Blackberry Cobbler

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1½ cups flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2¼ tsp baking powder
• ¹⁄₃ cup milk
• 2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 Tbsp sugar

 

• Melt butter in 10-inch baking dish. Set aside.
• Syrup:  Heat sugar and water until sugar dissolves. Set aside.
• Mix flour, salt and baking powder. Cut butter into flour until particles are like fine crumbs.
• Add milk and stir with a fork until dough leaves sides of bowl.
• Turn onto floured board. Knead 3 or 4 times. Roll out to 11” × 9” × ¼” rectangle.
• Spread berries over dough. Sprinkle with cinnamon and roll up like a jelly roll.
• Cut into 1¼” thick slices. Place in pan over melted butter.
• Pour syrup around slices.
• Bake at 350° for 1 Hour.
• 15 minutes before removing from oven, sprinkle 2 Tbsp sugar over crust.

I double this recipe and bake in a 9” × 13” pan.

I also eat it warm with vanilla ice cream.