This recipe is one of the main reasons why I am keeping this little dessert diary: to help me remember things that I make! Last week, I had a bunch of peaches and cherries that I wanted to use up quickly, and I recalled making a sort of cobbler-ish dessert a few years back. I couldn't remember where I got the recipe or even what it was called, and after wracking my brain and doing some googling, I finally found this blueberry slump recipe, from Saveur (from 4 years ago!). I swapped the peaches and cherries for the blueberries - I think pretty much any fruit or combination of fruits could work great here - and threw it together,
LUCKILY, I remembered from the last time I made this, that the blueberry juices leaked all over my oven, so I had the foresight to put a cookie sheet under my pan. The cherry-peach juices leaked everywhere. I might be using a slightly smaller cast iron pan than is called for in the recipe, because this made a lot of dough. Too much dough. It basically covered all of the fruit in the pan - it did not look like drops of dough-y biscuits, like the photo from Saveur - and then I think I cooked it for a few minutes too long because it was not an airy biscuit, even straight out of the oven.
All that said, this is a really easy, but impressive, dish, especially if you use the right fruit-to-dough ratio. Next time I make this I am going to cut the dough amount in half.
