Recipe - Dried-Fruit Cobbler With Molasses Biscuits

1 One half cup Water
1 cup Orange juice
1/3 cup Orange marmalade
16 ounce Mixed dried fruit, (2 bags)
coarsely chopped
1 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon Baking soda
1 ds Ground cloves
1/3 cup Chilled stick margarine, cut
into small pieces
2 tablespoon Skim milk
2 tablespoon Molasses
1 tablespoon Orange marmalade
2 teaspoon Water

Combine the first 4 ingredients in a 2quart baking dish; stir well. Bake
at
400 degrees for 30 minutes.

Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and cloves in a bowl;
cut in margarine with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture
resembles coarse meal.

Combine milk and molasses, and add to the flour mixture, stirring just
until the dry ingredients are moistened.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 5 or 6 times.
Roll dough to 1/2inch thickness, and cut with a 2inch biscuit cutter into
10 biscuits. Remove the fruit mixture from oven, and arrange biscuits on
top of hot fruit mixture. Bake an additional 20 minutes or until the
biscuits are golden.

Combine 1 tablespoon marmalade and 2 teaspoons water in a bowl; brush over
biscuits. Yield: 10 servings (serving size: One half cup fruit mixture and 1
biscuit).

Per serving: 261 Calories; 7g Fat (22% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 51g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 146mg Sodium

Serving Ideas : Serve warm.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Sept. 1995, page 137

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #403 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.