Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

 Ingredients 

  • Two cups of crushed pretzels
  • Three fourths cup butter, melted
  • Three tablespoons of white sugar
  • Eight ounces of cream cheese, softened
  • One cup of white sugar
  • Eight ounces of Cool Whip dessert topping, thawed
  • Two, three ounce packages of strawberry flavored Jello-O
  • Three, ten ounce packages frozen strawberries
  • Two cups of boiling water

Directions 

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Stir pretzels, butter and three tablespoons of sugar together. Mix well and press the ingredients in bottom of 13" x 9" baking dish.
  3. Bake 8-10 minutes. Let cool.
  4. Combine cream cheese and cup of sugar in a large mixing bowl. Fold in cool whip. Spread mixture over cooled crust.
  5. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Stir in frozen strawberries and allow to set briefly. 
  6. Spread over cream cheese mixture when mixture is about the consistency of egg whites. Refrigerate util set. 
Source — Allrecipes
Prepared by Emily Worthey
Louisiana Anthology
December 21, 2021

Okra or Gombo, to Cook

 Ingredients 

  • One pint of okra
  • One pint of skinned, ripe tomatoes
  • One onion
  • One tablespoon of butter
  • One tablespoon of water
  • A pinch of salt and pepper 

Directions 

  1. Chop up okra into fine pieces. 
  2. Add tomatoes, onion, butter, and a pinch of salt and pepper. 
  3. Mix water into ingredients. 
  4. Stew ingredients together until tender. 
  5. Serve with choice of meat or poultry. 
Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Emily Worthey
Louisiana Anthology
December 21, 2021

Tea Cakes

 Ingredients 

  • Three pints of flour
  • Three eggs
  • One pint of sugar
  • One half teaspoon of baking soda
  • Three forths cup of milk
  • One tablespoon of butter

Directions 

  1. Mix baking soda into milk. 
  2. Add eggs, sugar, milk, and butter to flour. 
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Emily Worthey
Louisiana Anthology
December 21, 2021

Italian Cream

Ingredients 

  • Three pints of cream
  • Six ounces of powdered load sugar
  • Two large lemons, juiced
  • Two, twenty ounce glasses of white wine
  • Two ounces of Isinglass
  • Four teaspoons of water 

Directions 

  1. Mix two pints of cream cheese, powered sugar, lemon juice, and wine into a bowl.  
  2. Add one pint of cream cheese to the ingredients. Stir the mixture very hard.
  3. Boil two ounces of isinglass with the four teaspoons of water. Reduce until it is half. 
  4. Stir the lukewarm isinglass into the other ingredients. Put them into a glass dish to congeal. 
Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Emily Worthey
Louisiana Anthology
December 21, 2021

Crockpot Roast and Gravy

 Ingredients

  • One pork roast
  • One ranch seasoning packet
  • One au jus seasoning
  • One-half cup of water
  • One stick of butter

Directions

  1. Season the roast with whatever you see fit. (Tony's seasoning works best)
  2. Place the meat into the crockpot along with the packet seasonings, water, and butter.
  3. Cook on low for six to eight hours, or on high for four to five hours.
  4. Stir and serve over rice or potatoes. 


Source — Samantha Patterson
Prepared by Samantha Patterson
Louisiana Anthology
December 22, 2021

Daube de Gazway

 Ingrédients

  • Pièce de viande ronde
  • De sel
  • De poivre
  • Du lard
  • Un morceau de piment
  • Un morceau d’ail
  • Trois clous de girofles
  • De laurier
  • Trois pieds de veau (coupés en morceaux)
  • Deux carottes fendues en longueur

Directions

  1. Prendre une pièce de viande ronde; s’il y a un os, il faut l’enlever.
  2.  La viande doit etre assaisonnee de sel et de poivre de chaque côte; bien lardée de chaque côté et laissez dépasser un morceau du lard lequel derra etre tranche de l’épaisseur du petit doigt et de la longueur d’un bon doigt.
  3. Assaisonnez le lard de sel et de poivre un moment avant de s’en servir.
  4. Mettez la viande dans un vase, ajoutez un morceau de piment, un morceau d’ail, trois clous de girofles, deux feuilles de laurier, très-peu de thym, pas d’oignon.
  5. La daube doit etre laissee vingt-quatre heures dans son assaisonnement et doit etre retournee deux ou trois fois pendant ce temps-la.
  6. Après les vingt-quatre heures, placez la daube dans une chaudière, ajoutez trois pieds de veau coupés en morceaux et deux carottes fendues en longueur et mettez la chaudière sur un feu modéré.
  7. Elle devra être bien recouverte pour empecher 1’evaporation et pour cela il faut placer sur le couvercle un poids comme deux fers à repasser.
  8. La cuisson faite vous retirez les carottes et les placez comme un petit carré au fond du vase qui doit contenir la daube.
  9. Le vase doit laisser un peu d’espace autour de la daube pour la gelée.
  10. Coulez dans un linge tout le jus, versez-le dans le vase qui contient la daube et laissez refroidir jusqu’au lendemain.

Ingredients

  • Round piece of meat
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Lard
  • Piece of a chili pepper
  • Piece of garlic
  • Three cloves
  • Laurel
  • Three calf's feet (cut into pieces)
  • Two carrots split in length

Directions

  1. Take a round piece of meat; if there is a bone, it must be removed.
  2. The meat should be seasoned with salt and pepper on each side; well larded on each side and leave a piece of lard sticking out which should be sliced ​​the thickness of a little finger and the length of a good finger.
  3. Season the bacon with salt and pepper a moment before using it.
  4. Put the meat in a vase, add a piece of pepper, a piece of garlic, three cloves, two bay leaves, very little thyme, no onion.
  5. The stew must be left for twenty-four hours in its seasoning and must be turned two or three times during this time.
  6. After the twenty-four hours, place the stew in a boiler, add three feet of veal cut into pieces and two carrots split lengthwise and put the boiler on a moderate fire.
  7. It must be well covered to prevent evaporation and for this it is necessary to place on the lid a weight like two irons.
  8. Once cooked, you remove the carrots and place them like a small square at the bottom of the vase which must contain the stew.
  9. The vase must leave a little space around the stew for the jelly.
  10. Pour all the juice into a cloth, pour it into the vase that contains the stew and leave to cool overnight.
Source — Cooking in Old Creole
Prepared by Samantha Patterson
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

Simple Tomato Soup

Ingredients

  • One pint of tomatoes
  • One pint of water
  • One bay leaf
  • One-fourth teaspoon of celery seed
  • Two tablespoons of butter
  • Two tablespoons of flour

Directions

  1. Combine tomatoes, water, bay leaf, and celery seed in a pot.
  2. Rub together the butter and flour.
  3. Stir the tomato mixture into the butter and flour.
  4. Cook the combined mixture for five minutes. 
  5. Strain the mixture and reheat to serve.
Source — New Orleans Cookbook
Prepared by Samantha Patterson
Louisiana Anthology
December 22, 2021