Kentucky Fried Peaches

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2 to 4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

In my experience, country-style restaurants (particularly barbecue pits) in both Georgia and Arkansas seem to pride themselves on small fried peach pies and turnovers, but it’s only in Kentucky where I’ve come across these spicy fried peaches served almost without exception atop large scoops of vanilla ice cream. One restaurant in Louisville even went so far as to have waiters very ceremoniously flame the peaches tableside in chafing dishes, perhaps just another indication of how our noble