With the first week of classes out the way the men's and women's tennis teams got together for an afternoon of mixed doubles and evening of blackberry picking. The evening was especially sweet (beyond the ripe berries) because the teams traveled to pick berries on Prof Delbert Hutchinson's spread on the South Fork of the Walla Walla River. Hutch was Whitman's 2010 convocation speaker so it was nice for everyone to spend time with him. Hutch's convocation can be found here. Once the berries were picked (I think a large majority of berries went vine to belly) we convened to the fire ring for conversation and dutch oven fresh blackberry cobbler. Speaking of dutch oven cobbler, here is Hutch's no fail receipe:
warm-up dutch ovens in the fire- melt half a stick of butter in dutch oven
- mix box of vanilla cake mix according to directions (one box per oven)
- pour cake mix into the oven
- pour in berries (the more the better)
- put lid on dutch oven, place oven over coals and cover with hot coals
- cook for 30 mins turning oven every 10 mins
- Enjoy
The fresh blackberry cobbler was absolutely incredible!
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