Peachy

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National Peach Cobbler Day on April 13 celebrates peach cobbler, the undeniable American classic — it even comes from early European settlers in America! Something we love about cobblers is that there’s basically an endless variety. From classics like peach- and blackberry cobblers, to crisps, crumbles, Brown Betties, and pandowdies — if you have juicy fresh berries and some kind of dough, you have a cobbler!

Varieties of pie and cobbler have existed for thousands of years, yet peach cobbler is distinctly tied to early European settlers in America. As Americans pushed into the West and settled the frontier, fruit could be difficult to come by. Simple and easy fruit cobblers became popular dishes for breakfast as well as dessert! It was in the mid-1800s, as westward expansion in America took off, that peach cobbler rose in popularity.

These pioneers had to make do — though preserves and foods with baking powder added weren’t considered fine cuisine, the settlers didn’t have many options and often relied on these ingredients. They would cobble together fruit filling with plain biscuit dough on top, and the result looked like a cobbled street! Lacking real ovens, settlers would use campfire ‘Dutch ovens’ to heat up the dessert.

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 27,494]

Yum...

 

[Ed Kennell 40,455]

I have an unlimited supply, so It's blackberry/apple pie for me.

 

 

 

   

 

 

[Beap52 1,178]

Was camping a couple of years ago.  We stopped and bought fresh peaches and left them on the table at the campground while trout fishing.  When we returned, three of the five peaches were missing-we figured squirrels or coons.  So we combined the peaches with blackberries we brought from home.  This mixture has become a staple on these fishing trips.  Baked in dutch oven of course. A quick trip down to the campground store for soft serve ice cream tops a bowl of warm blackberry/peach pie.  

[oliver2-44 10,351]

As a Scout leader, from time to time, we had to encourage the boys to plan and cook better meals. So I would pull out my Dutch oven and make a peach or cherry cobbler for the adults. Needless to say the boys soon smelled and saw us eating it. When they came begging for some I would hand them a bag of ingredients. 
 

Like the Pioneers my cobblers were simple. 
1 box of white cake with pudding. 
Eggs as per cake mix 

1 large can peaches, use peach juice in place of water in cake mix. 
1 can of carnation sweetened condensed milk. 
To help keep the top of the cobbler from burning I would float a piece of aluminum foil on top of the cobbler. 

Replace peaches with constrict cherry pie filling or fresh fruit as available. 

Double recipe for large Dutch oven

 

[peter lena 9,085]

@oliver2-44  as a scout  , we were  based at a VFW hall building , had navy cooks  show us how to buy , prepare , cook , anything , a few of our camps in NY STATE  , had retired rail cars , for our  home base , kitchen , sleeping , storage , etc . those guys would do anything to show you the way . pete

[Beap52 1,178]

On 4/13/2025 at 10:08 PM, oliver2-44 said:

1 can of carnation sweetened condensed milk. 

 

 

My wife is experiencing the changes in new sizes of cake mixes and canned goods.  

 

She was making a cake from a recipe she has had for years. It wasn't turning out quite right and in talking to a friend, she was told to use 1 1/2 cake mixes.  Apparently the new smaller sizes affect the old stand by recipes.