AT YOUR REQUEST - BLACKBERRY COBBLER

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Crisco
1/2 tsp. salt
6 tablespoons ice water

Mix flour and salt together. Cut shortening into flour mixture with a pastry blender (a fork will do if you don't have a pastry blender but do not use your hands to mix it) until the mixture looks like pea-sized lumps. Add ice water and work into mixture until you can roll into a ball. Place in refrigerator for a few minutes.

2 1/2 - 3 cups fresh blackberries
1 stick butter
2 cups sugar

Take pastry out of fridge, roll out on floured board until it is very thin and cut into 2 inch wide strips. Lay some strips on bottom of oven-safe pan (I use a round aluminum pan about 5 or 6 inches deep)put a layer of blackberries, then a layer of sugar, then pats of butter and repeat layers until all ingredients are used ending with a layer of pastry strips. Bake at 350 about 45 minutes or until pastry is brown on top.

NOTE: All of my mother's recipes which were handed down to me went something like this: "Add berries, put layers of sugar and butter on that until it looks like it has the right consistency . . ." She rarely ever measured anything so coming up with exact amounts of ingredients is challenging to say the least.

Hope this works for you.