You've never heard of this dessert... | Sonker: What is it and how to make it! | Southern Cooking

Where are those? We're on the smoker's path here. I wonder how old

this

cooking

machine is? We don't need to rush these things, although it really is fine. It turns out that

this

is a berry strainer. I tried to find it on the mudpie website when I first bought it and it was like a long list of things, sorry about the hammer and there's still stuff going on on the back porch anyway. I tried to find it on their website to find out exactly

what

it was and was. very long list and I just didn't go through the entire list of items, but yes, apparently it's a berry strainer. um, it would have to be just for straws.

Raspberries could also fit here and blackberries. I'm about to wash some berries. So let's see how it works here whether they fall through the holes or not, because that's the reason I thought, do you know

what

you could put in there? Everything is going to fall off and you can't wash much in there at once. time because it's small, you know, I would probably use it mostly for decoration. I mean, hey, it's microwave safe if you wanted to microwave something, but yeah, I bought it at Belle's Outlet, so let's see how it would work with blackberries. it works pretty well, oh, I mean, these are really big blackberries, although like our wild blackberries that we have in the garden, they would totally fall through this, but for these big ones it works, it's pretty.

I had one of my moments of no, no, no, uh. when I was bringing this Berry strainer here and I dropped the little thing that came with it, I'm trying to glue it back up here right now, everyone will see where it broke right there, but we're supergluing it on so it goes away. Be okay anyway, yeah, it came with that, so we'll transfer the blackberries here, we're doing a sinker, let's see how we do with the raspberries here, okay, oh no, we lost the raspberry so it doesn't pass the test of the raspberry, oh. I'm losing them here.

I'm going to throw them in the bowl with the blackberries, but yeah, I'm like what one of you said about this Berry stram here, um, it's better for a decoration, it would be nice. to hold lemons, yeah, I think it would be nice to just put lemons in here because it's too delicate, you know, so we're making a Triple Berry, we've got blackberries, raspberries and now strawberries, I guess we'll wash them. This little piece here is for you to hold while you wash the berries. Okay, now for the strawberries, we have our little strawberry extractor that we got from the farmers market.

If I can find it, we got it from the farmers market when we went to strawberry picking day, so you just pick it up and then you twist like this and boom, your strawberry is ready, we're going to put this in the bowl with other berries, we're going to cut the strawberries a little bit, okay, so we have The oven preheats to 350. I'm going to cut these strawberries while we talk about what a

sonker

is last weekend. Titus and I were here. I'm pretty sure we were watching the Appalachian Channel, so John, if you don't. I know that channel, I'll link it below.

I mean, he doesn't know who we are, but his name is John, I'm pretty sure he's John anyway, he goes to a lot of old general stores and different things like that in Tennessee and everything. That, well, we really like the ones that go to places that have restaurants and all that, I guess, because we were seeing that the next video played after one of their videos or it may not have played right after, maybe there was just suggested. Anyway, however it happened, we found this video from Sui County, North Carolina. I think I'm saying that, in Sui County.

They have some videos on their channel. I'll link them below and they're called Tasty Journeys with Travis Fry and Them. I have this thing called Sunker Trail, Sui Sunker Trail, anyway, Sunker is a

dessert

that a lot of those restaurants have, so I'm about to read to you what it is. I think I have all my strawberries ready here and we are. I'm still waiting on the oven so when I first saw the sink in one of the restaurant videos I thought it looked like a cobbler but with a big ball of dough on top instead of a cookie or something like you'd normally see in a Shoe

make

r.

It looked like a big dumpling, so right here on this website actually called Sunker Trail.org it says what Sunker is. First of all, on the website about house flavor, there is an article about Sunker and a recipe, that is the recipe we are on. Using it says that

sonker

is the most popular North Carolina

dessert

that most people have

never

heard

of, much less baked at home. It was invented to feed a hungry crowd and a wide variety of soer recipes are passed down from generation to generation in Sui County in North Carolina. You actually have Siri County here, bakery diners and home cooks use each season's best fruit to bake dishes year-round to try the Real Deal, stop at several local spots on the Sir Sonker Trail and experience the many flavors of Carolina. sonker for you there is no road trip in your future

make

this blueberry sonker recipe at home and you are an hour away from blueberry heaven.

I don't have blueberries, so we used strawberries, blackberries and raspberries and down here it says that you can you know, like it was just said about the different seasons, you can use any berry and you can mix the berries, which is what we're doing, let's have a Triple Berry dip, unlike fruit cobblers which have batter spooned onto the Sonka filling recipes have a thick pancake-like batter poured over a hot baked fruit base. The heat from the fruit filling cooks the topping from the bottom while the oven provides a gorgeous golden crisp on top. I'm trying to talk through my fingernails.

Put things together, the end result is a cross between a cake and a cookie. The name sonker is rumored to come from a Scottish word meaning saddle and refers to how the soft topping sits like a saddle on the baked fruit filling below. I've read some other things. I said one thing. I think it's on Siri Sonker Trail. The word Sonker comes from the Scottish dialect and originally referred to a small grassy void that might have been used as a seat. The meaning evolved to describe a made seat. made from bundles of hay or straw and finally a straw chair, another school of thought says that the dessert derives its name from the word sunken because the crust of a sunken sinks into the fruit filling after being passed through from Decades of rural Carolina dialect, maybe sunken became sunken, I'm just buttering the plate here that way, it'll be ready when we get the berry mixture ready, okay, we'll put it back here with the berries, we need 1 /4 cup sugar, I'll link the other one now. cobbler recipes below and we have pandaly, we have Buckle.

I think we did a Buckle before. There are many different names for these types of desserts and they are all made a little differently and turn out a little different, but this one is ours. this is my first time trying this so we have the sugar now we need 1/4 teaspoon of salt okay we'll go ahead and stir everything together oh my goodness that already smells so good and we've just started I hope. While ours looks like dumpling topping, we don't know exactly what it will look like yet, but we'll see. I will link both channels under the Appalachian Channel and the Su County Channel, but on the Sir County Channel.

There's a lot of other things about his sporting events and all kinds of things that you know about his county, but if you want to watch the restaurant episodes, they're called Tasty Trips with Travis Fry in this little bowl that we're going to put. 1/4 cup of water and 3 tablespoons of cornstarch 1 2 3 maybe one day we will go to the trail and enjoy it ourselves we will definitely have some hikes coming soon or summer vacation trips. We were going to go somewhere this week, but Titus has been really busy since it's spring break, everyone is riding horses and all I was hoping was that we could go to Rock City this week, but we're going to have to save that For an excursion, yes.

Jonah really loves rocks, don't you think? So we put the cornstarch mixture in there with the berries, we're going to pour this into the baking dish and we're going to bake it at 350 for 15 minutes while the bacon is, we're going to clean up our mess that we made, which isn't big right now, but we'll clean it and then after 15 minutes we take it out and stir it, then we put it back in for 15 more minutes, during those 15 minutes we'll do it. Let's make the mixture for the top, we're going to go ahead and prepare the ingredients for the topping, so we've got a stick of melted butter in there, we need a cup of all-purpose flour, we're going to go ahead and put the dry ingredients in the bowl.

It won't hurt to go ahead and mix them up. We need 3/4 cup of sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder, a teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. It's already back there, I just had to do it. I climb the highest mountain to get to that salt, refilling my salt shaker over here now we need 1/4 teaspoon and that's it for the dry ingredients, we'll whisk them together and that part will be ready when we start mixing the rest of the as a topping now we have our stick of butter, we need half a cup of milk and a teaspoon of vanilla, okay, now we are going to stir the berries and we will return them for 15 more minutes.

Look, it's starting to get nice and thick with the cornstarch mixture. You can use fresh or frozen berries. I already said that you can use either one. Okay, this will come back in. We'll go ahead and mix up our coverage now, when these last 15 minutes are over. which we've already reduced to 13 and 1/2 minutes now we're going to pour this over the top and then we're going to put it back in the oven for about 30 to 40 more minutes and he said you might want to rotate it halfway through. of the

cooking

time, so we're going to set a timer for 15 minutes, rotate it, and then let it finish so that's what the dough looks like for the topping.

It smells really good, what do we think about that? Manny, we think it's your second square. If we can. Look, it's sinking, yes, it looks like a square, it's a life, it's bubbling out there, right? Yes, what is ketchup? Oh, it's not ketchup, that's the fruit down there that we're making, while we're down here, dad. You know, we saw it on those delightful trips with Travis Fry. I'll make him one that he just received. He doesn't know anything about our stonker trail. We're on the stonker trail here. Do we have vanilla ice cream? Let me go. and look, yes, we do it right, we're going to rotate, it smells wonderful, here we go, 15 more minutes and it's very good.

I can definitely see how the sunken bread is different, everyone sees that there's a little bit of bread right there, the bread part, yeah. I mean, it's different than a cobbler, it's a cake like it's a crispy cake on top. They are on the same tree, but on a different branch. I definitely can, it's good mhm, now that it's cooled down a bit, you can see. the texture of the breaded part A little better okay it's almost like a cake but the top is crispy especially around the edges it's a crispy top and then a very spongy cake in the middle and then the Bottom is like the traditional Cupa cake. the breading is almost like a dumpling texture, it's really good, we will definitely make more dishes in the future, we are looking for something light for the back porch, oh look they have lava lamps.

I used to have a lava lamp when I was a kid, I think one year I bought Jacob a lava lamp, he wanted one, that one is good, this one is doing well, this one is not doing well fighting right here, I lost Titus again. oh look at these flowers Hawaiian Punch cream cheesecake she said that's a try I think she gave us two pieces and for free too and she gave it to us for free I don't know why maybe it's because they fixed the fabric and we said let's take it ours for take out we are at the restaurant blairesville restaurant we have

never

been here before good very good it smells like they have a good cheeseburger yes we have cheeseburgers and fries they have a nice little porch here benches , windmill, we like this old look, oh yeah, this is like a whitewash.

I wonder how old he is. This Coca-Cola machine does not deposit coins if the bottles are not visible. Another little boy. I remember them right there. I know a lot of people might not think I'm old enough to remember here, but I do. It's open. Oh, look at that can. Can you imagine how many hands I stuck in there and pulled out a Coke and enjoyed it? C, down here is where you got your change, okay? You all know that when you start seeing these packets of peanut butter, ketchup and mustard, you have something good. you have something good you have something here people start there those are the good people people come back Jack everyone will notice that I have taken off my seat belt oh yes, that's when you're serious we yes, you're serious I want to feel free when I eat this, oh yeah, there's flavor and then there's flavor M, this looks like it's going to be really good.

I already said the blessing, you already blessed him. I did it, she blessed it right when they brought it to us, she was already saying that theblessing she is. I have seen the lady, there is an older lady walking towards us, she was already saying father, thank you for this, we don't need to rush with these things, although really let me have some mayonnaise, mom, you already loaded yours with mayonnaise, all mayonnaise, here you go, oh. Friends, I love it when someone gives me mayonnaise on a French fry, that's all I need anyway, she knows me, we've been married a long time, that's why we keep them company when they come to the house we They like, oh, you need some mayonnaise, mom, look.

I was about to say I gave you all the ketchup and I just let you have all the ketchup and here on my lap with a packet he knows what desires he has he knows I need that mustard no let's see what this bad boy tastes like he's enough big, I know, yeah m m m huh Bobby, you know yourself in the presence of something good when it all starts, it just starts to get quiet mhm, that's great, there people go there, buy a cheeseburger. I just didn't know how to be original. It was very crispy.

Blairesville has a nice courthouse, I mean, look. In that, what I was telling him was that years ago my dad used to tell me how do you know I needed that what he was trying to tell me with my music needed to be original, not try to sound like someone else, right? I'm not trying to sound like someone else, so that's the hardest thing to develop. It took me a long time before I stopped sounding like someone else and now I sound like me, which, as you know, I'm not ready for, you need to be. original, you really need to be original in everything you do, uh, but back then I was crunchy or extra crunchy, you know what I'm saying, I mean, I couldn't be, that's what I was saying, I was just trying to joke with that. a little bit, I definitely did barbecue sometimes and that's like everyone's barbecue, you know, don't be barbecue, be salt and vinegar, boy, I tell you what I hate.

Us, them, salt and vinegar, it smells like sparks, someone can open a bag of that stuff. I don't think it's just something if I see the bag I don't have to see the bag I can be like where are those bad guys? He says disgusting disgusting it smells like a stinky sock. Tyler and I like how I said stinky instead of stinky. Yes, there are two ways to say this folks, it's like pudding or pudding, you'll never hear me say pudding. I can't say pudding. I understand. I'm not going to say pudding. I don't think we can.

I'll say it even in heaven, but the Lord might change if he serves some banana pudding. I will say it's the best Nan pudding I've ever had, it's the best Nan pudding we've ever had before and he'll be delighted that it's original and It makes no difference if I'm in front of people who have a lot more, you could say a lot more money than me and that's everyone. I just beat myself up. I'm not going to try to talk to a different guy. English in other words I'm going to say how good you are n oh