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When You Want Peach Pie, And You Want It Fast!

11/14/2014

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    ...not be confused with Dollar General,
    I'm a Dollar Tree afficionada.
    I love the Dollar Tree,

...which I also like, but which isn't a dollar store in the truest sense in that most items it carries actually cost more than a dollar.  Like the curtains I bought for my bedroom, which cost $4.50 on clearance and look  nice in the room,
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    But which turned out to be not such a deal because I bought two packages of curtains assuming each package held two curtains, but it turned out that each package only held one curtain, so I had to run back to the Dollar General to buy two more curtains, but when I got there all the clearance curtains  were gone so now in my bedroom I have one  window with the Dollar General curtains that I like and one with some  curtains I bought at Ikea which I don't like  -
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    -the Ikea ones were the ones I was trying to hang when I fell off the chair and broke my rib - so now my room looks like this:
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...and I can't decide whether to a) just hang the other set of Ikea curtains which I don't like and be done with it, b) keep looking around for new curtains,  or  c) settle for living out the rest of my life in the state of internal unrest generated by indecision and having a bedroom with mismatched curtains.
    But back to the Dollar Tree, the real beauty of which isn't so much that everything there costs a dollar or less but that it's got nice stuff for the price.
   
I spent quite a bit of  time trolling the aisles back when I was collecting things to decorate the church hall for Theresa's wedding.
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    In fact, after Theresa's wedding was over for weeks whenever I drove by our neighborhood Dollar Tree I felt a pull of nostalgia for all the time I spent in there before the wedding, and I'd often find myself stopping in just to look around, troll the aisles some more - to this day going into the Dollar General still gives me a glowy twinge of wedding feeling - and so I got to know the lay of the place pretty well, became a regular, and have subsequently developed into a rather savvy Dollar Tree connoisseur.
    And a few weeks ago, during a routine Dollar Store trip to pick up some canned peaches for a canned peach pie, I happened across this box of cobbler mix in the baking aisle, 
the photo on the front of which looked so much like a result I'd like to get if I were making a peach pastry that I decided to take a chance, check it out, and change my plan from peach pie to peach cobbler.
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    The recipe on the back of the box called for, along with the mix, half a stick of butter or margarine,  2/3 cup of milk and a 15-oz. can of peaches in heavy syrup.  I decided to go with a 29 oz. can.  Disclaimer: the can of peaches in the photo came from the Dollar General.  Turns out I already had some Dollar General peaches in the basement.
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    The cobbler whipped up in minutes:  I melted the margarine and poured it into the bottom of a pie plate, mixed the milk with the mix, placed the peaches on top of the mix, and popped it into the oven.  25 minutes later it came out looking like this: 
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    It was sooooo delicious, better than peach pie, and took 'way less than half the time to make.  And warm from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream?  It was heaven on earth.
    So if you find yourself in need of a little slice of heaven on earth but are short on time, hi-ti over to the Dollar Tree and pick up some peaches and a box of Loretta's cobbler mix.
    You'll probably see me there doing the same.
    Everybody have a sweet weekend. 8)

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Romaine
11/14/2014 05:03:13 am

Nice!! Looks yummy and the thought of melted ice cream to go with is divine!

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Patti
11/14/2014 06:25:03 am

It was almost an out-of-body experience!

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Romaine
11/14/2014 08:08:46 am

Wow - those are hard to come by

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Patti
11/14/2014 10:07:34 am

I'll bring a box of cobbler mix with me when I come for a visit and we can have a pizzelle & peach pie party! ;)

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Valerie Boxley-fall
5/24/2020 06:26:22 pm

Do dollar tree sell this product Loretta fruit cobbler mix and could i order it

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