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 [...]
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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
1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted [...]
Ambrosia is the simplest Southern dessert, an heirloom classic made with fresh fruit, sugar and grated coconut; the recipe for ambrosia first began appearing by that name in Southern cookbooks in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Yield: 6 servings
6 navel oranges, peeled, sectioned and chopped
1 pineapple, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
2 cups unsweetened [...]
