1 pint of flour

1 level tablespoonful of butter

2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder

2/3 cupful of milk

Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl, rub in the butter and add the milk. Roll out into a thick crust, and with one-half of this cover the bottom of a baking dish; sprinkle over this two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Have ready, peeled and stoned, twelve very ripe peaches; put them on top of the crust, squeeze over the juice of a lemon and six tablespoonfuls of sugar, and run the dish in a quick oven; bake a half hour. While this is baking, roll the remaining dough just to fit the top of the dish, brush with milk, and bake it in a baking pan. When the cobbler is done, put the "lid" 0n top, and send it to the table with a pitcher of cream.

Apples and strawberries may be substituted for peaches,