Recipe for "quick-cobbler"

NAME

     QUICK-COBBLER - An extremely quick cherry cobbler dessert
     This recipe came from a PTA recipe collection from my Aunt's
     school  a number of years ago. It's not a true, classic cob-
     bler, but I think it's better. My favorite dessert!

INGREDIENTS (serves 6)

     50 g      butter (or margarine, if you must)
     100 g     sugar
     150 ml    milk
     100 g     flour
     10 ml     baking powder
     400 g     tart cherries (one normal U.S. can)
     20 g      sugar to sweeten and thicken (use less or more  as
               needed)

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 175 deg. C.
          (2)  Drain cherries, saving liquid.
          (3)  Cream butter and sugar together.
          (4)  Alternately   add   in   milk   and   sifted   dry
               ingredients.
          (5)  Pour into a buttered and floured casserole dish.
          (6)  Top evenly with cherries. Sprinkle  sugar  on  top
               and cover with saved liquid/juice.
          (7)  Bake 45-50 minutes.

NOTES

     The batter will expand and surround the cherries so  they're
     evenly  mixed throughout the cobbler. The juice will congeal
     to fruity and puddinglike. Serve  warm  topped  with  cream,
     milk  or  ice  cream.  (I prefer milk). If any is left, it's
     good cold, too.
     As the name implies, this is a very quick  recipe  to  make.
     Depending  on  how  soft  the  butter  is  to start with, or
     whether or if you use a food  processor  (I  don't,  but  it
     should work) this recipe takes only 5 to 10 minutes to mix.
     You can use any unsweetened canned fruit  for  this  recipe.
     You  can  also use frozen fruit, by thawing it before adding
     to the pan. Berries or  peaches  are  standard  substitutes.
     Yesterday  I  made one with crushed pineapple. I used brown,
     rather than white sugar atop the fruit. It tasted very  much
     like pineapple upside down cake (though the appearance was a
     bit different).

RATING

     Difficulty: easy, I've been making this since I was about  8
     or  9.   Time:  5  minutes  preparation, 45 minutes cooking.
     Precision: approximate measurement OK.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Suzanne Barnett-Scott
     Calcomp/Sanders Display Products, Scottsdale, Arizona
     suze@terak.UUCP