Soupe À la Julienne (Julienne Soup)

 

Original French Recipe

Pour la julienne il faut couper des carottes, navets, poireaux, céleri blanc en petits filets. Ajouter des petits morceaux de choux-fleurs, des pois verts un peu de persil hâchez-les faire frire dans du beurre sans les brunir — ajouter du bouillon de bœuf laisser mijoter à un petit feu deux heures, par assiettée de soupe, il faut calculer deux cuillerées de legumes coupes. Ou peut le faire au maigre, a 1’eau aulieu de bouillon, on y ajoute une cuillerée de sucre si l’on veut, ce qui est délicieux c’est du céleri cuit avec un peu de bon bouillon comme légume et mangé avec le poulet.

Notre cuisinière coupait un peu de choux dans la julienne et y mettait un peu de sucre, c’est très-bon.

Ingredients

• Carrots
• Turnips
• Leeks
• White celery
• Cauliflower
• Green peas
• Parsley
• Butter
• Beef broth or water
• 1 tsp Sugar (optional)

Directions

1. Cut carrots, turnips, leeks, and white celery into small fillets.
2. Cut cauliflower into small pieces.
3. Heat butter in a pot at medium-low heat.
4. Add cauliflower, green peas, and parsley to heated butter.
5. Fry without browning.
6. Add vegetable fillets.
7. Add beef brother (or water) to cover. 
8. Simmer on low heat for two hours.

Added Notes

1. Per plate of soup, calculate two spoonfuls of cut vegetables.
2. You can do it lean, in water instead of broth.
3. Add a spoonful of sugar if you want, which is delicious.
4. It's celery cooked with a little good broth as a vegetable and eaten with the chicken.
5. Our cook cut a little cabbage in the julienne and put a little sugar in it, it's very good.

Source — Cooking in Old Créole Days
Prepared by Jon-Mikah Hart
Louisiana Anthology
Sept 30, 2022

Thornton Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• Two sticks of butter, melted
• Four eggs
• Two tbsp. of milk
• Two tbsp. vanilla extract
• Three and one-half cups of self rising flour

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.

Source — Grandma's Recipe Book
Prepared by Colson Thornton
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022

Pineapple Sponge

Ingredients

• One small pineapples, or a can of pineapples
• One cup of sugar, less when using a can of pineapples
• One and one-half cup of water
• One-half package of gelatin
• Four egg whites
• Cream

Directions

1. Soak gelatin in half-cup of water for two hours.
2. Chop up pineapple.
3. Mix pineapple and cupfuls of water and sugar in saucepan.
4. Let simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add gelatin to mixture and strain into a tin basin.
6. Set basin into ice water or refridgerator.
7. Stir egg whites, beaten to a stiff froth[foam], when the mixture thickens.
8. Pour into a mould and let harden.
9. Serve with cream.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Colson Thornton
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022

Cornstarch Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cup of creamed butter
• One-half cup of sugar
• One-half cup of milk
• One-half tsp. almond extract
• One-half cup cornstarch
• One and one-half cup of flour
• One-half tsp. of soda
• One-helf tsp. cream of tartar
• Six egg whites

Directions

1. Mix in the order given above.
2. Bake.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Colson Thornton
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022

Consomme of Beef and Fowl

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of lean beef
• 1 Fowl
• Stock or plain broth
• 2 carrots, 2 onions,
• 1 head of celery or a pinch of celery seed
• Thyme
• 1 whole pepper
• Mace(spice)
• 1 Bay Leaf
• 1 egg

Directions

1. Half roast the fowl and cut into pieces.
2. Put fowl into a saucepan filled with the broth.
3. Skim the broth and add in vegetables, spices, and the bay leaf.
4. Let the mixture simmer for 3 to 4 hours.
5. Strain through a coarse cloth, free the mixture entirely of fat.
6. Clarify with the whites of the egg.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Colson Thornton
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022

Peasant Bread

 

Ingredients

• Four cups of flour
• Two teaspoons of salt
• Two teaspoons of sugar
• Two teaspoons of active dry yeast
• Two cups of water (warm)
• One tablespoon of butter

Directions

1. Mix the dry ingredients together
2. Pour in the water
3. Mix until combined
4. Cover your bowl and let the dough rise
5. Spread butter inside two over-safe bowls
6. Wait until the dough has doubled in size
7. Divide the dough into halves 
8. Place the halves into the greased bowls
9. Let it rise for 30 minutes.
10. Heat oven to 350 Fahrenheit
11. Cook the dough for 30 mins
    
12. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes before slicing

 

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Donnie Underwood
Louisiana Anthology
September 15, 2022

Remnants of Soup Meat with Onions

 

Ingredients

• Soup Meat
• Onions (Chopped)
• Saltwater
• Butter or Lard
• Flour
• Spices of choice

Directions

1. Cut the meat into thin slices.
2. Saturate in the saltwater
3. Add butter to a hot pan
4. Add chopped onions to the butter
5. Cool the onions until brown
6. Put the meat in the pan and cover
7. Turn the meat after frying for a while
8. When both sides are brown, remove
9. Add a small amount of water and flour to the butter remaining in the pan
10. Stir until thick, then put the sauce over the meat

 

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Donnie Underwood
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022