Food: Fruit Cobbler

I was looking through my copy of the Household Searchlight Recipe Book from 1938, and I found some recipes written in the back of the book. In going through the handwritten recipes, I found one for a simple fruit cobbler that I decided to try.





My great-aunt's handwriting is a little hard to read, so I'll transcribe it for you. The parts in italics are the additions I made for clarity.

Fruit Cobbler

Light oven. Set at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a baking dish, I used an 8x8 pyrex dish put 1/4 pound one stick butter or margarine, and melt in oven. Sift into mixing bowl:

1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
3 tsps baking powder

Pour one cup milk over flour mixture and beat hard. Pour this into the pan with the melted butter, and place 2 cups chopped fruit over the batter. Pour 1 cup sugar you may need to reduce this or even eliminate it completely depending on how sweet your fruit is over fruit, bake one hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

I ended up making a plum cobbler. I plan to use this recipe again with other fruits.



You can tell that I didn't peel the plums. I normally don't peel fruits or vegetables if the peel is edible. Why throw away fiber?