Cobblers. Momma could do them soooo well! I remember particularly loving her crusts. She always put one on the bottom and one on the top. Did you know that most recipes use the easy way out by putting a biscuit or cake-like crust on top? I haven't completely look through her recipes yet, but I couldn't find one she had written. (Perhaps I'll run across it one day.) Apparently in her later years she also looked for the easy way out. She had written in the back of one of her recipe books the pages that showed cobbler recipes. None of those, however, showed me how she did the crusts still "warm" in my memory.
I'm a fairly good cook and have had enough experiences in the kitchen to have a good idea of how to replicate her original delicacy, but I wasn't sure about whether the crust was just a pie crust or if it had sugar and exactly what she did with the fruit in that cooking pan. I scoured my own cookbooks as well as those I brought from Momma's house. Still finding no semblances of a "real" cobbler, I naturally turned to the Internet. (This part probably wouldn't have pleased Momma. She felt the computer was the ruin of civilization. Some days I agree.)
Voile'! I found just what I was looking for and made it for a church homegroup bash. It was fabulous and as close as you'll come to her cobbler.
Check it out on this website: http://allrecipes.com. It is called "Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler".
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The cobbler was delicious last night! I loved the double crust! I do think my homemade vanilla ice cream was a nice topping to your delicious cobbler!
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