Auberge Mendocino Seaside Inn and Cottages

Ingredients for the Topping/Filling
3 cups blackberries or boysenberries
(thaw if using frozen berries)
grated rind of one lemon
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)

Directions, Filling:
Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and soda.

Cut into it the butter and cream cheese using a pastry blender or two knives, until the mixture resembles very coarse meal.

Combine the egg, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture. This will make a sticky dough. Put into a greased 9" springform pan and pat to shape so that sides come up above bottom about one inch to form a shallow well for the topping to fill (this keeps the berries from touching the sides of the pan where they would burn and stick).

Directions, Topping:
Combine flour, sugar and lemon rind. Cut in butter or crumble with your fingers until incorporated but still in crumb form.

Mix gently with berries, then pour into unbaked dough.

Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately one hour.

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