Lazy Peach Sonker

Name: Lazy Peach Sonker
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 1/2 pounds, peaches, peeled, halved, pitted, and cut into 1/2-inch-thick wedges, or 2 pounds frozen sliced peaches; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; , Salt; 1/4 cup, water; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch; 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 cup, whole milk; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and hot; 1/4 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

Sonker has spent too much time in the shadows. We wanted to give this Appalachian original its due.

SERVES6

TIME2 hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

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 ...

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