Family Recipes from Rosedown & Catalpa Plantations

Family Recipes from Rosedown & Catalpa

Plantations

Family Recipes from Rosedown & Catalpa

Plantations

BY RICHARD SCOTT STELLA PITTS MARY THOMPSON

PELICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY Gretna 2005

Copyright ? 2005 by Richard Scott, Stella Pitts, and Mary Thompson All rights reserved

The word "Pelican" and the depiction of a pelican are trademarks of Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., and are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scott, Richard, 1944Family recipes from Rosedown and Catalpa plantations / by Richard Scott, Stella Pitts, Mary Thompson.

p. cm. ISBN 978-1-58980-211-7 (alk. paper) 1. Cookery, American--Louisiana style. I. Pitts, Stella, 1937- II. Thompson, Mary, 1946- III. Title.

TX715.2.L68S36 2005 641.59763--dc22

2004023768

Printed in the United States of America

Published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. 1000 Burmaster Street, Gretna, Louisiana 70053

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Rosedown and Catalpa: The Story of Two Plantations . . . . . . . . . 17 Plantation Cooking in the Antebellum South:

Its Origins and Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Memories of Rosedown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 A Note on the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Conversion Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Soups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Salads, Relishes, and Dressings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bread and Yeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Fritters, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Fish, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Fowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Meats and Meat Sauces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Eggs, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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