Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2017
Sonker has spent too much time in the shadows. We wanted to give this Appalachian original its due.
Not quite a pie and not quite a cobbler, sonker is a juicy, fruit-filled deep-dish dessert rarely found outside Surry County, North Carolina. While toppings vary, a subset of sonker recipes dub themselves “lazy” sonkers, in which the fruit ...