Southern Fried Peach Pies

Petdrwife's Note:

This is a recipe from my Great Grandmother. I can remember going to her house and sitting down to a lunch of Fried chicken, mash potatoes, green beans, fried corn, biscuits and fried peach pies for dessert. It is a wonder we didn't all die from heart disease but that is country living. These directions were written for me real countryfied so I explained best I could but you will get the jist. Make dough, fill it and fry it!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 50 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

For dough

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup Crisco
• milk
• butter

For filling

• 6 ounces dried peaches
• water
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• oil (for frying)

Directions:

1. Place flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
2. Cut in crisco with pastry cutter or fork.
3. Add enough milk to make dough, do not mix too much.
4. Let biscuit dough sit for 1 hour.
5. Meanwhile take dried peaches and put in sauce pan with enough water to cover and cook until soft.
6. Add 1 1/2 cups of sugar and cook 15 minuts more.
7. Remove from stove and mash with potato masher; set aside.
8. Preheat electric skillet to 300 degrees.
9. Take biscuit dough and pull enough off for one pie, roll it out thin on floured board. Take a saucer, place on rolled out dough and trim around it with a sharp knife.
10. Place two big spoons of peaches on one side of dough and lap the other side over in half moon shape. Seal the edges with a fork.
11. Fry pies in skillet until brown, then turn and brown other side.
12. Drain on paper towels.
13. These pies can be eaten warm or stored in a container and eaten the next day room temperature they are awesome either way.

Reviews

[BamaKathy]

Oh thank you thank you thank you. My granny made these all the time for every family get-together. We all fought over them and begged to take home the leftovers. When she died, no one had ever been able to duplicate them. I was so excited to find this recipe and ran out and bought the ingredients. They were just like Granny's. I actually cried when I was eating them because it was just like seeing her standing there by that iron skillet smiling at us kids fighting over the pies. I love you for posting this.

[Weewah]

Wow. These ARE old fashioned fried pies. I used dried apricots, and they fulfilled all the fried pie fantasies/memories in this house. The crust also works well w/ prepared pudding pie fillings (like chocolate & coconut cream), jams and marmalade. Thanks so much!

[Chef #730763]

I updated this to say I have made these a few times now, and recently made them with nice juicy Georgia peaches. Wow! were they good! May 28, 2008 I made these using Macintosh apples instead of the peaches, and they were wonderful! Brought back memories of when I was younger and my mama used to make them when I was little. Thank you for sharing Petdrwife! Cindy