I have mentioned before how when I married a Southern gentleman I assumed I would have to do some Southern cooking. I bought many a Southern cookbook and many, many people upon hearing that I had married a Southern gent offered up their mother or grandmother's recipes. I not of course realizing at the time that my husband really only eats one Southern food(that being fried chicken) gladly took all the recipes I could get. One recipe that I seemed to get over and over was for peach cobbler. But not like any cobbler I have ever had. See where I am from, peach cobbler is some peaches tossed with some sugar and sometimes spice and then toped with either a biscuit kind of topping or crumbled up dough and oats with sugar and nuts. So when I kept reading the very similar cobbler recipes I found it fascinating that the peaches went on top and that it was more cake like. Hmmmm. All of the recipes assured me that the peaches would go to the bottom and the cobbler would go to the top...they are … [Read more...]