Apple and dried cherry cobbler with buttermilk biscuits

10 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 larges Ida red apples peeled; cored and sliced
½ cup Light brown sugar; (up to 3/4)
3 tablespoons Flour
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Ground cloves
Freshly grated nutmeg
1½ cup Dried cherries
2 tablespoons Fresh squeezed lemon juice
1½ teaspoon Grated lemon peel
3 tablespoons Unsalted butter; cut into bits
2 cups Flour
1 tablespoon Sugar
2½ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Baking soda
½ teaspoon Salt
4 tablespoons Cold unsalted butter; cut into bits
2 tablespoons Cold vegetable shortening; cut into bits
1 cup Heavy cream; plus 2 tablespoons
Cinnamon sugar; for sprinkling

Directions

FILLING

BISCUIT TOPPING

Heat oven to 375 degrees..

In a bowl, combine apples, sugar, flour, spices to taste, cherries, lemon juice and peel, and butter. Toss to mix; transfer to a buttered deep round baking dish.

Into a bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt. Add butter and shortening and blend with your fingertips or pastry blender until it resembles coarse meal. Add 1 cup of the cream, stirring until dough forms a ball. Be careful not to overwork dough. On a lightly floured surface, turn out dough and pat into a ½-inch thick round. Use a 2 to 2½-inch biscuit cutter to stamp out rounds. Gather scraps into a round and stamp out more rounds.

Arrange rounds, lightly touching one another, on top of apple filling so they form one continuous layer. Brush tops with remaining 2 tablespoons heavy cream and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar to taste. Bake cobbler in middle of oven 35 to 40 minutes, or until filling is bubbling and dough is pale golden.

Yield: 10 to 12 servings

Notes: Thanksgiving Special with Drew Nieporent Recipe by: TVFN Show #TGSP94

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #921 by Sue <suechef@...> on Nov 23, 1997

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