Ingredients
- Four apples
- Butter
- Nutmeg
Directions
- Pare, core, and slice the apples.
- Put the apples into a saucepan.
- Add enough water to keep them from burning.
- Stew them until soft and tender.
- Mash to a paste.
- Add nutmeg and butter for sweetness
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Apple Sauce for Roasted Goose
Cullis
Ingredients
- Six pounds of sliced lean veal
- Two pounds of lean ham
- Two ounces of butter
- Handful of chopped mushrooms
- Three onions
- One carrot
- Sweet herbs
- Rind of a lemon
- One half teaspoon of mixed allspice, mace, and cloves
- Four quarts of stock
Directions
- Put all ingredients into a stewpan and let it brown.
- Add four quarts of stock and let boil three to four hours.
- Strain off the stock.
- Add a brown roux to the dish.
- Allow to boil for ten minutes, stirring constantly
- Pass through a straining cloth.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Cameron Hughes
Prepared by Cameron Hughes
Louisiana Anthology
April 6, 2022
April 6, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Special Deviled Eggs
Ingredients
- 6 peeled boiled eggs
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 tablespoon mustard
- 1 tablespoon pickle relish
- Tony's Chachere's seasoning
Directions
- Cut boiled eggs in halves, scoop yolks out and put into to a bowl.
- Break egg yolks up and add mayonnaise, mustard and relish.
- When mixed together, add a scoop of the mixture into each egg white half evenly.
- Add Tony's seasoning on top for spice and color.
- Keep chilled until ready to serve.
Source — Personal Recipe
Clear Pea Soup
Ingredients
- 2 quarts good beef or veal soup stock
- 1 quart young green peas
- Heads of lettuce
- 1 sprig of mint
- Salt
- Pepper
Directions
- Boil soup stock the day before making this soup.
- Add peas, lettuce heads and mint to soup stock.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Economical Green Pea Family Soup with Egg Dumplings
Ingredients
- 1 quart shelled English peas
- 1 veal bone or 1/2 a chicken
- 1 gallon water
- Muslin bag
- 2 eggs
- 1 spoonful milk
- Flour
- 1 spoonful butter
- Lettuce heads for flavor (optional) must be taken out before dumplings are added
Directions
- Boil veal bone or chicken in gallon of water for 2 hours.
- Place 8 ounces of peas into a muslin bag and into stock until peas are perfectly done.
- Skim out peas, meat and bone and add the rest of the peas to boil.
- While those peas cook, pour the peas from muslin bag into a pan and mash smoothly.
- Add eggs, spoonful milk, flour and spoonful butter to the mashed peas.
- Make the batter into small round dumplings and gently drop into soup.
- When dumplings boil to top the soup is ready to serve.
Chicken Gombo with Oysters
Ingredients
- 1 young chicken or 1/2 of a grown chicken
- 1 quart of fresh green okras
- 1 slice of ham (1/4 pound)
- 2 dozen fine oysters
- Salt
- Pepper
- Flour
- Rice to serve with
- 1/2 gallon of water
Directions
- Cut up chicken and roll in salt, pepper and flour.
- Fry chicken in lard or drippings until it is a nice brown.
- Take chicken out and place in pot to boil.
- Cut up okra and fry in the same lard or drippings.
- Place okra and slice of ham in with chicken.
- Pour 1/2 gallon of boiling water over ingredients and let boil down to 3 pints.
- About 10 minutes before serving, pour oysters and 1/2 pint of their liquid into pot.
- Let everything come to a good boil and serve with rice.
Best Ever Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups of flower
- 1 1/2 cups of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon of buttermilk
- 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 cup of walnuts
Directions
- Beat eggs.
- Mash bananas.
- Coarsely chop walnuts.
- Grease and flower 9 x 5-inch baking loaf pan.
- Combine flour, sugar, and salt.
- Add baking soda to buttermilk.
- Stir in buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
- Add flower, sugar, and salt and mix well.
- Fold in bananas and walnuts.
- Pour mixture into loaf pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the bread splits.
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