Roll Jelly Cake

 

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs 
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 pack of yeast powder
• Jelly of your liking
• Powdered sugar

Instructions:

1. Add 3 eggs into a bowl and beat well.
2. Add 1 cup of sugar and mix in. 
3. Add 1 cup of flour and fold in. 
4. Add 1 pack of Yeast powder and mix well.
5. Pour batter into a shallow square dish.
6. Bake in oven at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until done.
7. Place cake on parchment paper after removing it from the square dish.
8. Spread jelly onto hot cake.
9. Immediately roll while still hot.
10. Place into fridge to cool 
11. When cool remove cake and peel off parchment paper.
12. Dust with powdered sugar. 
13. Serve in Slices. Enjoy!

Tavern Biscuits

 Hearty Tavern Biscuits. Below you will find a recipe that makes 146 biscuits. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 3lbs of Flour
• 1/2 lb of brown sugar
• 4 glasses* of wine (20 oz)
• 8 glasses* of sweet cream (40 oz)
• 1 lb of butter
• 2oz of allspice*
• 1/2 oz of mace*
• 1/2 oz of cinnamon

* 1 glass= 5oz

* Allspice is a spice made from dried berries of a plant known as the Pimenta Diolea.

* Mace is a aromatic spice that grown on the tropical nutmeg tree. Sister spice of nutmeg.

Instructions:

1. Mix together all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl: flour, brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, mace.
2. Next, add wet ingredients: (wine, sweet cream, butter).
3. Mix together until a firm dough is formed.
4. Cut out around 146 biscuits. This depends on how large you want your biscuits to be.
5. Bake biscuits on a tin sheet at 375 degrees for 11-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Hominy Cakes

 Hominy Cakes are a savory treat made from the heart! Read below for ingredients and instructions.

Ingredients:

• Hominy*
• Salt
• Butter
• Cream
• 1-2 Eggs
• Flour

*Hominy is made from dried maize kernels that are treated with an alkali process called nixtamalization. 

Steps:

1. Take your hominy and add it to a bowl and season it with salt to taste.
2. Next, mix the salted hominy with 1-2 eggs.
3. Now, add butter, preferably melted.
4. Finally, add cream and flour until it reaches a dough like consistency.
5. Shape hominy dough into balls, and then flatten into small patties.
6. Fry the patties on a griddle and serve them hot.
7. Enjoy!

Grated Beef

Ingredients

• Lump of Smoked beef
• Bread
• Butter

Directions

1. Cut a lump of smoked beef
2. Put in oven until and dry it out until perfectly hard
3. Grate to fine powder
4. Serve with this slices of bread-and-butter

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Luke Frederick
Louisiana Anthology
May 3, 2023

Lemon Ice Cream

Ingredients

• 1 quart of milk
  
• 2 lemons
• Tumbler of sugar

Directions

1. Bring the quart of milk to a boil then put in the fridge.
2. Squeeze the juice form the lemons into the sugar and mix.
3. When the cream is cold stir well into the sugar and freeze immediately.
4. Once frozen it is ready to serve. 

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Camden Bigler
Louisiana Anthology
May 1, 2023

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 large smooth orange of a deep color
  
• 1 lime
• 1/4 lb of powdered sugar
• 1/4 lb of fresh butter
• 8 eggs
• 1/2 glass of mixed wine and brandy
• 1 tea spoon of rosewater
• 5 ounces of flour

Directions

1. Make a paste by mixing 5 ounces of flour with 1/4 lb of fresh butter and lay the paste in a buttered dish. 
2. Mix the rest of the ingredients except the powdered sugar and pour over the paste.
3. Bake 30 minuets in a moderate oven. 
4. When done cooking sprinkle powered sugar over the top and ready to serve.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Camden Bigler
Louisiana Anthology
May 1, 2023

Taco Soup

Ingredients

• 2 lbs ground beef
  
• 2 cans of corn
• 2 cans of black beans
• 1 can of tomato sauce
• 2 cans of diced tomatos 
• 1 package of taco seasoning
• 1 container of pico de Gallo
• 1 cup of water

Directions

1. Brown the 2 lbs of ground beef and season with the taco seasoning.
2. Add in all the other ingredients to a large pot adding the 1 cup of water last.
3. Stir thoroughly until all ingredients are evenly mixed together.
4. Cook on stovetop on high for 3 hours stirring every 15 minutes.
5. When done cooking let cool 30 minutes and serve with shredded cheese on top. (Optional)

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Camden Bigler
Louisiana Anthology
May 1, 2023