There comes a time in every home cook’s experience that you just BOMB!! Nothing works, the more you try the more ingredients you waste until you come to the moment when you say, HELP!!
That was my experience with Nanny’s Fruit Cobbler. I used frozen fruit, non-frozen fruit, all purpose flour, self rising flour, new-from-the-grocery-shelf flour, room temp this and cold that, and still—you can hear the echo of HELP!!
I’ve seen cobblers done before, for goodness sake, I have done them before, and nothing seems to help this particular recipe. The crust lingers on the bottom, it IS golden brown, just on the bottom, and nothing I can think to do will help this crust rise again. My comments on the show still hold true, nothing that a little vanilla ice cream couldn’t cure, but I wanted that perfect, bubbly, brown crusted cobbler to LOOK pretty. It’s sweet enough, the fruit is tender and juicy, the crust, when you can dig it up, is light and somewhat flaky, it’s just on the bottom.
So, my dear friends, HELP!! Help me with your comments, your ideas, your suggestions, and if you have a similar cobbler recipe, please be so kind as to hit “Contact” at the top of this page and sent them to me. I’ll post some of the best ones.
I still do think that small children will not know the difference with this cobbler, I just didn’t have any small children around to do taste-testing. We will progress on to other desserts, and I will continue trying to solve the mystery of Nanny’s Fruit Cobbler and hope for better success.
Again, it just goes to show that when you cook at home, it truly is the effort, the care and concern, the love for family and friends that comes through. All efforts in the kitchen are always appreciated, and when failures happen, it is without fail that friends step in and give you courage, hope, big hugs, and maybe a large glass of wine (or Mint Julep), and say to you, “This too, shall pass.”
The Lemon Chicken as this show’s entrée is divine, savory, and citrus-y, I know for a fact that I didn’t fail with that dish—I hope you 
enjoy it with your family. It was always a go-to dish for my mother, a home run every time, and with all that glorious juicy lucy so perfect for sopping up with some good bread, or ladling over the Green Rice Soufflé… who needs dessert???
Happy cooking!
Recipes:
Green Rice Souffle
Lemon Chicken
Lemon Maple Syrup Dressing
Mint Julep
Nanny’s Fruit Cobbler
Ann, I don’t know what happen to the cobbler. But, this is the way I cook mine with this same recipe. I use a 9X13 pan. Melt the butter in the oven in the same pan. I mix milk,sugar,self rising flour, in a bowl. Pour over the melted butter. Then I pour the fruit on top and the crust always rises. I have use frozen thawed fruit. Our favorite is blackberries and peach. I don’t know if this will help. Getting ready to watch your show in an hour. Have a Blessed Sunday.
Hi, Ann!
The only suggestion I can make is to try self-rising flour instead of all-purpose, or to add 1 to 2 teaspoons baking powder to the all-purpose flour.
My mother used to make a similar recipe, but she layered the elements in the opposite order: fruit on the bottom, then batter, then melted butter.
I hope one of these suggestions helps!
Thanks so, so much for your delightful show!