This sounds like a good old fashioned recipe for the cobbler, except, cobblers do not have a bottom crust, pies do. I will just omit the bottom crust :) I bet it makes a great blackberry pie..

I was raised in eastern Tennessee and the cobblers always have two crusts, like fruit pies, and was made in a square pan. I think the easier batter recipes became popular in the 80's. That's when I first heard of them.