Yields
6-8
Ingredients
6 cups blackberries
1 cup sugar
1 tbs quick-cooking tapioca
1 tbs butter, cut
1.5 cups flour
¾ cup sugar
2.5 teaspoons baking powder
⅓ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter, cut into pieces
⅓ cup buttermilk
2 tablespoon whipping cream
2.5 tablespoons sugar
Sweetened whipped cream
Vanilla ice cream
Nutritional information
No nutrition information available
Instructions
Combine berries, sugar, and tapioca in a medium bowl; let stand 15 minutes or until tapioca softens. Spoon berry mixture into a buttered 11- x 7-inch baking dish, and dot with 1 tablespoon butter. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes or until berries are hot.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Cut ½ cup butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until crumbly; add buttermilk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Gather dough into a ball. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 5 or 6 times. Pat or roll dough into an 11- x 7-inch rectangle.
Carefully place pastry over hot berries. Brush top of pastry with whipping cream, and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 400° for 15 to 20 minutes or until top is lightly browned. Serve with sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired.
