Any Fruit Cobbler
Lots of summer fruit? Or perhaps you're still chugging through the rest of last year's abundant harvest? Either way, if you want to use it up quick and radically reduce the amount of fruit lingering about, make my Any Fruit Cobbler.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 5 cups fruit picked over, cleaned and peeled if necessar
- 1/2-1 1/2 cups sugar taste and adjust to kind of fruit being used
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 TBSP corn starch
- 1 cup flour
- 1/3 cup suagr
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 TBSP butter
- 1 egg beaten
- 3 TBSP buttermilk
- 1 TBSP Sugar
Instructions
- preheat the oven to 400˚
- in a sauce pan combine the fruit and the sugar
- cook on low until it starts to juice-if using whole berries crush them slightly with a potato masher
- mix the water and the cornstarch and stir into the fruit
- increase heat to medium high and cook until bubbling and thick, stirring as needed
- once it's thickened up reduce the heat to low and keep warm while you make the topping
- for the topping combine all the dry ingredients EXCEPT the 1 TBSP of sugar in the bowl of a food processor
- whirl to combine
- chop the butter in small pieces
- add to the processor and pulse to combine, just to the course crumbs stage
- mix the egg and the buttermilk together and pour into the processor
- pulse to combine
- once it forms a dough stop pulsing
- pour the hot fruit into a 2 quart baking dish
- drop six mounds of biscuit dough on top of the fruit
- sprinkle a bit of the 1 TBSP sugar over the top of the biscuits
- bake at 400˚ for 20-25 minutes or until the biscuits are cooked through and no longer doughy underneath
Notes
- because this dish is seasonal and meant to use up what you have, the amount of fruit can vary between 4-6 cups with little to NO problem--simply adjust the sugar, to suit your taste and the fruit ***if you go beyond 6 cups of fruit you may find it necessary to use additional cornstarch to thicken the fruit, simply increase by teaspoons until you reach the thickness you desire-add the cornstarch to a small amount of cold water, add a dash of hot fruit, stir and then add it back to the cooking pot--if you just throw it in it could seize up