Cherry Cobbler

On Friday afternoon, our delightful and entertaining friends, gifted us with a big bowl of cherries that they picked ripe from their own trees, and then pitted with some kind of gadget.   It's always a treat to get something from their wonderful organic garden.  One year they brought us pickling cucumbers and we made pickles.

  Anyway, the cherries were delicious!  In fact we couldn't believe how incredibly good these were.  I had to hurry up and get them into a pie before they were gone. Since I haven't made a fresh cherry pie in ages I turned to Fannie Farmer (page 95 in this cookbook) for the recipe I used.  In case you've ever wondered like I have, what the difference between a deep dish pie and a cobbler is, it's the crust.  The latter being more of a sweet biscuit type rather than a plain pie crust.  The filling itself is exactly the same, there's just more of it.  Neither have bottom crusts, which tend to get soggy with all that fruit so you serve this by scooping, rather than cutting wedges.  I opted to go with the cobbler crust here though because I find it's easier to handle on a hot day without having to chill it first.  I've sprinkled this one with a little sugar to counteract the tartness of the cherries. 

I won't torture you further with just how good this was...especially with that dollop of French vanilla ice cream.  oops...sorry, perhaps I've said too much.

Comments

[IslandMumma]

AAhh you went to far when you mentioned the french vanilla icecream it just happens to be my most fav ..nummy

[Linda]

LOL, now you've got me singing Billy Boy too! I love folk music, especially children's folk music. :)

[vegasandvenice]

Wow! Yum!

[Clarice]

Yummm, I just got 25 pds. of cherries. Now I know what to do with them !!!!!
Clarice

[Lauren]

I wish I could crawl through the screen.....

[jackie]

Yum! I made peach cobbler last night. You've got to love summer fruit and the yummy desserts you can make from them. That looks so good!

[beki]

My mouth is watering!!! It looks divine ;-)

[tinker]

Love Fannie Farmer - that's my own favorite cookbook - though I'm on strike from the kitchen right now (heehee). Though I might have to get up and bake in the middle of the night after seeing this (at least it's cooler then!) I do have a couple of pounds of cherries...Can I bake a cherry pie...

Yikes! Now you've got me humming it (which isn't easy with my mouth watering for that cherry cobbler!)

(We'll see if my TypePad thingummy actually works this time.)

I got a bunch of cherries but, lacking a pitting gizmo, was forced to simply eat them. Poor me.

But I did pick up some rhubarb at the farmer's market, and I just pulled a hot strawberry-rhubarb pie out of the oven. An ancient Farm Journal Pie Cookbook recipe rather than Fanny Farmer... I'm such a nonconformist.

[Robin Green Eye]

Oh you are killing me, I am having to restrain myself from licking the screen.

[Suzanne]

Yes! You've said too much!!!

No, seriously it seems just delicious! In Portugal its not a big tradition baking cherry pies, although we have great pastry! But that cherry pie... yum!

[madmommy]

Funny you would mention that song, as I heard a preacher talk about it on the radio while discussing marriage. He discovered that the "young thing" that wouldn't leave her mother had to be 82 years old according to the song lyrics! Of course, he wondered, how old then was her mother?

[Beth]

I love that song. My Grandmother used to sing it when we were little.

She also sung one about little birds in a tree singing to heaven.

both songs get stuck in my head from time to time out of nowhere.

[gracia]

So many wondrous things to see & find on your blog... but a cherry cobbler takes the cake!