Pea Picking Cake…Coffee Cake…Jane’s Gooey Butter Cake - History of Pea Picking Cake.. Years ago, in the southern states like Georgia and the Carolina’s, pig roasts or barbecue pork roast were called pig pickings. A whole pig was roasted over a barbecue and then the meat was picked off. These barbecues were special events and everyone brought their favorite pot luck dishes and desserts. This cake became a favorite dessert at those events and became known as a pig picking cake. In the Tennessee area during hog killing time and sausage and ham making events among farmers, this cake became known as the pea pick’n cake, which has stuck. Farmers would get together and help out with this chore at each other farms and the ladies would provide a covered dish meal.
By the time the 1980’s rolled around this was a very popular cake and the recipe had made it into newspapers and women’s magazines the decade before. It was given many different names but the fact remained that this cake has it’s roots in the south. Pea Picking Cake sounds better than Pig Picking Cake.
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