My freezer is chockers with an abundance of summer fruits! I squeezed in a bag of pears prepped for jamming today but still had more pears left over than we are able to eat in a week.  I just made Apple Crisp the other day so Pear Crisp was out of the question. Hmmm? What to do with these pears? Oh! A Cobbler! I know it is practically the same as a Crisp but just different enough to make it seem like I wasn’t making the same thing twice in a matter of days.

While my Pear Jam was jamming, I headed over to Canadian Living.com to search out a recipe for Pear Cobbler and was not disappointed. Time was of the essence as I was in the zone and the jam only needed to jam for another 50 minutes. This cobbler was quick and easy to throw together; my one remorse was that I didn’t put my baking dish on a cookie sheet….now I have to clean my oven…again!
Oh, and I love how Canadian Living introduced the recipe…”Harvest an orchardful of flavour with this old-fashioned cobbler.”

7 cups Pears, peeled and sliced
1/3 cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 Tablespoon Cornstarch
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
pinch of Epicure Apple Pie Spice
Biscuit Topping
1 cup Flour
1/4 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
pinch of Salt
1/4 Butter, cold and cut into cubes
3/4 cup Buttermilk

Preheat oven to 400F.
Lightly spray an 8″ Square Pyrex dish with vegetable oil spray.

In a large bowl, gently toss pears with brown sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice and Apple Pie Spice.
Turn out into prepared baking dish.
In a medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Using a pastry blender, or two knives, cut in butter until crumbly.
Pour in buttermilk and stir with fork to form a soft, sticky dough.
Drop dough in 9 evenly spaced mounds over the fruit.
Bake in 400F. for about 35 minutes or until bubbly and topping is light golden and no longer doughy underneath when lifted with spoon.

Serves 6