Apples are one of my favorite fruits and I could spend days
cooking with them. I love this time of
year when most of the varieties are getting ripe and ready. When I was first learning to cook my mother
showed me a recipe for cobbler that is well suited to apples, peaches, cherries
or any other fruit one has a notion to put into it, although my list here
narrows it down to the ones I care to use in it. I’ve seen blackberries, blueberries, and
quite a few other variations. I will eat
them, but I don’t care for them.
She would say “A cup of flour, a cup of sugar, a cup of milk
and a stick of butter.” Melt the butter
into a baking pan or glass baking dish in the oven at 350 degrees. Mix the other ingredients in a bowl and when
the butter is melted and the pan pre-heated pour them over the butter. If you pour into the middle of the pan the
butter will push out to the edges and upwards so as to keep the cobbler from
sticking. She would normally use pie
filling from a can, but I have since preferred to prepare my apples
myself.
I prepare my apples in the same manner I do for most of the
baking applications I use them in. I
peel and cut them into a pan with enough water to coat the bottom. I cook them on a medium high heat and
sprinkle in some white sugar, some brown sugar, some cinnamon, nutmeg and a
splash of vanilla. I cook them into a
thick apple sauce and leave some of the pieces larger.
The Mix
I pour the apples into the batter in the baking dish and
spread them out towards the edges and as evenly as possible. I then bake the cobbler in the oven on 350
for around 45 minutes or until the top gets a nice golden color and the sides
develop a darker crust and begin to draw back from the sides of the dish.
A glass of milk or a scoop of vanilla ice cream tops off a
bowl or plate full of cobbler nicely and warms the body up wonderfully when the
weather turns cooler. God made apples to
grow in the soils in this area on slopes that are not well suited to other
types of crops and he planted me right here as well, so maybe it’s a natural
thing that I love apples.
Proverbs 25:11
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