David, I've always like real juicy cobblers. My mother made them two ways. One was simply to either heat a couple of cups of fresh fruit with a half cup of sugar and a tiny bit of water, or just heat up two cups of canned fruit with its juice. She would then make an ordinary pie crust, line a deep dish with pie crust, pour in half the fruit and juice, lay another layer of pie crust on that fruit, pour in the rest of the fruit and juice, then lay a top layer of pie crust, dotted with butter and sprinkled with sugar and bake it until it was a golden brown. Her other way, and the recipe my wife still uses today is:
1/4 Cup Butter
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Cup All Purpose Flower
1/4 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Cup Milk
2 Cups fresh fruit heated with 1/2 cup Sugar OR
2 Cups canned fruit heated with its juice.
Combine the first 5 ingredients and beat with electric mixer or blender. Pour into greasd deep dish or pan. Then pour the hot fruit and juice on top. Dot with butter and bake in preheated oven at 400 degrees for approximately 40 minutes or until top crust is browned.
As it cooks the batter that started on bottom will rise through the fruit and juice so that most of the crust will be on top.
And depending on how sweet I want it that day, I may put vanilla ice cream on it, or I may just pour a little milk on it, and occasionally I just eat it as is./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
