Texas Dewberry Cobbler
There's nothing more sweet than fresh picked wild blackberries, also known as dewberries, and at our farm, we have plenty. The dewberry vines cover fence-lines, cut-banks, and swaths of pasture, and their white flowers bloom in late March/early April. When the rains are good, by mid-May the brambles and vines will abound with ripe, plump, and sometimes enormous dewberries. As a child, I would spend the whole day picking them, loading bucket upon bucket with berries and eating them as I went, right off the vine. My hands would be stained purple from the juice by sundown and my fingers pricked all over by their thorns.Traditionally, when we have a crop of dewberries, we always make this cobbler. It's about as simple as can be, but oh so delicious. And there's something about knowing we picked the berries ourselves that makes it so much better. But of course, if you don't have access to fresh handpicked dewberries, regular blackberries are just fine.
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Texas Dewberry Cobbler
There's nothing more sweet than fresh picked wild blackberries, also known as dewberries, and at our farm, we have plenty. The dewberry vines cover fence-lines, cut-banks, and swaths of pasture, and their white flowers bloom in late March/early April. When the rains are good, by mid-May the brambles and vines will abound with ripe, plump, and sometimes enormous dewberries. As a child, I would spend the whole day picking them, loading bucket upon bucket with berries and eating them as I went, right off the vine. My hands would be stained purple from the juice by sundown and my fingers pricked all over by their thorns.Traditionally, when we have a crop of dewberries, we always make this cobbler. It's about as simple as can be, but oh so delicious. And there's something about knowing we picked the berries ourselves that makes it so much better. But of course, if you don't have access to fresh handpicked dewberries, regular blackberries are just fine.
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Servings: 10 people
Calories: 475 kcal
Net Carbs: 59 g
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups (267 g) sugar
- 1/2 cup (62 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (113 g) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 tsp (2 tsp) pure vanilla extract
- 4 1/2 cups (648 g) fresh dewberries or blackberries
- 3 (3) refrigerated pie crusts
- 1 Tbsp (1 Tbsp) sugar
- vanilla ice cream, to serve
Instructions
- Butter an 11 x 7 inch baking dish. Preheat the oven to 425°F.
- Stir together the sugar, flour, butter, and vanilla in a large bowl. Fold the blackberries into the mixture until they are mixed in evenly, being careful not to crush them. Spoon the blackberries into the baking dish.
- Cut the pie dough into long strips and arrange them in a lattice (over-under) design across the top of the fruit mixture. This step is often much easier and faster if you have two people doing it. Sprinkle the 1 Tbsp sugar evenly over the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until the crust is golden and the center is bubbly.
- Serve hot with vanilla ice cream.
Nutrition
Calories: 475kcalFat: 23gSodium: 211mgNet Carbs: 59gSaturated Fat: 10gPotassium: 161mgCarbohydrates: 64gVitamin A: 422IUFiber: 5gVitamin C: 14mgSugar: 31gCalcium: 31mgProtein: 5gCholesterol: 24mgIron: 2mg
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3 Comments
Dr. Bob
I made this dish for the teachers at H.T. Jones
They loved it. I also made a dish for them called peach surprise. Made from the campus Peach tree. Being 87 years old and with recipes passed down by my mother and grandmother I found it quite easy
Thanks for bringing memories to this old man
Erin Hightower
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! It brings back good memories for me too.
Colleen
This is exactly how we made dewberry cobbler when I was a kid. So many hot TX days spent picking dewberries…always worth it for a bowl of hot cobbler with Blue Bell homemade vanilla! Truly one of my favorite memories. I still live in TX and just a few days ago found a nice little patch loaded up with dewberries just a short drive from work so now that I picked enough I’m gonna make this cobbler on Saturday…except served with HEB 1905 Vanilla Ice cream! Thanks for sharing!