Fresh Peach Cobbler

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 lbs peaches, peeled and cut into 1/4 inch slices
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup crisco or 3/4 cup other shortening
• 3 -4 tablespoons ice cold water
• 1/2 cup butter, cut into small pieces
• 3 teaspoons sugar

Recipe

• 1 combine peaches and 1 1/4 cups sugar in bowl.
• 2 let stand for at least 4 hours.
• 3 to make pastry: combine flour and salt in bowl.
• 4 cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• 5 add in enough ice-cold water until dough holds together.
• 6 gather into ball and divide in half.
• 7 refrigerate dough until needed or at least 1 hour.
• 8 preheat oven to 350-degrees f.
• 9 grease a baking dish (9x13-inch).
• 10 pour undrained peaches into baking dish and dot with 1 stick butter (that was cut into pieces).
• 11 roll 1 piece of dough out on floured board to a 1/8-inch thick rectangle.
• 12 cut into 11 x 1-inch strips.
• 13 arrange strips across peaches in one direction only, spacing them 1-inch apart.
• 14 sprinkle with 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar.
• 15 bake for 35 minutes or until pastry is beginning to brown.
• 16 while cobbler is baking, roll and cut remaining dough in strips (same as above).
• 17 after cobbler is out of oven, arrange strips on top of peaches to form lattice.
• 18 sprinkle with remaining sugar.
• 19 bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown.