Mark wrote:

> My goal was to make a fruit-flavored ganache using dried
> fruit. I used my poppyseed grinder to make pastes out of
> Trader Joe's dried wild bluberries and dark sweet cherries.
> Both made very stiff, sticky pastes after running them
> through the grinder.
>
> In a double boiler, I heated TJ's organic heavy whipping
> cream. To 8 oz. cream, I stirred in about 8 oz. fruit
> paste. "Stir" probably implies an easier process than it
> was. It took a lot of stirring and scraping to incorporate
> the paste into the cream. I did the blueberries first,
> and began to wonder whether this would work at all, when
> suddenly it all seemed to dissolve into the cream.

It might have been easier to add the cream into the fruit pastes, just a
tablespoon at a time, while kneading to incorporate.

Bob