The base of this turns out to be a bit thin and liquidy. If you strain the juice from the fruit, add a couple of tablespoons of flour to the juice, and then pour the juice over the fruit in the baking dish, the base will be semi-firm.
You do not need to sprinkle the full 1/2 cup of sugar on the berries; with sweeter berries, much less will often suffice.
If you would like a sweeter, candy-like batter, try adding more sugar to the batter. I wouldn't recommend putting more than 1 1/4 cups of sugar into the batter, though!the crust of the batter will be very candy-like, but the centre of the batter will not properly bake if you do.
Geoff Loker University of Toronto, CSRI, Artificial Intelligence USENET: {ihnp4 decwrl utzoo uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!gkloker CSNET: gkloker@toronto ARPANET: gkloker.toronto@csnet-relayRecipe last modified: 21 Mar 86
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