I grew up with fruit pies and fruit crisps. When I think of cobbler, I get a vague notion of something greatly resembling fruit pie, but with only a top crust that’s made of pie crust.
When you think of cobbler, is that the right image? If not, can you educate me?
I think of a cobbler more as fruit covered with sweet drop biscuits. The biscuits supposedly resemble paving cobbles.
Same here. Basically, pie filling topped with biscuits. Something that looks like this. I don’t like the pie crust versions as much.
Another is to make a sweet batter (1c flour, 1c sugar, 1/2c milk, 1tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder), pour it into a pan with a stick of butter already melted in it, then add cooked apples with cinnamon, etc. on top. bake at 350 for 50 min. The batter rises up amongst the apples.
It can be that. In that case, I’d picture the top crust in a lattice of crossing strips.
When I was in Boy Scouts, we’d make cobbler by pouring a can of pie filling into a Dutch oven, sprinkling a box of yellow cake mix over it, putting a little butter on top, and cooking until warm and yummy.
I make cobbler with a topping that’s like a cornmeal biscuit. However, a basic biscuit top is the “achetypical” cobbler in my view.
A pie with only a top crust is just a deep-dish pie, it’s not cobbler.
Agreed. Cobblers are super-simple to make. Anything that involves “lattice-work” isn’t a cobbler.
Is the cobbler in this picture topped with a plain pie crust?
http://www.bfeedme.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/Peach-Cobbler.jpg
I’m trying to come up with a cobbler recipe for someone whose favorite dessert is peach cobbler but who doesn’t know enough about cooking to point me in the right direction, recipe-wise. This picture is the closest to what his favorite cobblers look like.
That’s what it looks like to me. It’s not drop biscuits, at any rate.
