Skillet Apple Cobbler ‪#‎thebookclubcookbookCC

This month I have dutifully been reading The Killer Angels for the #thebookclubcookbookCC.  Not familiar with the  #thebookclubcookbookCC?  Well it's a group of 11 bloggers where each month we pick a book, to read or not is up to you, and then make a recipe either from The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp or something inspired by the book. If you are interested in joining see this post from Camilla, our leader or Ashley's invitation for February.

There is a giveaway at the bottom of this post for The Book Club Cook Book so keep reading. 

So back to The Killer Angels. This book is a classic, very much something my father would read. Being about the Civil War I wasn't sure if I was going to get into it or not.  I brought it with me on my trek to Texas and was a bit worried that it was my only entertainment on a 4 hour flight.  What if I didn't like it?  Well I had no need to worry.  I ended up really enjoying the story and different perspectives about the battle of Gettysburg.  

There was a lot of food talk in the book, mainly because they were tired and hungry after the battle and because their wasn't much food to go around.  I thought about roasting a chicken because there was a scene at the end where the smell of chicken was almost too much for one of the soldiers to bear.  He ended getting a few pieces.  Another food that made an appearance over and over again in the book, besides coffee and liquor, was cherries.  Too many cherries didn't go over so well for some of the soldiers and their bellies.

The recipe given for The Killer Soldiers in The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors  was a Apple Cherry Cobbler. I don't care for cherries so I opted for a more simple apple cobbler. I made it in a skillet and pictured being able to cook it over an open fire. 

Be sure to check out the other bloggers participating as well!

A Day in the Life on the Farm
Adventures in All Things Food
Cheese Curd In Paradise
Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Life on Food
Mostly Food and Crafts
The Pajama Chef
The Spiffy Cookie
Things I Make (for Dinner)
Tortillas and Honey
ZooeySuff

Skillet Apple Cobbler

by Emily Morris

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Keywords: saute bake dessert apple fall

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Ingredients (serves 2)

For the Filling;

• 2 Gala apples (about 12 ounces), peeled, cored and cut into 1/4-inch pieces (2 generous cups)
• 2 heaping tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

For the Cream Biscuits:

• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• Heaping 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• Pinch fine salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Instructions

For the Filling:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Toss the apples with 2 heaping tablespoons of the sugar, the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add the butter, and toss. Put into a 8 inch skillet. Tent each loosely with foil and bake until the apples are tender and the juice is bubbling, about 35 minutes. Remove the ramekins from the oven, remove the foil, give the apples barely a stir with a fork and press the top into the juices.

For the topping:

Whisk together the flour, the baking powder, salt and 1 teaspoon of the sugar in a small bowl. Quickly stir in the heavy cream, then work the dough with your fingers as if you were working butter into pie dough, to make moist, slightly flattened chunks of dough.

Top with dough. Sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon of the remaining sugar, and bake until the topping is browned and crisp, 12 to 15 minutes.

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Giveaway

This month Ashley at Cheese Curd in Paradise, this month's host, is giving away a copy of the book.* Enter to win a copy of the cookbook so you can join us in future months, if you wish! One of our lucky readers - US and Canada only! - can enter to win a copy ofThe Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp, courtesy of Tarcher-Penguin. Giveaway runs from February 1st till February 29th at 6 o'clock PM, Pacific time. Please see terms and conditions in the rafflecopter widget below. Many thanks to Tarcher Books. You may find Tarcher: on the web, on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Pinterest.

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