Dried-fruit cobbler with molasses biscuits

10 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ cup Water
1 cup Orange juice
⅓ cup Orange marmalade
16 ounces Mixed dried fruit, (2 bags) coarsely chopped
1 cup All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
¼ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon Baking soda
1 dash Ground cloves
⅓ cup Chilled stick margarine, cut into small pieces
2 tablespoons Skim milk
2 tablespoons Molasses
1 tablespoon Orange marmalade
2 teaspoons Water

Directions

Combine the first 4 ingredients in a 2-quart baking dish; stir well. Bake at

400 degrees for 30 minutes.

Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and cloves in a bowl; cut in margarine with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

Combine milk and molasses, and add to the flour mixture, stirring just until the dry ingredients are moistened.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 5 or 6 times.

Roll dough to ½-inch thickness, and cut with a 2-inch biscuit cutter into 10 biscuits. Remove the fruit mixture from oven, and arrange biscuits on top of hot fruit mixture. Bake an additional 20 minutes or until the biscuits are golden.

Combine 1 tablespoon marmalade and 2 teaspoons water in a bowl; brush over biscuits. Yield: 10 servings (serving size: ½ cup fruit mixture and 1 biscuit).

Per serving: 261 Calories; 7g Fat (22% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 51g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 146mg Sodium Serving Ideas : Serve warm.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Sept. 1995, page 137 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #403 by igor@... on Jan 28, 1997.

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