Corn Meal Cakes

 Ingredients

• 1 pound of sugar
• 1/2 pound of butter
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 pound of meal
• 4 eggs
• 1 cupful of flour

Directions

1. Sift the meal.
2. Take one cupful of meal and mix it with a cupful of flour.
3. Add in the rest of the ingredients and proceed to beat up the mixture.
4. Use a spoon to drop the mixture on greased pans and cook in quick oven.

— Miss Mary Wilkinson

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samuel Pitts
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Corn Meal Cakes

 Ingredients

• 1 pound of sugar
• 1/2 pound of butter
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 pound of meal
• 4 eggs
• 1 cupful of flour

Directions

1. Sift the meal.
2. Take one cupful of meal and mix it with a cupful of flour.
3. Add in the rest of the ingredients and proceed to beat up the mixture.
4. Use a spoon to drop the mixture on greased pans and cook in quick oven.

— Miss Mary Wilkinson

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samuel Pitts
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Oyster Gumbo Fele

Ingredients

• Four dozen oysters
• One tablespoon of lard
  
• One tablespoon of flour
  
• One small onion
• One bottle of liquor (of your choice)
• One teaspoon of Fele
  
• 3 quarts water
• 1/2 teaspoon of parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes
• Salt to taste
  

Directions

1. Take four dozen oysters and strain off the liquor through a sieve.
   
2. Mince small onion very fine.
   
3. Put the lard in a pan over medium-high heat.
   
4. When hot, add the flour and onion and fry until very brown.
5. Next, fry the oysters for two or three minutes in a separate pan.
6. Add your liquor plus enough water to make the quantity of soup required.
7. Boil and skim.
8. Add parsley, red pepper and salt to taste.
9. Put in the oysters, and when it comes to a boil, mix one heaping teaspoonful of Fele in a little cold water.  
10. Let it cook two minutes and send to the table.

Source — New Orleans Cookbook
Prepared by Gunnar Peterson
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Banana Bread

 Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas (very soft)
• 1/3 cups of melted butter
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 1 large egg, well beaten
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• Pinch of salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 305 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mash bananas.
3. Add butter.
4. Mix in baking soda, sugar, flour, beaten egg, vanilla extract, salt.
5. Pour into buttered loaf pan.
6. Cook for about 50 minutes (or until able to stick toothpick into loaf and it comes out clean).

Source — Personal Recipe
Prepared by Brianna Garcia
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Banana Bread

 Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas (very soft)
• 1/3 cups of melted butter
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 1 large egg, well beaten
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• Pinch of salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 305 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mash bananas.
3. Add butter.
4. Mix in baking soda, sugar, flour, beaten egg, vanilla extract, salt.
5. Pour into buttered loaf pan.
6. Cook for about 50 minutes (or until able to stick toothpick into loaf and it comes out clean).

Source — Personal Recipe
Prepared by Brianna Garcia
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Oyster Gumbo Fele

Ingredients

• Four dozen oysters
• One tablespoon of lard
  
• One tablespoon of flour
  
• One small onion
• One bottle of liquor (of your choice)
• One teaspoon of Fele
  
• 3 quarts water
• 1/2 teaspoon of parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes
• Salt to taste
  

Directions

1. Take four dozen oysters and strain off the liquor through a sieve.
   
2. Mince small onion very fine.
   
3. Put the lard in a pan over medium-high heat.
   
4. When hot, add the flour and onion and fry until very brown.
5. Next, fry the oysters for two or three minutes in a separate pan.
6. Add your liquor plus enough water to make the quantity of soup required.
7. Boil and skim.
8. Add parsley, red pepper and salt to taste.
9. Put in the oysters, and when it comes to a boil, mix one heaping teaspoonful of Fele in a little cold water.  
10. Let it cook two minutes and send to the table.

Source — New Orleans Cookbook
Prepared by Gunnar Peterson
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021

Potato Puffs

 Ingredients

• 7-8 potatoes
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 1 cup of milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Boil potatoes until soft.
3. Mash potatoes.
4. Mix beaten eggs into potatoes.
5. Add butter, milk.
6. Pour into pan.
7. Place into oven until golden brown.
8. Let cool, serve.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Brianna Garcia
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021