Blueberry Blackberry Buckle

Rose's amazing Blueberry Buckle

is such a lovely dessert.

I've wondered what a Buckle was 

for quite a while.

This is the optional 

blueberry blackberry

version. 

Unbeknownst to me

my grandmother made them

for years.

She gave the recipe to my mother

who started making them.

My mother gave the recipe to

all her friends

who started making them.

My mom's been gone for fourteen

years 

and whenever I run into one of these ladies,

they invariably say

"I still make your mother's fruit cobbler."

I smile and nod because 

I never cared for it.

It wasn't a proper cobbler with

inch thick pie crust

which is what I longed for

as a child.

Also to live on a farm

with a 

red barn.

So now I have to dig out the

"cobbler" recipe

and compare ingredients.

Because while I didn't care

for that one

I absolutely love this one.

Rose's never fail

combination

of adding lemon zest

and juice

with fruit

works every time.

I, however, do not.

Once again the berries didn't thicken.

My beautiful  

aromatic buckle

was soup.

I can't be trusted with cornstarch.

I pulled off the cake and

used extreme willpower

not to devour it,

threw the 

juice in a pan

and reheated it to thicken.

Did you know entire

studies are written

and papers published

on this?

Neither did I.

Thickened berries cooled,

back in the pan

topped with crust

and no one is the wiser.

Except for my husband

who ate

a bowl of 

Berry Buckle Soup

and declared it

delicious!

~

The Baking Bible

by

Rose Levy Beranbaum