Spiced Autumn Fruit Cobbler

Fruit Filling

• ½ orange, thin peelings of skin only
• 100 g vanilla sugar
• 400 g cooking apples (e.g. Bramley) peeled, cored, cut in pieces (2 cm)
• 400 g pears, peeled, cored, cut in pieces (4 cm)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 cloves
• 2 star anise
• 200 g fresh blackberries

Topping

• 35 g crystallised ginger, diced
• 170 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
• 75 g granulated sugar
• ¾ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp coarse sea salt
• 80 g unsalted butter, diced, plus extra for greasing
• 60 g buttermilk, plus extra for brushing
• 1 Tbsp Demerara sugar, for sprinkling