Apricot Cobbler


2 cups sliced canned apricots

1/4 cup sugar - 1 tbs. butter

Place apricots and sugar in deep baking dish 6 x 10?. Dot with butter and place in (375) oven to heat.

Make pastry: Sift 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt. Cut in 1/2 cup shortening. Add 1 egg yolk to 1/4 cup cold water. Blend well and add to flour mixture. Roll out thinly. Cut in 1: strips - crisscross over fruit.

Sprinkle with 1 tbs. sugar. Bake at 450 degrees for 45 minutes.

Fruit Cobbler

2 cups berries 1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
OR 1 pint can of any fruit
1 teaspoon shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Pour boiling water over berries and sugar and let stand. Cream shortening and sugar and add other ingredients. Put batter in greased square pan and pour fruit over batter.


the recipe stops there - it's an oldie

Oh, wow, Mama!!!! Thank you so much. These are going to help me tremendously. The cobblers that my grandmother made were 'chewy' and not all 'cakey' (I hope you understand what that means as I seem to be at a loss for the proper definition here) and I loved them. How can you tell by looking at a recipe whether it's going to turn out 'chewy' or 'cakey'?

trying to "define" and explain is hard on line - try the recipes that take more work - don't use the recipes with the cake mixes in them - and you may have to combine a few different recipes to get what you are looking for - that is why I posted different ones

I was tooling through my aunt's recipe box today. She died last year at age 90. I found this recipe pasted on a yellowed card. It was cut from a newspaper clipping and must be at least 50-70 years old. I have no idea of course from which newspaper or who may have been 'Hope'.

Arrange in greased 8-in. square baking pan
2 1/2 cups sliced, drained canned peaches

Sprinkle with a mixture of:
1/4 cup peach syrup, 1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. grated lemon rind, 1/2 tsp. almond extract
Heat in oven about 5 minutes while preparing batter.

Sift together into bowl:
1 cup sifted flour, 1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. double-action baking powder

Cut in with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture looks like 'meal':
1/4 cup shortening

Stir in: 1 egg, well beaten, 1/2 cup peach syrup

Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.


Spread dough over mixture in pan. Sprinkle with 2 tbsp. sugar. Bake 30 minutes in moderately hot oven (400). Serves 9.