Homestyle Peach Cobbler

oh my how I love me some cobbler.   Apple, blackberry, peach, doesn't matter to me!  It’s all delicious!  And this recipe is so versatile and easy it works with them ALL!!!

This recipe is going to look hard, but it really isn’t.  It will take only about an hour from ingredients to mouth and 40 of that is in the oven, so even the PREP is super easy!  I'm going to break it up into steps for you, so you can either use FRESH fruit or canned.

For ingredients you are going to need peaches.  If using fresh – you will need to start at the FILLING section.  Fresh are my FAVORITE.  If you are using canned or frozen in syrup – skip to the BATTER section.

You will also need:
All purpose flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, water, sugar, nutmeg, salt, oil, milk, bisquick, and some butter for your pan.

You need to start by pitting and slicing your peaches.  You do NOT have to peel them.  They are super easy to pit.  I just cut around them to cut in half from top to bottom.  Split it open in Half, remove the pit and then slice.

omgosh.  Can’t you just smell that. *sigh*  Nature at her finest right there.  Sweet nectar to the tongue, soft velvet to the touch, and pharmaceutical miracle drug to the body.

Toss your slices into a sauce pan.

 

To the slices, add:

• 1/4 cup water
• 1 1/2 cups sugar

Stir constantly on HIGH until it starts to boil and then lower this down to about a quarter under medium.  You want a good simmer going. This will soften your peaches, and begin to make the “syrup’.

While this is simmering, go ahead and butter up your pan.

*the easiest, non-messiest, way to do this for me – is to dip a papertowel into the bowl of butter and then smear THAT all over the pan.  No butter on the hands!!!!!!! whoot!

Go ahead and preheat your oven now to 400 degrees (f)

and then we are going to mix up the rest of the ingredients for the syrup.  In a small bowl mix together

• 3 tablespoons ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
• 1/4 cup sugar (+ some.  My cups are always HEAPING)
• pinch of salt
• pinch of cinnamon (more like a palm full)
• pinch of all spice
• pinch of nutmeg

and then mix this up real good.

Once your fruit has started to soften, add the dry ingredients we just mixed up to the pan.  Stir it up very good!  And let it simmer while stirring for a couple of minutes.  2-4 minutes max.  This will thicken up to a “pie filing” glaze type consistency.   You know those bags of fruit in glaze you can buy at WalMart for pies.  It will be like that.

Do NOT let it get TOO thick.  You will think it’s too runny and be tempted to add more flour. DONT.  You need it kind of juicy/runny so the juice can soak up into the cobbler batter and make it all peachy too!  When your done stirring it dump it all in your baking pan.

mmm.mmm..mmmmm…  I could just stick my whole face in there.   YUMMY!

FOR THE BATTER:

In a bowl combine:

• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup Bisquick

Dry ingredients first…

then the liquids. Just stir it up real good.  And you know what!?  I few lumps is OK!!!!!!!!

Its going to be kind of thin.  Thinner than pancake batter.  Kind of like crepe batter I guess.  Thats ok though, your going to pour it all over your peaches.  like below.  Dont stir it on or spread it on or anything.  Just pour it on.  It will sink in a little and that is WONDERFUL because that will let it soak up some of that peach juice as it bakes, and get the peach flavor all in the batter!!!!!!

Bake that yumminess in the oven at 400 degrees (f) for about 40 minutes (until golden brown)
  

I tell you what.  If Heaven has a flavor… I’m pretty sure THIS is it.

Serve warm.  Great topped with icecream or whipped topping… or just by itself!

NOTE:
If you use apples instead of peaches – in that first bit up there…  substitute about 1/2 cup of BROWN sugar for some of that white sugar.  OMGosh, you will be thanking me for it.  I promise.  *wink*

Hope you likey!
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