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SONKER

Program
Hungry for History®
Subject
Arts & Culture
Location
114 W Atkins St, Dobson, NC 27017, USA
Lat/Long
36.3957911, -80.7235161
Grant Recipient
Surry County Tourism Development Authority
Historic Marker

SONKER

Inscription

SONKER
UNIQUE DESSERT THOUGHT TO
ORIGINATE IN SURRY COUNTY
IN MID 1800S. SIMILAR TO
COBBLER, MADE WITH DOUGH
AND FRUIT OR SWEET POTATO.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2022

Sonker is a local dessert similar to deep dish pie or cobbler. Sonkers helped feed the often large farming families frugally by using their own produce. Commonly used are peaches, apples, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, pears, strawberries and sweet potatoes. The unshaped dough is sweetened with sugar or sorghum cane molasses. The dessert is sometimes accompanied by a dip (glaze) made of cream, sugar or molasses, and vanilla extract. The origin of the name, however, has been lost to time.

Sonker.
Sonker.
Hungry for History marker for Sonker, Dobson, North Carolina. Marker funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.