Blackberry Cobbler

Ingredients

• 4 cups blackberries, adjustable to pan size
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch adjust to berry moisture
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar add more if you like sweet (i like mine a bit sour)
• 2 cups water
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1 cup margarine
• 2/3 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish, or use a cast iron pan or a pie stone as I did :).
2. Place the blackberries into a large saucepan; add the cornstarch and 1 1/2 cup of sugar. Pour in the water, and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly until the berries have thickened, about 5 minutes. Just make sure the berries have a nice thickening about them adjust cornstarch to ensure the berries will set up. Pour into the prepared baking dish.
3. Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and 2/3 cup of sugar together in a mixing bowl. Cut in the margarine until it is the size of peas. Stir in the milk until a soft dough forms, (or cheat and use the food processor :), then drop by spoonfuls onto the hot blackberry topping.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 30 to 45 minutes.

 

This recipe is amazing! even though it was nearly 80 degrees the day i made it everyone wanted to eat it straight out of the oven and i must say it's soooo good hot! And since our summer has been sooo dreary the main pick me up has been the amazing berries we are getting from the farm!

These raspberries came from Terry's Berries on River Road in Puyallup and were huge, at least the size of Iain's thumb! They were more tham amazing and about 1/2 of them ended up in the triple berry pie recipe from yesterday!

                                        (This picture Robert took at 2am outside of Kaparuk)

 

On a different note my husband leaves for the north slope today, back to work for 2 weeks. His leaving always fills me with conflicting feelings. On one hand there are some how 1/2 as many dishes, 1/2 as much laundry, and 1/2 as much food eaten when he's gone. We have a fairly stable routine, and the kids pretty much, well they are deffinately calmer without daddy stirring them up-lol.

Then again I seem to be missing him so much more in the recent few months, especially at bed time he makes the bed so warm when I'm cold-which is very often. I also miss his yard maintenance he loves to mow and edge the lawn and I love to let him :) 

Now after writing all about it I wish he would hurry up and leave already! grrr...so he can come home that much sooner :)