Expert: Cookie Lady - 12/9/2003

Question
Please tell me you have this book, I am desperate to obtain a copy of a recipe from Betty Crocker's 1961 3rd edition picture cook book.
Its a recipe for black berry cobbler. I have gotten close but none are the same as that 1961 recipe. please help

Answer
Stephanie, the recipe below is from a 1956 Betty Crocker cookbook. Hope it is the recipe you are looking for.

yields one 9" X 9" cobbler

Taken from Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book 2nd edition, 1956

Peaches, sour cherries, BLACKBERRIES, or blueberries can so be used.

Ingredients:
4 cups blackberries
1/4 cu. sugar and 1 T. tapioca
1/3 cu. butter or margarine
1/2 cu. sugar
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
3/4 cu. flour
2 t. baking powder 1/3 cu. dried milk
1/2 t. salt


Method:

Preheat oven to 350¡ÆF.

Mix together 1/4 c. sugar and tapioca.

Cream together the butter and 1/2 c. sugar. Beat in egg.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, dried milk and salt.

Add flour mix to sugar and butter along with about 3 Tbs. water.  Batter should be stiff enough to hold its shape.  

Place Blackberries in a 9" baking dish and sprinkle with the sugar and tapioca.

Drop by tablespoonfuls onto fruit.  Keep batter out of the center and away from the edges of the pan.

Bake @ 350¡ÆF  for  1 hour or until the cake is done.

First copy did not print well, so sending again. Sorry!