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Mar 12

Irish Soda Bread

With St. Patrick's Day upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to make some Irish Soda Bread. This is a very easy quick bread recipe and looks great on the table. If you've never had Soda Bread, you can think of it along the sames lines as cornb (read full article)

breads, Traditional Dishes, Video

Oct 29

Corn Muffins

Since I haven’t made any cornbread lately, I decided this afternoon to do some corn muffins using a recipe from Colonial Williamsburg. This are excellent muffins with just a bit of sweetness. Of course, I measured out all the ingredients and sif (read full article)

breads, side dishes, Traditional Dishes

Sep 15

Hush Puppies

"If it ain't fried, it ain't died." That was something my Daddy would say from time to time when faced with all the "Nouvelle Cuisine" in vogue during my teenage years. He was only joking, of course. He enjoyed lots of things that weren't fried, but (read full article)

side dishes, Traditional Dishes

Sep 11

Traditional Southern Biscuits

In the mid 1940's my grandmother had become a single parent. My grandfather died suddenly on Christmas Eve in 1941, probably of complications related to severe asthma. She was managing to hold together house and home with a house full of teenagers.On (read full article)

Traditional Dishes

Sep 09

Benne Wafers

Yesterday afternoon my copy of South of Broad by Pat Conroy arrived in the mail. I had a batch of Shrewsbury Cakes baking in the oven and a thunderstorm was just beginning over the parched desert. In all it was a very nice afternoon.Reading Conroy's (read full article)

cookies, Traditional Dishes

Sep 03

Baba's Pecan Pies

When I was growing up we had three huge pecan trees in our yard. My grandmother and other relatives also had pecan trees so each Fall we'd be out collecting the pecans as they fell from the trees. Along with Pumpkin Pie the Pecan Pie was a Fall favor (read full article)

PIES, Traditional Dishes

Sep 03

Baba's Pecan Pies

When I was growing up we had three huge pecan trees in our yard. My grandmother and other relatives also had pecan trees so each Fall we'd be out collecting the pecans as they fell from the trees. Along with Pumpkin Pie the Pecan Pie was a Fall favor (read full article)

PIES, Traditional Dishes

Aug 28

Traditional Southern Cornbread

Cornbread has been a staple of the Southern diet for centuries. Unlike it's counterpart in the north, traditional southern cornbread is not made with sugar. Sugar Cornbread is known as "Sweet Cornbread" or more derisively "Yankee Cornbread." Mama oft (read full article)

breads, Traditional Dishes

Aug 28

Traditional Southern Cornbread

Cornbread has been a staple of the Southern diet for centuries. Unlike it's counterpart in the north, traditional southern cornbread is not made with sugar. Sugar Cornbread is known as "Sweet Cornbread" or more derisively "Yankee Cornbread." Mama oft (read full article)

breads, Traditional Dishes

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