Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler
- 2 23 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, chiled and cut into pieces
- 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
- 6 -8 tablespoons ice water
- 8 cups fresh peaches, Sliced
- 2 cups sugar
- 14 cup flour
- 12 teaspoon cinnamon
- 12 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 13 cup up butter
- Mix flour, sugar and salt in large mixing bowl.
- Add butter and shortening.
- Using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut butter and shortening into flour until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Drizzle 6 tablespoons ice water over mixture.
- Kneed with your handss just until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry.
- Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk.
- Wrap in plastic; chill until dough is firm enough to roll out, about 30 minutes.
- Roll out dough on lightly floured work surface as for a pie, but cut it into an 8-inch square and set aside.
- Save remaining dough and set it aside also.
- Preheat oven to 475F
- Combine the peaches, sugar, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg in a Dutch oven.
- Allow to sit until sugar is dissolved and a syrup forms.
- Over medium heat, bring the peach mixture to a boil, then reduce heat to low and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add butter; stir in melted butter.
- Spoon half the peach mixture into a lightly buttered 8-inch square Pyrex dish.
- Cover with the pastry square.
- Bake for 12 to 14 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- Spoon the remaining peach mixture over the baked pastry.
- Roll out the remaining pastry, and cut into strips about an inch wide.
- Arrange strips in a loose lattice weave over the peach mixture.
- Bake an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until browned.
flour, sugar, salt, unsalted butter, vegetable shortening, water, fresh peaches, sugar, flour, cinnamon, ground nutmeg, butter
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/old-fashioned-peach-cobbler-365910 (may not work)