Georgia Cobbler by Faith Jones

I was up late one night watching the food network when Paula Deen came on the television. She began talking about peach cobbler and the history of it. She described how all the ingredients used to make peach cobbler came from the Old World to the New World.

 

Ingredients:

4 cups, peeled, sliced peaches

2 cups of sugar

8 tablespoons of butter

1 ½ cups of flour

1 ½ cups of milk

½ cup of water

 

            The main ingredient in peach cobbler, peaches, originated in China and made its way to the New World through the Columbian exchange along with cows and sugar cane. Cows were mentioned in this portion of the show because milk and butter are used in the process of making peach cobbler along with sugar, which originated in south-east Asia.

            The last ingredient she mentioned was flour.  She said the Romans were known to be the first group of people to use flour. That leads its origins back to the Old World.

            After hearing Paula talk about peach cobbler it made me want to make my own dish. So I recorded the episode and the next day I gathered all the ingredients and made it with her. It was delicious J