Plum Cobbler

Ingredients

• quart flour
• four tablespoons melted lard
• half teaspoon salt
• two teaspoons baking powder
• three pints canned damson plums
• one coffee-cup sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, lard, salt, and baking powder as for biscuit, roll thin, and line a pudding dish.

2. 2

   Mix flour and sugar together, sprinkle over crust, pour in plums, sprinkle with sugar, wet edges with flour and water, put on upper crust, press edges, make two openings, and bake in a quick oven for half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 428. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

quart flour, four tablespoons melted lard, half teaspoon salt, two teaspoons baking powder ; mix as for bis- cuit, with either sweet milk or water, roU tnin, and line a pudding dish, about two inches deep, or dripping-pan, nine by|eighteen inches ; mix three tablespoons flour and two of sugar together, and sprinkle over crust; then pour in three pints canned damson plums, and sprinkle over them one coffee-cup sugar ; wet edges with a little flour and water mixed, put on upper crust, press edges together, make two openings by cutting two incisions at right angles an inch in length, and bake in quick oven half an hour. Any kind of fresh or canned fruit, can be used same way, adding with fresh fruit, cold water to half fill the dish, after fruit is put in. A Quaker Paste may be used, rolling twice as thick as for ordinary pies, and some prefer to use only an upper crust, and for Peach Coooler pare and halve freestones, but only pare and gash clines, leaving in tne stones, and sweeten if necessary. For Apple Coooler^ pare and ouarter moderately tart apples and finish as above. For Berry Coholer^ line the deep dish with a Graham Paste, rolled as above, nil with any berries, sweeten, cover with crust and bake. Some prick upper crust as well as cut the slits as in Plum Cobbler

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