Blueberry cobbler

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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No Mel Hill Techniques© here, as you can see… I used my phone’s camera because it was on hand. I threw out my back (not even sure how I did it) last week, and I was totally useless for days. I tried to make it up to my family by making everyone’s favorite things over the weekend. Steve’s not a dessert guy, but berries are a notable exception. Blueberries are finally in season here, so I wanted to make the sort of thing that he loved when he was a kid.

I made Cook’s Illustrated’s blueberry cobbler. It’s not the prettiest dessert, and I prefer a crisp to a cobbler, but I totally felt like someone’s doting grandma as I made it. For the filling: blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon zest, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. For the biscuit topping: flour, cornmeal, sugar, buttermilk, butter, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.

(Note: the perspective makes it looks like there’s more ice cream than cobbler, but there wasn’t)

For tonight I’m thinking about raspberry sorbet…

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Melissa it looks scrumptious.

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Looks like some gooey goodness. I prefer a crumble too, but this looks worthy of a try!

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Thanks Carrie. Zach, stick to a crumble. I’d do the filling the same way again, but we have a great crisp streusel top recipe that I can send you if you want. The biscuit top on the crumble was more… biscuity. The kids loved it, but it wasn’t my favorite.

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Nice! Looking at the size of that ice cream scoop, why didn’t you leave any for the others?!
alan

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Honestly, it wasn’t as disproportionate as it looks… the pic makes it look like there’s a pint of ice cream on the cobbler, but it’s some sort of foreshortening by the lens.

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Yup…Melissa send away!

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That looks good enough to be on a magazine cover. nice work!