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National Peach Cobbler Day

It’s National Peach Cobbler Day! A cobbler is a deep-dish fruit pie covered with a thick crust made from biscuit dough. This delicious dessert originated in the American West during the 19th century. Although for many years people did not consider cobbler fashionable enough to serve to guests, it has now earned a permanent place in the pantheon of wholesome American desserts.

Did you know that the world’s largest peach cobbler was 11x5 feet across and 8 inches deep? It appeared at the the Georgia Peach Festival in 2007 and contained 90 pounds of butter, 150 pounds of sugar, 150 pounds of flour, 32 gallons of milk, and 75 gallons of peaches!

To celebrate National Peach Cobbler Day, bake a delicious peach cobbler for dessert tonight!

April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month & National Grilled Cheese Month

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History for April 13  1870 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York City. 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial. 1958 - Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX, earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union's Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. He was the first American to win the award. 1972 - The first strike in the history of major league baseball ended. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier. 1985 - "The Grand Ole Opry" debuted on television. _________________________________________________________ "If one only wished to be happy, this could easily be accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are." --Montesquieu