Thursday, September 30, 2021

Soft-shelled Crab, Fried

Ingredients

  • Soft-shelled crab
  • Saltine crackers
  • Lard
  • Salt

Directions

  1. Clean the crabs properly.
  2. They must be dried carefully before frying, or they will not brown well.
  3. Dip them into rolled cracker.
  4. Fry them in hot lard salted. 
  5. Serve with any favorite sauce.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Bryce Ditto
Louisiana Anthology
September 30, 2021

Soft-shelled Crab, Fried

Ingredients

  • Soft-shelled crab
  • Saltine crackers
  • Lard
  • Salt

Directions

  1. Clean the crabs properly.
  2. They must be dried carefully before frying, or they will not brown well.
  3. Dip them into rolled cracker.
  4. Fry them in hot lard salted. 
  5. Serve with any favorite sauce.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Bryce Ditto
Louisiana Anthology
September 30, 2021

Chicken Soup, Yellow and Very Rich

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds of veal
  • 1 pound of either beef or lamb
  • 1 small chicken, cut up
  • 3 quarts of water
  • 1 leek or two onions
  • 1 large carrot or two small carrots
  • 2 tbsp. of salt
  • 1 tbsp. of pepper
  • 1 tbsp. of butter worked in flour
  • Sprigs of parsley OR 1 egg

Directions

  1. Take two pounds of veal, half as much beef or lamb, and one small chicken cut up; boil them in three quarts of water.
  2. Skim off all the scum as it rises.
  3. Slice a leek or two onions.
  4. Grate a large carrot or two small ones.
  5. Put all these to the soup.
  6. Add two tablespoonfuls of salt and one of pepper.
  7. Let it boil gently for two hours.
  8. Add a spoonful of butter worked in flour.
  9. Cover this for fifteen minutes, and serve in a covered pot.

Chicken

  1. Take the chicken into a deep dish, put over it butter, pepper, and sprigs of parsley.
OR
  1. You may chop the chicken up.
  2. Season with pepper, salt, butter, and an egg.
  3. Form into balls.
  4. Roll them in flour, and drop them in a few minutes before serving.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Bryce Ditto
Louisiana Anthology
September 30, 2021

Chicken Soup, Yellow and Very Rich

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds of veal
  • 1 pound of either beef or lamb
  • 1 small chicken, cut up
  • 3 quarts of water
  • 1 leek or two onions
  • 1 large carrot or two small carrots
  • 2 tbsp. of salt
  • 1 tbsp. of pepper
  • 1 tbsp. of butter worked in flour
  • Sprigs of parsley OR 1 egg

Directions

  1. Take two pounds of veal, half as much beef or lamb, and one small chicken cut up; boil them in three quarts of water.
  2. Skim off all the scum as it rises.
  3. Slice a leek or two onions.
  4. Grate a large carrot or two small ones.
  5. Put all these to the soup.
  6. Add two tablespoonfuls of salt and one of pepper.
  7. Let it boil gently for two hours.
  8. Add a spoonful of butter worked in flour.
  9. Cover this for fifteen minutes, and serve in a covered pot.

Chicken

  1. Take the chicken into a deep dish, put over it butter, pepper, and sprigs of parsley.
OR
  1. You may chop the chicken up.
  2. Season with pepper, salt, butter, and an egg.
  3. Form into balls.
  4. Roll them in flour, and drop them in a few minutes before serving.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Bryce Ditto
Louisiana Anthology
September 30, 2021

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Beef Enchiladas

Ingredients

  • 1 pound of hamburger meat
  • 1 packet of taco seasoning
  • 1 & 1/2 cups of shredded Mexican blend cheese 
  • 2 cans of red enchilada sauce
  • 1 pack of 10 flour tortillas

Directions

  1. Brown hamburger meat and drain grease.
  2. Add in taco seasoning.
  3. Heat up enchilada sauce in a small pot.
  4. Combine hamburger meat, handful of cheese, and a tablespoon of enchilada sauce into a tortilla, and wrap.
  5. Repeat 10 times aligning the enchiladas in a 13x9 inch pan.
  6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for 20 minutes.
  7. Sprinkle cheese on top in the last remaining 8 minutes of cooking. 
Source — Emily Cook
Prepared by Emily Cook
Louisiana Anthology
September 28, 2021

Beef Enchiladas

Ingredients

  • 1 pound of hamburger meat
  • 1 packet of taco seasoning
  • 1 & 1/2 cups of shredded Mexican blend cheese 
  • 2 cans of red enchilada sauce
  • 1 pack of 10 flour tortillas

Directions

  1. Brown hamburger meat and drain grease.
  2. Add in taco seasoning.
  3. Heat up enchilada sauce in a small pot.
  4. Combine hamburger meat, handful of cheese, and a tablespoon of enchilada sauce into a tortilla, and wrap.
  5. Repeat 10 times aligning the enchiladas in a 13x9 inch pan.
  6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for 20 minutes.
  7. Sprinkle cheese on top in the last remaining 8 minutes of cooking. 
Source — Emily Cook
Prepared by Emily Cook
Louisiana Anthology
September 28, 2021

Oysters Gombos with Filee No. 1

Ingredients

  • Full baked chicken
  • Fifty raw oysters 
  • Half a pound of ham
  • Two white onions
  • 2 tablespoons of file seasoning
  • 1 & 1/2 cups of flour

Directions

  1. Shred chicken.
  2. Brown flour in a cast iron skillet.
  3. White in 1/2 a cup of water, creating a gravy-like density.
  4. Dice the two large onions, and brown them with butter in a small skillet. 
  5. Put everything BUT oysters into a large pot to boil, and let boil for 10 minutes. 
  6. Simmer gumbo for 1 hour.
  7. Toss oysters in the pot for the last 20 minutes of cooking. 
Source — La Cuisine Creole 
Prepared by Emily Cook
Louisiana Anthology
September 28, 2021