Serious Eats: Recipes
Cook the Book: Georgia Peach Cobbler
Photograph from totalAldo on Flickr
I went a little produce-crazy while shopping over the weekend, purchasing virtually every summer fruit and vegetable my local market had to offer. When I got home and unpacked my haul the counter was filled with overflowing bowls of tomatoes, peas, and especially peaches, really good, ripe peaches. Naturally a cobbler was in order, and I was confident that I would find a perfect recipe in Mary Mac's Tea Room.
While I can't call the cobbler I made an authentic Georgia Peach Cobbler since I'm pretty sure my peaches hailed from New Jersey, it was incredible. The peaches are peeled and sliced, and then mixed with sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, a bit of cornstarch, and then dotted with an entire stick of butter. The topping is somewhere in between a pie crust and a biscuit, made in the stand mixer and incredibly easy to roll out. While baking the peach juices mix with the butter and sugar, creating a liquid that seeps up over the crust and is delicious enough to eat by the spoonful.
The cobbler, just out of the oven and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, was by far the best dessert I've had this summer. The sweet peaches paired beautifully with the warm spices but still held on to a bit of tang, and the crust held its own even when met with melting ice cream. Even after I'd had a big bowl of cobbler I found myself gravitating back to the kitchen for a few extra bites.
Win Mary Mac's Tea Room
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Mary Mac's Tea Room to give away this week.