Oyster Gombo with Filee

Ingredients

• Whole chicken
• Fifty Oyster
• Half a pound ham
• Two onions
• Lard
• Flour
• Sassafras leaves
• Teaspoon of flour
• Gravy

Directions

1. Cut up onion and fry in lard
2. Prepare gravy with flour
3. Cut up chicken and ham and mix in with onion to fry
4. Cook till brown
5. Put contents in a pint of boiling water until chicken is in pieces almost
6. After half an hour, put oysters in the boiling water with other contents
7. Stir in sassafras leaves and continue until desired thickness
8. Remove from fire
9. Serve.

Source —La Cuisine Creole

Prepared by Travis Kelly
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Ten eggs
• One pound of sugar
• Half a pound of flour
• One tablespoon of baking powder
• Lemon

Directions

1. Beat each egg separately.
2. Pour sugar, flour, and baking powder into a container.
3. Flavor with lemon.
4. Add the eggs in last.
5. Bake in the oven.

Source —New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Travis Kelly
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Orange Pie

Ingredients

• Three Oranges
• Sugar
• Pie Crust
• Eight Eggs
• Half a cup powdered sugar
• Half a cup of lemon juice
• One lemon

Directions

1. Slice, peel, and pit three oranges.
2. Pour sugar into a container for the oranges.
3. Sit oranges in sugar and ensure they are covered adequately. Sit overnight.
4. Put oranges into the pie crust.
5. Take egg yolks, powdered sugar, lemon juice, and the rind of the lemon and put over heat. Stir until it becomes thick.
6. Beat the egg whites until they froth.
7. Pour onto pie and bake.

-Mrs. Adler

Source-New Orleans Cook Book.

Prepared by Travis Kelly
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Sweet Pickles

Ingredients

• 9 Cucumbers
• 1/2 peck [19 cups] of Green Tomatoes
• 1 Head Cabbage
• 12 Seed Onions
• 3 Green Peppers
• 1 oz of Black Mustard Seeds
• 1 oz of White Mustard Seeds
• 1/2 oz Turmeric
• 1oz Celery Seeds
• 1/2 Box Mustard
• 1 lb of Sugar
• Cider Vinegar
• Salt

Directions 

1. Slice the green tomatoes.
2. Place the cucumbers, cabbage, seed onions, green peppers and sliced tomatoes in a jar alternately with salt and let stand over night.
3. Mix the white and black mustard seeds, turmeric, celery seeds, mustard and sugar with cider vinegar.
4.  Let the mix come to a boil.
5. Put in a jar and seal.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Sofia Urbina
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Lemon Cream Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Butter
• 3 cups of Sugar
• 3 cups of Flour
• 6 Eggs
• 2 Lemons
• 2 tsp. of Dixie Baking Powder
• 2 cups of Sweet Milk
• 7 tbsp. of Cornstarch 

Directions

Cake

1. Mix one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs and two teaspoons of baking powder.
2. Bake the mixture in four layers.

Filling

1. Lightly beat two eggs and one cup of sugar together.
2. Boil two cups of sweet milk.
3. When the milk comes to a boil, stir in seven spoonfuls of cornstarch wet up in cold milk
4. Stir in the eggs and sugar into the mixture and let it cook for a moment.
5. Pour out in a dish and flavor with the juice and grated rind of two lemons.
6. Spread the filling between the layers of the cake.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Sofia Urbina
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022;

Oreo Balls

Ingredients

• 1 package of Oreos
• 1 package of cream cheese
• 1 package of chocolate bark (white or dark)
• Optional: colored chocolate wafers  

Directions

1. Crush a whole package of Oreos using a food processor.
2. Mix crushed Oreos with 1 package of softened cream cheese.
3. Form small balls (golf ball sized or smaller).
4. Place balls on a plate and insert a toothpick through the top. 
5. Freeze balls for up to 1 hour.
6. Melt the chocolate bark (using a double boiler is recommended).
7. Dip the balls completely in melted chocolate.
8. Let dry on a plate.
9. Optional: decorate the balls by drizzling melted colored chocolate wafers over the balls. 

Source —  My Mom
Prepared by Allyson Foster
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Rice Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Rice
• 2 cups of Water
• 2 cups of Whole Milk
• 1 1/2 cups of Sugar
• 1 Cinnamon Stick
• 1 tsp of Vanilla
• Ground Cinnamon

Directions

1. In a pot, add two cups of water, one cup of rice and a cinnamon stick.
2. Cook the rice at low heat until it absorbs most of the water.
3. Slowly add the milk and the sugar to the mixture.
4. Increase the temperature and stir until the mixture thickens.
5. Add vanilla for more flavor, lower the temperature and cook for two minutes.
6. Remove the mixture from the fire and let it cool.
7. Pour the mixture into a cup and add ground cinnamon on top.

Prepared by Sofia Urbina
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022