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Sonker

A deep-dish pie that is juicier than cobbler, served with vanilla ice cream or dip, a vanilla cream sauce

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Lazy Strawberry Sonker | The Splendid Table

Sonker has spent too much time in the shadows. We wanted to give this Appalachian original its due...

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Recipe: Surry County sonker

Sonkers are kind of like a pie or cobbler that involves fruit and unshaped dough and sugar or sourghum cane molasses. And here's its claim to fame: It comes from Surry County...

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Peach Sonker Recipe

This deep dish, pie-like peach sweet is a classic dessert from Appalachia that's a great summer offering for a crowd...

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Triple Berry Sonker With Dip Recipe

Never heard of a sonker? You're not alone. This dessert is beloved in a particular part of the South—Surry County, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to be exact. Find out more about sonkers and get a recipe for a berry sonker...

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Strawberry Peach Sonker with Milk Dip | North Carolina's Cobbler Cousin

A cobbler by any other name, sonker is native to Surry and Wilkes Counties in North Carolina. And deserves to be made and enjoyed all over...

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