Michelle Obama Loves Her Cobbler Recipe
This Winter Make an Apple Dessert Based on a First Lady's Tradition
Jan 12, 2009
It’s already apparent that new First Lady Michelle Obama will run the White House like a home. Her style is everyday people. She values family, friends and traditions and she wants her daughters, Malia and Sasha to live as normal a life as possible, under the circumstances.
Good, comforting food is as natural a part of that plan as is pairing Barack Oabama with basketball for relaxation time. Michelle Obama’s Apple Cobbler recipe is available from the New York Sun. Here, with a few alterations tested on a hungry family of four, is an interpretation.
Apple Cobbler Like First Lady Michelle Obama Likes to Make
Ingredients - the innards:
- 8 Granny Smith apples, sliced and peeled *(Macs with peels on work well)
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon (*more if you really like cinnamon)
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg (*decrease this if using fresh nutmeg)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (*may be left out)
- 1/4 cup flour
1. Mix the filling ingredients together, cover them and and let marinate in the refrigerator for the afternoon or overnight so the flavors go all the way through the apples.
On the Outside - the crust:
- 3 sheets refrigerated piecrust
- 1 stick of butter
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour the bottom of a large baking dish. Roll out the pie crust sheets real thin. As thin as possible, says Mrs. Obama. Layer the bottom of the pan with 1-1/2 of the pie crusts and prick a few holes in it. Pour the apples with the liquid into the pie pan. Dot 3/4 of a stick of butter around the apples. Use the final 1 1/2 piecrusts to cover the apple mixture entirely (let the pie crust overlap the pan).
- Pinch the edges of the dough around the sides of the pan so the mixture is completely covered.
- Melt final 1/4 stick of butter and brush all over top of crust. *(It didn’t seem to require the entire stick).
- Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees. Bake at 300 for up to 3 hours. Start looking at the cobbler after two and a half hours so it doesn't burn. *(It took the test batch only two and a half hours on a winter day, at Midwestern altitude and low humidity.)
It’s obvious that Mrs. Obama likes to cook. She told a recent TV audience that she usually cooks Thanksgiving dinner for upwards of 20 people, and she was seen preparing a favorite shrimp dish with Food Channel guru Paula Deen. She isn’t panning a blitz through the White House kitchen anytime soon, according to a press release from the Obama transition team in which Michelle Obama said she looks forward to working with White House Chef Cristeta Comerford for many years to come.
Suite101 recipe for Baked Acorn Squash with Pineapple and Parmesan is a perfect winter dish to precede this apple treat.
