Berry Galette a la Julia

I've always wanted to make a galette. Blackberry season is almost over here, so I went and picked a few quarts after my run this morning. I found a few different galette dough recipes, but I was particularly intrigued by this one by Julia Childs.

Galette Dough

3 tablespoons sour cream

1/3 cup ice water

1 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup cornmeal

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

7 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (cut into 6 or 8 pieces)

*Stir the sour cream and ice water together. Set aside.

*Combine the flour, cornmeal, salt and sugar in a large bowl with a fork.
*Add cold butter pieces and combine with a pastry blender until the butter pieces are the size of bread crumbs to small peas.

*Add sour cream/water mixture 1 tablespoon at a time and toss with a fork to evenly distribute. *You'll end up with wet clumps of dough.

*Carefully combine into a ball without overworking.

*Divide ball in half and shape each half into a disc, wrapped in saran wrap. Refrigerate for at least two hours.

Berry Galette

1/2 Galette dough recipe

1 1/2 cups berries

1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp sugar

1 Tbsp butter

After the sour ceam/water was added, formed into a ball and divided in half.

Roll chilled dough out to about 11" (1/8" thick)

Carefully place dough onto a piece of parchment paper and place berries in the center, leaving 2 - 3 inches of the dough to fold toward the center.
Sprinkle the berries with 1 Tbsp sugar. Also place 1 Tbsp of butter (cut into small bits) over berries.

Fold the edges of dough toward the center, creating pleats.

Lightly brush the crust with water and sprinkle 1 tsp sugar over crust.

Bake 35 - 40 minutes or until golden at 400 degrees.
Eat!

Raspberry Cobbler

We have a lot of these in our freezer:

So I decided to bake some cobbler:

Jimmie requested a raspberry pie made with our frozen berries. I couldn't decide whether to call this a cobbler or a pie. I decided to make individuals with crust only on top (1/2 the crust of a pie, right?). I think, technically, a cobbler crust is "crumbled" on top, but whatever.

Raspberry Cobbler

5 - 6 cups raspberries

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup cornstarch

Whisk sugar and cornstarch together to mix thoroughly. Toss with berries.

Pour berry mixture into baking dishes and top with your favorite pie crust dough.

Cut a few vents in the crust and sprinkle with sugar before baking.

Bake at 400 degrees for 1 hour.

Good thing we also have some ice cream in the freezer to go with this dessert tomorrow!
I should not be up at midnight when we're "springing forward!"