BUSY DAY COBBLER

An extremely quick cherry cobbler dessert

This recipe came from a PTA recipe collection from my Aunt's school a number of years ago. It's not a true, classic cobbler, but I think it's better. My favorite dessert!

Ingredients

(serves 6)

50 g butter (or margarine, if you must)
100 g sugar
150 ml milk
100 g flour
10 ml baking powder
400 g tart cherries (one normal U.S. can)
20 g sugar to sweeten and thicken (use less or more as needed)

Procedure

Preheat oven to 175C
Drain cherries, saving liquid.
Cream butter and sugar together.
Alternately add in milk and sifted dry ingredients.
Pour into a buttered and floured casserole dish.
Top evenly with cherries. Sprinkle sugar on top and cover with saved liquid/juice.
Bake 45-50 minutes.

Notes

The batter will expand and surround the cherries so they're evenly mixed throughout the cobbler. The juice will congeal to fruity and puddinglike. Serve warm topped with cream, milk or ice cream. (I prefer milk). If any is left, it's good cold, too.

As the name implies, this is a very quick recipe to make. Depending on how soft the butter is to start with, or whether or if you use a food processor (I don't, but it should work) this recipe takes only 5 to 10 minutes to mix.

You can use any unsweetened canned fruit for this recipe. You can also use frozen fruit, by thawing it before adding to the pan. Berries or peaches are standard substitutes. Yesterday I made one with crushed pineapple. I used brown, rather than white sugar atop the fruit. It tasted very much like pineapple upside down cake (though the appearance was a bit different).

Rating

Difficulty: easy, I've been making this since I was about 8 or 9.
Time: 5 minutes preparation, 45 minutes cooking.
Precision: approximate measurement OK.

Contributor

 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott 
Calcomp/Sanders Display Products, Scottsdale, Arizona 
suze@terak.UUCP

Recipe last modified: 3 Mar 86

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