I’ve noticed that coming across a slice of peach pie on a dessert menu or a whole pie in a bakery is practically impossible. Having developed a real craving for the summertime treat, I set off on a ten-day trip to the Peach State – Georgia.
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Georgia is known as the Peach State for valid reason. Those delicious fleshy orbs of rosy nectar are truly fit for kings. Give me a fresh Georgia peach pie and I need nothing more- I’ll eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Since I did not venture to Washington for the Inaugu-ration, I decided to bake. Fact is a recipe for peach cobbler appeared all over the Internet about a week ago. Supposedly it is Barack Obama’s favorite dessert, and I must admit a fondness for cobblers myself.
Before starting, I cut the recipe in half which called for 15 cups of peaches. 15 cups? That’s an awful lot of fruit when it’s selling for $2.49 a pound (in Jacksonville, FL.) Frozen peaches were an option, but honestly, not much lower in cost.
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