Our Favorite Peach Cobbler

Total Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup cold water, plus
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 5 cups sliced fresh peaches (about 10 medium)
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Recipe

• 1 make cobbler pastry first by combining flour and salt.
• 2 using a pastry blender cut in shortening until mixture resemble coarse meal.
• 3 sprinkle water over flour mixture,and stir with a fork until the ingredients are moistened.
• 4 then form dough into a ball and chill.
• 5 roll out chilled dough on a floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness.
• 6 cut into 1 inch strips and save enough strips to make a lattice top. i usually save ten or more strips.
• 7 place the remaining strips on a baking sheet and bake at 450* for 10 minutes or you can leave them uncooked like i do.
• 8 to make the peach filling combine peaches, water and butter in a medium size pan.
• 9 bring this mixture to a boil and cook over low heat until peaches are soft.
• 10 after the peaches are soft add 1 1/2 cups sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt .
• 11 cook over low heat, stirring gently until the sugar has dissolved and the peach mixture has thicken.
• 12 put half of the peach mixture in a lightly greased 12x8x2 baking dish.
• 13 put the cooked or uncooked pastry stips on top of peach mixture.
• 14 spoon the rest of the peach mixture over the pastry strips in the baking dish.
• 15 take the remaining pastry strips and make a lattice topping over the top layer of peaches.
• 16 sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar over lattice top.
• 17 bake for 35 to 40 minutes at 375*.