Archives for June, 2008

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
1/4 cup canola oil
2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
In a 1 1/2 quart bowl, using a large spoon, stir together eggs, milk, lemon juice, grated lemon peel and oil until well blended. [...]

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High Rise Biscuits

These light, airy biscuits are a real treat.

1 cup cake flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut in 1/4″ cubes
3/4 cup half and half
Pre-heat oven to to 400 degrees.

Sift together cake flour, all-purpose flour, cream of
tartar, baking soda, and salt.
Using a pastry blender [...]

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Sweet potato biscuits are another gift to Southern cooking from African Americans. The recipes go back to before the Civil War; during the wartime food shortages, they became familiar to all southerners as the sweet potatoes were used to stretch out flour, which was scarce in the last years of the war.
The biscuits are [...]

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Beaten Biscuits

These traditional Southern biscuits date back to the days before baking powder and baking soda were available. Pearlash, which was used as the main leavener at the time, gave biscuits a bitter taste. Cooks found that by pounding and folding unleavened biscuit dough enough times, tiny air pockets formed in the dough and leavened it.
When [...]

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Corn Pone

You heard Granny talk about it, now make your own!
3 cups cornmeal
3 tablespoons lard or vegetable shortening
2 1/2 cups boiling water
3 teaspoons salt
Melt lard in 10 inch cast iron skillet and swirl to coat. Pour remaining fat into other ingredients and mix. Bake at 350¼ F for 45- 50 min. or until golden brown. [...]

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Hot Water Cornbread

1 cup stone-ground yellow cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons butter
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine cornmeal and salt in medium bowl. Pour boiling water into dry ingredients and stir well.
Add butter and beat until mixed well. Pour mixture into greased, pre-heated 10 inch cast iron skillet. Bake 20 [...]

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Quick Cornbread

Quick Cornbread
2 cups self-rising cornmeal
1 egg
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup shortening
Mix until just moist. Pour mixture into a hot 10” cast iron skillet and bake at 400º for 20-25 minutes or until browned.
© 2000 Rick McDaniel
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Banana Nut Bread

3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1 cube butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Butter and lightly flour1 loaf pan. Combine bananas, sugar, eggs, and butter: mix well. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add to banana mixture and mix until well blended. Add walnuts. Bake at 350 for [...]

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Grilled Vidalia Onions

1 medium Vidalia Onion (per person)
1 cubeBeef Bouillon (per onion)
1 tablespoon butter (per onion)
Parmesan Cheese

Peel and core onions. Insert 1 beef bouillon cube into onion, and add 1 Tbsp. margarine in center. Also, insert 1 ice cube. Sprinkle generously with Parmeasan cheese. Wrap in heavy duty or doubled aluminum foil. Allow small opening to vent. [...]

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Collard Greens

4-6 bunches of collards
5 slices of salt pork or bacon
1 ham hock
1 large onion, chopped
Soul Food Seasoning to taste
Black pepper to taste
Water to cover
Place collards in kitchen sink. Fill sink with water, pushing leaves under running water as sink fills. Allow to soak for five minutes; drain water, rinse collards under running water and fill [...]

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