[Ads-l] Antedating of "Peach Cobbler"

[Shapiro, Fred]

peach cobbler (OED 1859)

1845 Indians State Sentinel 22 May 3/2 (Newspapers.com)

The hills of honest old democratic Pennsylvania, when and where, in my young days, the boys (and the girls too) revelled in suppers of "apple and milk," peach cobbler and milk, and "mush and milk."

Fred Shapiro

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