Cobbler

I found a nice recipe for fruit cobbler in the Joy of Cooking. Three cups peeled, diced fruit, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 Tbs flour combined in a sauce pan. Heat until bubbling.

Meanwhile make a biscuit dough:
sift together 1 cup flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsb salt
Cut in 3 Tbs butter,
Then 3/8 cup milk.
Need 8-10 times on lightly floured surface.

Pour fruit into 8x8 caserole, top with hunks of biscuit dough. Dot with 2 Tbs butter. Sprinkle 1 Tbs sugar all over. Dust with some salsa fina (ginger, cinnamon, grains of paradise, galangal).

Bake at 400º for 1/2 hour.
Serve with a goodly amount of vanilla ice cream.

For the fruit in this case I used two pears, two apples, and seven dried figs.