A cobbler is a dessert prepared in a deep dish, with a thick crust and a filling made with one or more kinds of fruit. There are many variations on the traditional cobbler, including Brown Betty, Bird's Nest Pudding, Crumbles, Pandowdy and Buckles. You can find a good blueberry cobbler mix at your local grocery store, and cobblers are simple to make at home because their delicious flavor comes primarily from luscious seasonal fruits and berries, rather than fancy crusts, frostings or complex pastry creations. The different names refer to the different crusts, shapes, and cooking methods. For example, crisps and crumbles have a crust similar to a biscuit. Slumps and grunts are shaped like dumplings, with an internal consistency more like a pudding. Buckles and crumbles are more like a cake with blueberries added to the batter. The pandowdy is cooked in a deep dish and has a biscuit-like crust that is broken into pieces and sunk into the pie in order to allow the various fruits to come to the top. While pies, which are a more ancient relative of cobbler, date from the Roman Empire, the cobbler and its different varieties was created by colonists to America to utilize local resources, and it also reminded them of some of their favorite desserts from England, like pudding. Cobbler used to be considered a main dish in American households during the 1800s. It was many years later when cobbler was mainly eaten as a post-dinner snack. Unlike here in the United States, in the United Kingdom "cobbler" is associated with meat and veggies. However, there are many varieties and flavors available, just like we have different varieties ranging from blueberry cobbler mix to peach and cherry. In American the most commonly used contents for stuffing are fruits including apples, cherries, blueberries and peaches. There are many alternative variations to standard recipes for this type of dessert, and many use other fruits as substitutes. If you search online or look through cookbooks you will be able to find many of these. As with many other foods, in the modern era preparation has been simplified even further by the commercial production and sale of pre-made mixes and packages. For example, wonderful blueberry cobbler mix is widely available and sold under various brand names, including the popular Southern brand, Gullah Gourmet.
|
|
|
|
|
About The Author, Rex Freiberger |
Blueberry cobbler is one of America's favorite desserts (http://www.gullahgourmet.com/desserts). Other American favorites are peach, apple, blackberry, and cherry cobblers. During America's colonization cobbler was served as a main dish, however, as more and more resources became available, people started considering it more of a dessert. Preparation is simple, especially with the availability of pre-packaged mixes like blueberry cobbler mix (http://www.gullahgourmet. |
|
|
|
|
|
|