Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

July 17, 2016 By in Cooking Method, Course, Cuisine, Desserts, Fruits, Oven Baked, Peaches, Southern, United States Tags: , , , , , , , , , 4 Comments

Classic summer fruit cobbler with simple biscuit topping.
Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

By Sue Lau |Palatable Pastime

This week for #SundaySupper the theme is summer peach recipes. I have loved peaches since I was a small child!  I remember being with my family when my Mom would plan day trips in the summer to different parks and points of interest in the area around St. Louis Missouri and southern Illinois. We’d driven down  old Route 3 many times-  they call that highway the River Road as it stretches southward toward the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and so very close to the river it does wind for some time, with many magnificent river views down off the bluffs in the delta area. As we’d get south of Carbondale, going to one of Mom’s favorite spots- the Trail of Tears state park, we’d go through Anna Illinois, and there were many roadside stands that would sell immense local  peaches. Mom  would tell me years later how she would watch me holding my huge peach with both hands, burying my tiny face in it. It was like a kid eating a watermelon by himself- those were some huge peaches!

As I got older, my Mom would sometimes buy those frozen peach pies and I was never as satisfied as when they were made from fresh fruits. And while that may have suited her in the dead of winter, I always looked forward to the summer months when the market would start getting peaches in- in those days all the fruit was local because the presiding peach variety, the Elberta peach,  simply did not ship well because once picked it wouldn’t ripen any further to be brought in from more southern places. But when shopping in July, markets were filled with the aromas of fresh ripe fruit and it would simply fill the room like a peach potpourri or pomander. And there is nothing like the smell of a ripe peach to get one going and ready to make up any variety of peach recipes, and there are so very many ways it can be done! So be sure to scroll past the recipe to see all of this week’s ideas.

My idea for this week happens to be a biscuit topped cobbler, which truth be told is not a cobbler as I knew it growing up. It seems sometimes the lines between different types of fruit desserts can blur, and a cobbler in one area is not the same as a cobbler in another area. And growing up I knew a cobbler to be like a pie with a top crust but no bottom one, while in other places a cobbler meant a fruit filling topped with a slightly sweet biscuit dumpling. I do enjoy both, but since I’ve already posted a crust topped peach cobbler, it seems the next stop should be the biscuit topping, so without further ado, here it is. Until next time-

~Sue

Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler #SundaySupper

Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

  • Servings: 6-8
  • Difficulty: easy
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Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

Filling Ingredients:

  • 2 pounds fresh ripe peaches (about 7)
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch

Biscuit Topping:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla powder or extract
  • 6 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
  • 1/2 cup milk

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 400ºF.
  2. Cut a small “x” in the bottom of the peaches then blanch in boiling water one minute, then plunge into a bowl of ice water (I do these a few at a time). When cool, tug at the skins around the x to remove, and slice in half along the natural folds, pry apart (I use a butter knife to pry if they don’t separate easily)  and remove the pits. Then slice or chop peaches as you wish.
  3. Place the peaches in a bowl with the remaining filling ingredients and stir, then turn out  into an oblong baking dish or casserole.
  4. Mix together the dry ingredients for the biscuit topping in a mixing bowl, cutting the butter in with a pastry blender until crumbly and flour mix is the size of small peas, then stir in the milk to form a dough.
  5. Drop biscuit dough by rounded spoonfuls on top of the filling in the pan. It doesn’t matter if some filling shows here or there and is in fact preferable.
  6. Bake the cobbler for 25 minutes or until top is golden.
  7. Serve warm with ice cream if you like.

From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com


Biscuit Topped Peach Cobbler

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