1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 square)
2 cups flour
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 TBS baking powder
1-1/2 cups milk
1 or 2 quarts fruit
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Place butter in cake pan and melt in oven - don't let turn brown
3. Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and milk.
4. Stir dry ingredients into pan with melted butter; Spread in cake pan.
5. Put fruit over batter
6. Bake for 1 hour* and serve to hungry, starved, ugly husband.
*See bake time in recipe below for more info... start checking for doneness after 30 minutes!!!
**The above recipe was hand-written on a legal-sized sheet of yellow lined paper by my dad, Arvel Hatch Hunter... year unknown. It has faded almost to the point of non existence now, so I wanted to write it down as written. It was found by me, Marsha Hunter Paletsas, on June 7, 2022 while we were packing up our bookshelves in preparation to move from our house in Rialto, CA to our new house in Beaumont, CA. (We have been in the Rialto house for 33 years!)
It must have fallen out of one of my dad's books that we had on our shelves!
Not sure how accurate his recipe is (I'll have to try it soon!!), but I found a recipe very similar to his that I'm including here called Never-fail Fruit Cobbler, that I'll use if the original doesn't turn out quite right!
The directions in step 6 are pure ARVEL H. HUNTER, and I love it!!
I miss my dad who passed away on June 29, 2014 at the age of 92. He always made everyone smile!
EASY FRUIT COBBLER (Similar to the above)
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter (one stick)
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup milk
- 15 oz can fruit in light syrup or juice (approximately 12 oz of any other fruit, do not drain.)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place butter into 9 X 9 pan and place pan into oven as it preheats. This melts the butter and lubes up the pan to prevent the cobbler from sticking.
- Mix together the flour, sugar, and milk.
- Once the butter is melted, and the oven preheated, pour the flour/sugar/milk mixture into the pan.
- Add the can of undrained fruit, pie filling, or other fruit on top of the mixture.
- Add extra sugar or cinnamon-sugar to the top if desired and place into oven.
- Bake approximately 30 to 45 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the biscuit part is cook through. *Baking time will depend on the fruit used and if it is frozen or not. Start checking after 30 minutes.
