We spent the weekend visiting my parents. Saturday evening upon finishing dinner we sat around the table eating sliced peaches over vanilla ice cream. As we chatted we reminisced about my grandfather, my dad's dad, who loved fresh peaches. Every summer you could depend on him to buy a bushel or two out in the country -- local, big, ripe ones, sweet and juicy enough to quench your thirst on a hot summer day.
He would tote them home and hand them over to my grandmother who would use them to make homemade peach ice cream and peach filling for kolaches. She would slice them to eat with ice cream and pound cake -- the best way, in her opinion, to serve peaches. The rest she would slice to store away in, as my grandfather called them, "freeze-tainers." Freeze-tainers?! I giggle every time I think of his quirky little word for storage containers.
Saturday evening we laughed while we talked about peaches and the old days and freeze-tainers. Then my dad suggested that he vaguely remembers freeze-tainers being a brand...? Could be, I don't know. What I do know is that when I eat peaches in the summertime I think of my grandparents.Here is my version of a berry-peach cobbler recipe that I clipped from the newspaper. Serve it up with some vanilla ice cream and you'll have a mighty fine dessert!
Berry-Peach Cobbler
5-6 fresh, local peaches, peeled, pitted, and sliced
1 cup fresh, local berries (I use blueberries)
1/2 cup brown sugar
heaping 1/3 cup oats
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup butter
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 water
1/2 Tbls. corn starch
Mix the brown sugar, oats, flour, and cinnamon. Cut in the butter until mixture is crumbly. Press half the mixture into a greased, square baking dish. Cover with sliced peaches and berries. Mix the water, sugar, and corn starch in small saucepan and bring to a simmer. Pour the syrup evenly all over the fruit. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar-oat mixture. Bake at 350 for one hour. Serves 4-6, or double the recipe and use a bigger dish to make more.
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