The Basics: How to Make Berry Cobbler

Published on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, by CHOW Food Team / Edit Post

The Basics: How to Make Berry Cobbler

Easy and fast with a store-bought crust

From the store to the kitchen to the table: We outline the steps that get you from something raw to something cooked using simple ingredients, free of measurements and complicated techniques. A method that you can have in your back pocket and whip out whenever you like. We call it recipe-free cooking.

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  • a large mixing bowl
  • a spoon
  • a pie plate or small baking dish
  • a timer
  • 6 pints of berries (any kind except strawberries, which get too watery)
  • sugar
  • flour
  • a third of a stick of butter
  • one store-bought frozen pie crust (thawed)

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  • I's still searching for the culinary bible that says that "Southern" versions of a recipe are considered the gospel, and furthermore the singular definition of cobbler.

    Until that turns up I'll maintain an appreciation for the many varities of recipes and methods of preparation. Cooking and eating would be so broing otherewise.

  • A true old-fashioned Southern cobbler is most like a fruit pie with no bottom crust. The top can be latticed or flat just like with a regular pie. The cobblers with cake-like doughs, or crusts mixed in a a re newer products created for out-of-the-mix-box cooks.

  • Hmmm, doesn't it turn out better if you soak the berries in juices+sugar for a while first?

  • this is still just PIE, not cobbler. Actually more of an upside down tart. I often have to patch my tart crust.

    Cobblers involve a wet batter of some sort.

  • Hi yahtzii. Here's a link to CHOW's Basic Pie Dough:

    http://www.chow.com/recipes/10746

    Deborah

  • There's a pie crust recipe around every corner. Check any random cookbook or google "pie crust recipe" for about a million.

    In fact, I'm kind of thankful that they didn't link us to one, because, come on...does the world need another?

    There's also pretty good agreement on a "standard" pie crust recipe so it's not as if you'll run into a bunch of confusing options. A little more fat here, a...+READ

    There's a pie crust recipe around every corner. Check any random cookbook or google "pie crust recipe" for about a million.

    In fact, I'm kind of thankful that they didn't link us to one, because, come on...does the world need another?

    There's also pretty good agreement on a "standard" pie crust recipe so it's not as if you'll run into a bunch of confusing options. A little more fat here, a little less there.

    Try: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Ever-Pie-Crust/Detail.aspx-COLLAPSE

  • I know this is recipe-free cooking, but can you at least link us to a pie crust recipe so we can make it ourselves?