A Cobbler from the Wild
Life up here just keeps getting better and better. First the garden started coming in, then the chickens and now blackberries.
When we moved in, there were wild blackberry bushes everywhere and getting them under control was one of the first tasks that they guys tackled. They knocked down tons of bushes with the tractor and then we got six goats who have been eating them and keeping them from growing back. But we still have plenty left.
A couple weeks ago, Farmer Paul took a hike around the property to collect enough blackberries for dessert and came back with a dozen. That’s is…12 berries in the bottom of the 2 gallon bucket. So we waited. And waited. For two weeks. And then today happened. I came home from work to a bowl on the counter overflowing with the luscious, sweet fruit.
But then I had to make the most difficult decision of my entire day. What to do with them! Just eating them with some whipped cream was tempting, but didn’t seem celebratory enough. After all, at this point I can walk out my back door and eat as many berries as I want. It needed to be better than that. What Farmer Paul wanted was a wedge of pie crust tucked into a bowl of berries and topped with whipped cream. What Nick wanted was pound cake covered in berries and cream. Austin and Ryan are easy, they just wanted dessert. Pie crust and pound cake take too long for a weeknight dessert and since I didn’t want to have to wait until 10 before we had dessert, I still had to decide what to do. I started going through my cookbooks.
Then Mom swooped in and rescued me from my indecision. She brought in an old cookbook of hers and flipped it open to a Quick Fruit Cobbler recipe. Quick and easy to whip together…bakes in 40 minutes. Works for me.
Unfortunately, the 40 minutes was more like 60, so it was still later than I wanted before we had dessert, and it was just O.K. Everyone else liked theirs, but I didn’t even bother finishing mine. It wasn’t good enough to waste the calories, especially with our anniversary weekend coming up. I’ll save my calorie allowance for that!
Quick Fruit Cobbler
from the More-with-Less Cookbook
Preheat oven to 350.
Combine in bowl:
3/4 c sugar
3/4 c flour
3/4 c milk
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
Pour into 9×9 greased baking pan.
Add:
3 c. fruit – fresh, frozen or canned.
Bake for 40 minutes. (or an hour!)
I also added about 1/4 c rolled oats to the batter because I was afraid that the fresh berries would add too much juice to the batter.
Recipes | greengrassliving | 
August 13, 2008 9:37 am
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