Monday, March 28, 2022

Rolls for Breakfast

Ingredients

  • 1 quart (4 cups) of flour
  • 1/2 pint (1 cup) of milk
  • 2 well-beaten eggs
  • 1/2 cup of yeast
  • 2 tablespoons of butter
  • Spoonful of salt

Directions

  1. Sift the flour, milk, salt, eggs, and yeast together.
  2. Mix it well, cover it, and sit in a warm place overnight to rise.
  3. Next morning, add the butter and work into the dough.
  4. Mold dough into rolls.
  5. Rub a little butter over each roll and bake.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Tiffany Wyse
Louisiana Anthology
March 28, 2022

Toast Water

Ingredients

  • 2-3 slices from loaf of wheat bread
  • 1 to 1.5 pint of hot water
  • Sugar (optional)

Directions

  1. Cut 2 or 3 slices of from loaf of wheat bread.
  2. Toast them until very brown.
  3. Put the hot slices of bread into a small pitcher.
  4. Pour hot water on top of bread.
  5. If desired, add sugar (better without sugar if stomach is upset).
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Tiffany Wyse
Louisiana Anthology
March 28, 2022

Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits

Ingredients

  • Homemade buttermilk biscuits (1 can of biscuits)
  • 2 tablespoons of butter
  • 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa (Hershey's)
  • 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
  • 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar
  • 2 cups of milk
  • Pinch of kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Bake homemade or can of biscuits in oven.
  2. In medium pan, whisk the flour, cocoa, salt, and sugar until mixed well.
  3. Put pan on medium high then slowly whisk in milk until it is blended well.
  4. Mix in all of the milk and allow the mixture to bubble and thicken.
  5. Whisk in the butter.
  6. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
  7. Split biscuits and pour chocolate gravy on top.
Source — Deep South Dish
Prepared by Tiffany Wyse
Louisiana Anthology
March 28, 2022

Apple and Purple Onion Slaw

Ingredients

  • 1 bag of Tri-Color Coleslaw
  • 1 large apple
  • 1/2 head of purple onion
  • 3/4 cup of mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp honey
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Directions

  1. Combine the mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, honey, salt and pepper in a large bowl.
  2. Slice the apple and purple onion into thin shreds. 
  3. Add sliced apple and onions and the bag of coleslaw into the large bowl.
  4. Toss the dressing and apple slaw together.
  5. Refrigerate before serving and enjoy!
Source — Caroline Cone
Prepared by Caroline Cone
Louisiana Anthology
March 28, 2022

Green Corn on the Cob

Ingredients

  • 4 to 8 ears of fresh corn, husks and silks removed
  • Salt to taste

Directions

  1. Get the green corn as fresh from the field as possible. 
  2. If you desire it boiled on the cob (when it is silked) you must throw is into boiling and salted water.
  3. Corn requires only fifteen minutes boiling; too long boiling takes out the sweetness from the grain. 
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Caroline Cone
Louisiana Anthology
March 28, 2022

Corn on the cob

Pickled Oysters

Ingredients

  • 2 dozen large oysters
  • 1 tbsp. of butter
  • 1/2 cup of vinegar
  • 1 tbsp. of mace
  • 1 dozen cloves
  • 1 tsp. of allspice (or 1 tsp. of pepper)
  • 1 tsp of sweet oil

Directions

  1. Take fine, large oysters and put them over a gentle fire in their own liquor.
  2. Add a small lump of butter to each hundred oysters.
  3. Let the oysters boil for ten minutes. 
  4. When they are plump and white, take them from their liquor with a skimmer and spread them on a thickly folded cloth.
  5. When they are firm and cold, take half as much of their own liquor and half of good vinegar.
  6. Warm the liquid mixture in a stone crock. Put in a layer of oysters, a spoonful of ground mace, a dozen cloves, allspice, and whole pepper alternately.
  7. If to be kept, put them in glass jars with a little sweet oil on top. Stop them and seal tight. If kept in a cool place, they will be good for months.
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Caroline Cone
Louisiana Anthology
March 27, 2022

Oyster Stuffing for Turkey

Ingredients

  • 3 to 4 dozen oysters
  • 1 cup of breadcrumbs
  • 1 cup of beef suet
  • 3 eggs
  • salt to taste
  • pepper taste
  • 1 tbsp. of butter
  • 1 tsp. of mace
  • 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
  • 3 tbsp. of cooking oil

Directions

  1. Take three or four dozen nice, plump oysters and wash them.
  2. Beard the oysters and add them to 1 cup of bread crumbs.
  3. Chop up 1 cup of beef suet.
  4. Combine the beef suet, salt, pepper, cayenne, mace and oyster mixture. Moisten the mixture with three eggs.
  5. Force the meat into cakes and fry them. They are pretty laid around a turkey or chicken.
Source — La Cuisine Creole 
Prepared by Caroline Cone
Louisiana Anthology
March 27, 2022