Are You
ť About

Help support this site

Recipe Archives

Bonbon di more (Blackberry Sweets)

This recipe has been found in Sant'Agata and it reminds the past times where only rich people could afford to buy sweets and cakes in general, while young poor people had to wait until Christmas or when they were ill. On the other hand the thrifty use of sugar permitted to have healthier teeth. These sweets or "bonbon", as they were once called using a French word, have a medical function: they cure hoarseness and sore throat.

Take some blackberries, search them and boil their juice without seeds for a long time adding some sugar and mixing with a ladle in order to avoid the juice to stick.

When the mixture becomes thick, put it on a marble board and level it with a knife blade in order to have a thickness of about one centimetre. Then let it dry to the sun for several days covering it with a gauze. When the mixture is well solidified cut it in many stock cubes and dip them in castor sugar. Then put these cubes in a jar, well closed, and eat them whenever you want, but especially in winter.

With the same recipe it is possible to prepare "bonbon" with wood strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.