Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie … check this nice dessert: Damson cobbler
How to Make Damson cobbler
Preparation time:
less than 30 mins
Cooking time:
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves:
Serves 6-8
Dietary:
Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 900g/2lb damsons
- 100g/4oz caster sugar
For the cobbler topping
- 225g/8oz self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 75g/3oz chilled butter
- 100g/4oz caster sugar
- a pinch of salt
- 1 medium egg
- 100ml/4fl oz buttermilk
- 15g/1/2oz flaked almonds
Method
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Spread the damsons over the base of a 2 litre/3½ pint shallow ovenproof dish and sprinkle with the caster sugar. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
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Sift the flour, baking powder, the 100g/4oz of caster sugar and a pinch of salt into a bowl or a food processor, add the butter and work together until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
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Break the egg into the buttermilk and beat together well. Add to the dry ingredients and mix together lightly into a soft, sticky dough. Drop walnut-sized spoonfuls of the mixture over the top of the damsons, leaving a little space between each one, then sprinkle with the flaked almonds and the remaining 1 tbsp of sugar.
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Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes until golden and bubbling, covering it loosely with a sheet of foil if it is browning a little too quickly. It is done when a skewer, pushed into the middle of the cobbler topping, comes away clean. Leave to cool briefly before serving with some custard, double cream or crème fraîche.
