Sour Cherry Cobbler

Name: Sour Cherry Cobbler
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (10 ounces; 283 grams); 6 tablespoons, granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter (cold), cut into 1/2-inch cubes; 2 tablespoons, granulated sugar for sprinkling; 1 cup, buttermilk; 4 , (24-ounce) jars Morello cherries, drained (about 8 cups drained cherries), 2 cups juice reserved; 3/4 - 1 cup, granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch, plus one teaspoon cornstarch; pinch, table salt; 1 cup, dry red wine; 1 , cinnamon stick (3-inch); 1/4 teaspoon, almond extract

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2001, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

Most cherry cobblers are no more than canned pie filling topped with heavy biscuits. We wanted fresh fruit flavor paired with a tender biscuit topping.

SERVES12

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most cherry cobbler recipes just don't taste like cherries (because the cherries come from a can and are precooked), and the biscuit topping is often undercooked. We wanted our cherry cobbler recipe to be different, so we selected jarred Mo...

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