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Ingredients

• 700 g mixed berries, fresh or frozen
• 100 g sugar, for the fruit
• 2 tbsp Cornflour (cornstarch)
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 190 g plain flour
• 2 tbsp sugar, for the topping
• 2 tsp Baking powder
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 85 g Butter, cold, cubed
• 160 ml Buttermilk, cold
• 1 tbsp demerara sugar
• vanilla ice cream, to serve (optional)

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190°C (170°C fan, 375°F). Toss the berries with the sugar, cornflour and lemon juice in a 23 cm baking dish.
2. For the topping, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it looks like coarse crumbs with a few pea-sized pieces.
3. Pour in the buttermilk and stir with a fork until just combined into a shaggy dough. Don't overmix.
4. Drop rough spoonfuls of dough over the fruit, leaving gaps for the juices to bubble through. Sprinkle with demerara sugar.
5. Bake for 30–35 min, until the topping is deep golden and cooked through and the fruit is bubbling thickly at the edges.
6. Cool for 10 min so the juices thicken, then serve warm with ice cream.

Tips

• If using frozen berries, don't thaw them; add 5–10 min to the baking time.
• No buttermilk? Stir 2 tsp lemon juice into 160 ml milk and leave for 5 min.

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