One of my most treasured and deeply ingrained food memories is making Blackberry Cobbler with my grandmother. We would gather blackberries along the creek on their acreage and carry them to the house in buckets and bowls and later in the day she’d tuck them into a cobbler that I can still taste the crisp edges of when I close my eyes. I remember listening intently as she told me her secret — that you always, always use salted butter in the bottom of your baking dish because that saltiness tastes so good with the sweet. And she was right. While I suppose you could just add some salt yourself instead, this cobbler was heaven on earth, so while I don’t use salted butter anywhere else in baking, I follow her rule every single time I make cobbler. And you should too.
