Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Stewed Oysters (Very Delicate)

Ingredients

  • 3 pints oysters
  • 1 pint rich crème
  • 1 teaspoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon butter

Directions

  1. Strain 3 pints of oysters through a cullender.
  2. Put 1 pint of rich crème into a sauce pan.
  3. Mix in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon flour together separately.
  4. Put crème over low flame and when it begins to heat mix in the flour and butter slowly.
  5. Let simmer for a few minutes (2-5).
  6. Add oysters and cook and cook for 10 minutes.
  7. Serve dish hot to table.
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Broady Rivet
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2022

Crullers

 

Ingredients

  • Four eggs
  • Three cups brown sugar
  • One nutmeg, grated
  • One Tbsp. butter
  • One Tsp. yeast powder
  • flour for rolling

Directions

  1. Combine ingredients and mix until fully incorporated
  2. Roll out dough
  3. Cut out rounds with a biscuit cutter and cut out center with an apple corer
  4. Twist to create shape
  5. Deep fry in lard
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Austin Toys
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Orange Cake

 

Ingredients

  • Four ripe oranges
  • One lb. powdered sugar
  • One lb. unsalted butter
  • 14 oz. flour, sifted
  • Ten eggs

Directions

  1. Roll the oranges under your hand until soft
  2. Zest the oranges
  3. Cut the oranges and juice through a strainer
  4. Mix the sugar and orange juice
  5. Add butter to sugar mixture and and stir until light
  6. Beat the eggs
  7. Add the eggs and flour a little at a time to the butter sugar mixture
  8. Beat together
  9. Butter a large shallow pan and put in mixture
  10. Bake at 400 F until cooked through

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Austin Toys
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Blackberry Pie

 

Ingredients

  • One quart blackberries
  • Pie pastry dough for shell and cover
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup water
  • One Tsp. flour
  • 1/4 Tsp. salt
  • Half a nutmeg, grated

Directions

  1. Pick the berries clean and rinse in cold water
  2. Butter pie dish and line with shell
  3. Put in blackberries 1/2" deep and add water
  4. Add brown sugar, salt, flour, and nutmeg evenly around blackberries
  5. Cover with pie pastry and press edges of cover and shell together
  6. Trim edges neatly and cut a slit in the cover
  7. Bake at 425 F for 45 minutes
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Austin Toys
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022

Instant Pot Coq au Vin

 

Ingredients

  • Four chicken leg quarters or six chicken thighs (bone-in) 
  • Salt, ground pepper
  • Two cups dry white wine
  • One bunch thyme, divided in half
  • Four oz. thick-cut bacon, cut crosswise into 3/4" pieces
  • Eight oz. shiitake mushrooms, destemmed and torn in three pieces
  • Four Tbsp. unsalted butter, divided in half
  • Eight oz. peeled carrots, cut into 4" pieces
  • Four peeled shallots
  • Two smashed garlic cloves
  • Two Tbsp. white wine vinegar
  • One Tbsp. all-purpose flour
  • handful of chopped parsley
  • Instant pot or pre

Directions

  1. Pat chicken dry and season heavily with salt and pepper.
  2. Transfer chicken to resealable bag or baking dish
  3. Pour wine over and add half bunch of thyme
  4. Turn to coat, seal or cover, and let sit at room temp while prepping other ingredients
  5. Cook bacon in non-stick skillet, over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until brown and crisp but all of the fat has not rendered out
  6. Transfer to a plate leaving drippings in pan
  7. Add mushrooms to bacon drippings in pan, season with salt 
  8. Cook, tossing occasionally, until tender and golden brown but not crisp
  9. Scrape mushrooms into Instant Pot insert and reserve pan
  10. Remove chicken from marinade, reserve marinade, discard thyme sprigs, and pat chicken dry
  11. Heat two Tbsp. butter in reserved pan over medium heat
  12. When butter is foaming add chicken, skin down, and cook, undisturbed, until dark golden brown
  13. Turn chicken onto flesh side and cook until pale golden brown
  14. Nestle chicken into pot insert
  15. Pour off all but one Tbsp. drippings
  16. Add carrots, shallots, and garlic
  17. Season lightly with salt and cook, tossing often, until shallots have spots of golden brown
  18. Add carrots, shallots, garlic, and half of the cooked bacon to the pot insert
  19. On medium heat pour vinegar into pan
  20. Cook, scraping pan with a non-metal spoon to deglaze, until syrupy
  21. Add wine marinade and remaining thyme to pan, and simmer until reduce by half
  22. Pour liquid over chicken and seal the pressure cooker.
  23. Set pressure cooker to high for fifteen minutes and let natural release for ten minutes
  24. Smash remaining butter and flour together with a fork until well combine
  25. Unseal pressure cooker and transfer chicken and vegetables to a platter or plates leaving liquid in pot
  26. Discard thyme sprigs and add butter-flour mixture to liquid
  27. Set pressure cooker to "Sauté" setting and bring to a simmer to thicken
  28. Taste and adjust seasoning
  29. Pour sauce over and around chicken and vegetables
  30. Sprinkle over remaining bacon and serve


Source — Bon Appetit
Prepared by Austin Toys
Louisiana Anthology
July 19,2022

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

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.
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