Strawberry Cobbler

This recipe is one of my all-time favorites.  It's a dessert that can be whipped up in a matter of minutes.  When we went to the beach back in may, I mixed up all the dry ingredients and put them in a Ziploc baggie. It was like having my own boxed mix.  When it was time to make it the cobbler, I just dumped the mix into a bowl and added a cup of milk.  The easiest type of cobbler is probably peach.  It's so easy to buy a large can of sliced peaches in heavy syrup.  It's the perfect amount and the peaches are already sweetened.

The strawberries I used for tonight's cobbler were bought fresh from Costco.  I cut them and macerated them by adding sugar. You could do the same with fresh peaches or blueberries.  I've never tried any other fruit beyond that.  I also always add some of the juice to the top of the cobbler to sweeten it even more.

This is a very common recipe and is very close to a recipe that was mentioned in the movie, Steel Magnolias.  Steel Magnolias is a long-time favorite of mine. In the movie (during one of the salon scenes), they talk about the recipe called, Cuppa Cuppa Cuppa. 

Truvy:  "It's a cuppa flour, a cuppa sugar, a cuppa fruit cocktail with the juice, mix and bake 'til gold and bubbly."

Clairee:  "Sounds awfully rich."

Truvy:  "It is, so I serve it with ice cream to cut the sweetness."

 

I haven't tried Truvy's recipe, but my friend Megan tried it once and said that it wasn't all that good. I would say that my mom's cobbler recipe is the best I've ever had.

 

Fruit Cobbler

1 stick margarine or butter

1 cup flour

1 cup sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup milk (I use skim and it also works)

1 qt. fruit (with some sweetened juice)

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Melt 1 stick margarine in 9 x 13 baking dish in heated oven (make sure you do not allow your butter to brown). Mix together all ingredients except fruit and add to heated dish. Add approx 1 quart fruit on top of bread mixture (with some of the sweetened juices). Cook about 25 minutes (or until gold and bubbly).

I used a 10 x 15 dish tonight so I increased the recipe. I used 1 1/2 cups of flour, sugar and milk and 4 1/2 tsp. of baking powder. Try this one, you'll love it.  Enjoy!!