Coconut cakes are the crowning glory of the Christmas feast in many a Southern household. They are found throughout the region, and recipes date back to the early years of the nineteenth century.
This cake was part of every Christmas from my first to the present day, some half century later. I remember my grandfather heading [...]
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This isn’t a cream pie, but a rich, delicious custard I remember well from my childhood growing up in a small North Carolina town.
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flaked coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Beat together butter, sugar, and eggs [...]
Chocolate Cake:
Make a Duncan-Heinz Devil’s Food cake per box directions.
Chocolate Pudding Filling:
2 packages instant chocolate pudding mix
3 cups whole milk
Whipped Cream:
2 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Garnish:
About 1 cup Oreos, crushed into crumbs
Make the cake per the directions on the box.
Make the chocolate pudding filling:
In a large bowl, beat the instant pudding [...]
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 pints blackberries
1 Stick Margarine or Butter
3/4 cup of Milk
1/2 cup sugar for top of cobbler
cinnamon and/or nutmeg (optional)
Sift together dry ingredients. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt margarine in oven in 9″X13″ pan. When melted, pour in dry ingredients and milk to make batter. Distribute [...]
Buttermilk pie is a custard pie that came to the Southern table by way of England, where similar milk and egg custards date back to Medieval times.
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
3 teaspoons flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pastry for 9 inch single crust pie
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a 4-quart mixing [...]
1 loaf French bread , broken into very small pieces (about 6 cups)
1 stick butter, melted
8 eggs.\, beaten
3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup raisins
3/4 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.; grease bottom and sides of a 9-x13-inch baking dish.
In [...]
Bourbon balls took their place as one of the South’s favorite candies shortly after the Second World War and are an extremely popular Christmas treat throughout the region, but especially in Kentucky. They can also be made with rum and called “Tipsy Balls.â€
3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs (12-oz. box)
1 cup ground pecans
1 cup powdered sugar [...]
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 cup blackberry jam
1 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
1 Ttablespoon butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a 2-quart mixing bowl, sift together flour, [...]
This is the best sweet potato pie I have ever put in my mouth, in large part because of its unusual flavor.Traditionally, sweet potato pie is flavored with the same spices as its cousin, pumpkin pie—cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice. The surprise in this version is that it eschews the heavy, heady flavor of [...]
Chilling the dough and working it as little as possible will yield a flakier crust; substituting 1/2 cup vegetable shortening or lard for 1/2 cup of the butter in this recipe will also make the crust flakier.
Yields: Enough for two 9-inch Pie Crusts
21/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted [...]
