Monday, December 20, 2021

Lapland Cakes

Ingredients

  • Five eggs
  • One pint of new cream
  • One and a half pints of flour

Directions

  1. Beat the five eggs very lightly with one pint of new cream.
  2. Beat in well one and a half pints of flour.
  3. Bake in tins or cups on a quick fire.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Noah Dryden
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Pickled Beef

Ingredients

  • Pickle
  • Beef
  • Salt
  • Sixteen gallons of water
  • Twenty four  pounds of salt
  • Six pounds of brown sugar
  • Eight ounces of sodium nitrate

Directions

Beef

  1. Sprinkle beef with salt.
  2. Let it steam.
  3. After twenty four hours pack into a barrel [pot].
  4. Cover with Pickle. 

Pickle

  1. Fill a pot with sixteen gallons of water.
  2. Add the salt, brown sugar and sodium nitrate. 
  3. Let the mixture stand cold. 
  4. Pour over beef. 
  5. Every four to five minutes, boil over again and add a little of each ingredient. 
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Casey A. Lambka
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Corn Souffle

Ingredients

  • 2 cans of cream corn
  • 8 oz of sour cream
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 box Jiffy Corn Bread mix

Directions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Melt butter.
  3. Beat eggs.
  4. Combine all ingredients, mixing one at a time. 
  5. Bake in the oven for 50-60 min.
Source — Tammy Lastinger
Prepared by Ashleigh Borel
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Salad Dressing

 Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 1 Tbsp dry mustard
  • 2 eggs, well beaten
  • pepper
  • salt
  • 8 tsp cider vinegar

Directions

  1. Cream together butter and mustard.
  2. Slowly stir in eggs.
  3. Add vinegar.
  4. Cook in double boiler, stirring continuously.
  5. Pepper and salt to taste.
Prepared by Chase Echols
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Gombo de Crabes (Crab Gumbo)

Ingrédients

  • 12-15 crabes
  • 1/2 lb de veau ou de volaille
  • L'eau
  • Jambon
  • Farine
  • Le beurre
  • Riz

Les Directions

  1. Coupez votre veau ou votre volaille en tranches. Commencez la cuisson dans une casserole sur le côté.
  2. Faire du riz.
  3. Eplucher les crabes et les faire revenir dans une poêle avec du beurre quelques minutes.
  4. Faire un roux avec le beurre et la farine, ajouter de l'eau pour faire une sauce.
  5. Verser la chair de crabe et le veau dans la sauce.
  6. Faites frire du jambon et ajoutez-le au gombo.
  7. Servir sur du riz.

Ingredients

  • 12-15 Crabs
  • 1/2 lb of veal or poultry
  • Water
  • Ham
  • Flour
  • Butter
  • Rice

Directions

  1. Cut your veal or poultry into slices. Start cooking in a pan on the side.
  2. Make rice.
  3. Peel crabs and brown in a pan with butter for a few minutes.
  4. Make a roux with the butter and flour, add water to make a sauce.
  5. Pour crab meat and veal into the sauce.
  6. Fry some ham and add to gumbo.
  7. Serve over rice.
Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days
Prepared by Ashleigh Borel
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Whigs

 Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound butter
  • 1/2 pound sugar
  • 6 eggs, well beaten
  • 2 pounds flour
  • 1 pint new milk
  • salt
  • 1 gill (1/2 cup) good yeast

Directions

  1. Cream together butter and sugar.
  2. Stir in eggs.
  3. Sift in flour.
  4. Add milk and a little salt.
  5. Once mixed well, add yeast.
  6. Bake in small tins or muffin rings.
  7. Serve for breakfast or with tea.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Chase Echols
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021

Cold Hash

Ingredients

  • One whole chicken
  • Butter
  • Pepper
  • Salt

Directions

  1. Boil whole chicken in large pot, until tender.
  2. Take chicken out of pot and remove all bones.
  3. Finely chop chicken.
  4. Place chicken back in pot with just enough liquid to keep moist.
  5. Season with butter, salt, and pepper.
  6. Let it simmer for a few minutes.
  7. Place in a dish to cool.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Casey A. Lambka
Louisiana Anthology
December 20, 2021