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Cobbler recipes

All are adapted (with some changes) from The New Best Recipe from the Editors of Cook’s Illustrated, ISBN-13 978-0-936184-74-6.
Tart Cherry Cobbler

Cobbler:

6 cans Montmorency sour cherries
1 cup demerara sugar
1-3 cinnamon sticks
2 cups dry red wine (preferably chianti)
3-6 Tbls corn starch
small amount of cold water
1/4 tspn almond extract

Topping:

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup whole grains – 1-minute oatmeal, [...]

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This post is about Caroline Davies’ article “Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser“, published in The Observer by guardian.co.uk on June 29, 2008 [1]. I stumbled across the article after stumbling across posts about it on a couple of other blogs [2][3] (further information at end of this post).
To briefly summarize the article in guardian.co.uk [...]

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