Weekend Cooking #11: Peach Cobbler To Celebrate My 1st Blogoversary

Today is my 1st Blogoversary. Normally to celebrate occasions, I would prefer a chocolate devil’s food cake with some nice confectioner’s sugar icing on it. But it is June and the peaches are delicious, so a nice summer Peach Cobbler seemed the way to go, and it is scrumptious. The recipe comes from a really exceptional cookbook called How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman and can be found on page 630 (listed under Blueberry Cobbler)

Peach Cobbler

4 – 6 cups of slices peaches, washed and well dried
1 cup sugar, or to taste
8 tbsp (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into bits, plus some for greasing the pan
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 egg
½ tsp vanilla extract

Optional: cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.

1- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Toss the fruit with half the sugar, and spread it in a slightly puttered 8 inch square or 9 inch round baking pan.

2- Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, ½ cup sugar and cinnamon and nutmeg in the container of a food processor and pulse once or twice. Add the butter and process for 10 seconds, until the mixture is well blended. By hand, beat in the egg and vanilla.

3- Drop this mixture onto the fruit by tablespoonfuls, do not spread it out. Bake until golden yellow and just starting to brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Serve immediately.

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