Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Curry of Cold Roast Fowl

Ingredients

  • Fowl
  • 2 large onions
  • 2 apples
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 oz. of butter
  • 1 dessert spoonful (1 tablespoon) of curry powder or paste
  • 1/2 pt. of gravy or soup-stock
  • 1 spoonful of lemon juice

Directions

  1. Fry the fowl and the onions in butter to a light brown color.
  2. Stew the apples or fry them also.
  3. Put all onions, apples, gravy, and fowl with the tomatoes and lemon juice into a stewing pan and let it stew for 30 minutes.
  4. If curry paste is used instead of curry powder, no lemon juice is required.
  5. Then serve with boiled rice.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Cha'Qalyn Brown
Louisiana Anthology
June 10, 2020

Curry of Cold Roast Fowl

Ingredients

  • Fowl
  • 2 large onions
  • 2 apples
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 oz. of butter
  • 1 dessert spoonful (1 tablespoon) of curry powder or paste
  • 1/2 pt. of gravy or soup-stock
  • 1 spoonful of lemon juice

Directions

  1. Fry the fowl and the onions in butter to a light brown color.
  2. Stew the apples or fry them also.
  3. Put all onions, apples, gravy, and fowl with the tomatoes and lemon juice into a stewing pan and let it stew for 30 minutes.
  4. If curry paste is used instead of curry powder, no lemon juice is required.
  5. Then serve with boiled rice.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Cha'Qalyn Brown
Louisiana Anthology
June 10, 2020

Gombo of Okra or Filee

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs of chicken or meat
  • 1 qt of sliced okra or a coffee-cupful of filee
  • White rice
  • Optional
    • Oyster
    • Crab
    • Shrimp
    • Green corn
    • Tomatoes
    • 1/2 lb of ham (or bacon)

Directions

  1. Cut up and season the chicken, meat, or other material to make the soup (2 pounds of meat or chicken, bones and all, with 1/2 a pound of ham or less of breakfast-bacon will flavor a gallon of soup)
  2. Fry the meat or chicken top a light brown in a pot
  3. Add boiling water in proportion to your meat and let simmer for at least two hours
  4. Take the large bones from the pot and add one quart of okra or a preparation of dried and pounded sassafras leaves called filee
  5. Never drain gombo
  6. If desired, add oysters, crabs, shrimp, green corn, tomatoes, etc.
  7. Boil rice and serve with gombo
  • This recipe will serve 6 people
    Source — La Cuisine Creole
    Prepared by Cha'Qalyn Brown
    Louisiana Anthology
    June 10, 2020

    Gombo of Okra or Filee

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbs of chicken or meat
    • 1 qt of sliced okra or a coffee-cupful of filee
    • White rice
    • Optional
      • Oyster
      • Crab
      • Shrimp
      • Green corn
      • Tomatoes
      • 1/2 lb of ham (or bacon)

    Directions

    1. Cut up and season the chicken, meat, or other material to make the soup (2 pounds of meat or chicken, bones and all, with 1/2 a pound of ham or less of breakfast-bacon will flavor a gallon of soup)
    2. Fry the meat or chicken top a light brown in a pot
    3. Add boiling water in proportion to your meat and let simmer for at least two hours
    4. Take the large bones from the pot and add one quart of okra or a preparation of dried and pounded sassafras leaves called filee
    5. Never drain gombo
    6. If desired, add oysters, crabs, shrimp, green corn, tomatoes, etc.
    7. Boil rice and serve with gombo
    • This recipe will serve 6 people
    Source — La Cuisine Creole
    Prepared by Cha'Qalyn Brown
    Louisiana Anthology
    June 10, 2020

    Tuesday, June 9, 2020

    Butter Biscuits

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbs of sifter flour
    • 1/2 pint of milk
    • 1/2 lb of butter
    • 2 tablespoons of yeast
    • 2 eggs

    Directions

    1. Sift 2 lbs of flour into a bowl.
    2. Add 1/2 lb of butter, 1/2 pint of milk, 2 tablespoons of yeast, and 2 eggs.
    3. Mix.
    4. Set out to rise.
    5. Bake until golden brown.
    Source — Creole Cookery Book
    Prepared by Brennaugh K. Joiner
    Louisiana Anthology
    June 9, 2020

    Butter Biscuits

    Ingredients

    • 2 lbs of sifter flour
    • 1/2 pint of milk
    • 1/2 lb of butter
    • 2 tablespoons of yeast
    • 2 eggs

    Directions

    1. Sift 2 lbs of flour into a bowl.
    2. Add 1/2 lb of butter, 1/2 pint of milk, 2 tablespoons of yeast, and 2 eggs.
    3. Mix.
    4. Set out to rise.
    5. Bake until golden brown.
    Source — Creole Cookery Book
    Prepared by Brennaugh K. Joiner
    Louisiana Anthology
    June 9, 2020

    Spaghetti Bolognese

    Ingredients

    • 1 lb ground beef
    • Spaghetti pasta
    • 1 onion
    • 3 cloves of garlic
    • Salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, sugar
    • 14 oz can of diced tomatoes

    Directions

      Sauce
    1. Chop onion and garlic.
    2. Brown onion and garlic in a pan over medium.
    3. Add ground beef.
    4. Season with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning.
    5. Add 14 oz can of diced tomatoes.
    6. Add sugar to taste.
    7. Simmer while pasta cooks.

      Pasta
    1. Bring water to a boil.
    2. Add salt and pasta.
    3. Cook til al dente.
    4. Serve with sauce.
    Source — Home Recipe
    Prepared by Brennaugh K. Joiner
    Louisiana Anthology
    June 9, 2020.