Recipe - Blackberry And Nectarine Cobbler

1/3 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Cornstarch
1 lg Nectarine; cut into 1/2inch
; pieces (about 1
; cup)
1 cup Blackberries; picked over
One half cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
2 One half tablespoon Cold unsalted butter; cut
into bits
One fourth cup Milk
2 tablespoon Sliced almonds

Preheat oven to 400F.

In a bowl stir together sugar and cornstarch. Add fruit and combine
well.

In another bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and add
butter. Blend mixture until it resembles coarse meal and stir in milk,
stirring until dough is just combined.

In a buttered 8inchsquare baking dish spread fruit mixture and drop
dough onto it in 4 mounds.

Sprinkle almonds over cobbler and bake in middle of oven 20 minutes,
or until top is golden.

Serves 2.

Gourmet August 1994

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