Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way

by Robinson, Sallie Ann; Smith, Gregory Wrenn; Conroy, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780807854563
• ISBN10: 0807854565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

In this enchanting book, Robinson presents 100 delicious, robust recipes from her native Sea Islands--including salads and side dishes, seafood, meat and game, rice, quick meals, breads, and desserts--and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African-influenced Gullah culture still found there. Gregory Wrenn Smith's photographs evoke the sights and tastes of Daufuskie.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Pat Conroy
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(1)
Island Life	1	(5)
Yondah Times	6	(3)
Times Come a Changin'	9	(9)
Living and Cooking on 'Fuskie Time	13	(5)
Spoken Language on Daufuskie	18	(2)
Recipes and Measurements	20	(5)
Healthier Fixin' and Mixin'	23	(2)
Salads	25	(14)
Nut and Apple Salad	26	(1)
Tossed Coleslaw	26	(1)
Hand-Picked Cucumber and Tomato Salad	27	(1)
Mixed Fruit and Nut Salad	27	(2)
Tada Salad	29	(2)
Momma's Shrimp and Tada Salad	31	(1)
Blossom's Chicken Salad	32	(2)
Turkey Salad	34	(1)
Sallie's Seafood Salad	34	(1)
Cast Net Shrimp Salad	35	(1)
Islander Crab Salad	36	(2)
Tuna and Macaroni Salad	38	(1)
The Garden	39	(16)
Black-Eyed Pea Soup	43	(1)
Country-Fried Cabbage with Ham	44	(1)
Momma's Homegrown Collards	44	(2)
Yellow Squash with Bacon	46	(1)
Sea Island Okra Gumbo	46	(2)
Ham Hocks and Rutabagas	48	(1)
Smokin' Joe Butter Beans	49	(1)
Snap Beans with Tadas	50	(1)
Turnips and Greens	51	(1)
Gullah-Fried Sweet Tadas	52	(1)
Boiled Peanuts	53	(2)
The River	55	(26)
Broken Crab and Okra Stew	57	(1)
'Fuskie Crab Patties	58	(3)
Scoop Net Fried Crab	61	(1)
Fried Crab Stew	61	(1)
Poppin' Fried Shrimp	62	(2)
Cooper River Smuttered Shrimp	64	(1)
Daufuskie Catfish and Shrimp Mull	64	(1)
Fried Shark	65	(1)
Dockside Baked Sheepshead	66	(1)
Pop's Smuttered Mullet (with Stiff Grits)	67	(2)
Benjie's Point Stewed Croaker	69	(1)
Skillet-Fried Trout	69	(3)
Fried Whiting	72	(1)
Conch Soup (with Smoked Neck Bone)	73	(2)
Shuckin' Fried Oysters	75	(2)
Pickin' Oyster Stew	77	(4)
The Yard	81	(26)
Pork Chops with Gravy	83	(2)
Barbecue Spareribs	85	(2)
Fried Ribs	87	(1)
Roaster Pan Baked Ham	88	(1)
Down-Home Chitlins	88	(2)
Sloppin' Trotters (Pigs' Feet)	90	(1)
Pig Tails with Tomatoes	91	(1)
Neck Bone, Tada, and Tomato Soup	92	(1)
Lowcountry Oxtails with Ham Hocks	92	(1)
Fixin' and Mixin' Meatloaf	93	(1)
Homey Beef Stew	94	(1)
Smuttered Cube Steak	95	(1)
Ol'-Fashion Pot Roast	96	(2)
Country-Fried Liver with Onions	98	(1)
Runaway Fried Chicken	99	(2)
Stewed Chicken Feet	101	(1)
Yard-Raised, Oven-Baked Chicken	102	(1)
Down Yondah Chicken Stew	102	(2)
Turkey Wings with Gravy	104	(1)
Barbecue Turkey Wings	105	(2)
The Woods	107	(14)
Eight-Point-Buck Stew	109	(1)
Deer Roast	110	(1)
Southern Deer Burger	111	(1)
Ol' Field Fried Rabbit	112	(1)
Smuttered Rabbit	113	(2)
Fried Squirrel	115	(2)
Native Squirrel Stew	117	(1)
Backwoods Baked Barbecue Coon	118	(1)
Pot Full o' Coon	119	(1)
Baked Possum	120	(1)
Rice Dishes	121	(16)
Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice	124	(2)
Ova Deh Shrimp and Rice	126	(3)
Oysters and Rice	129	(1)
Crackin' Conch and Rice	130	(1)
Seafood Rice	131	(1)
Generations Hoppin' John	132	(2)
Sizzlin' Sausage Red Rice	134	(1)
Chicken and Rice	135	(2)
Quick Meals	137	(8)
Anything Rice	138	(3)
Macaroni and Cheese	141	(1)
Pork and Beans with Sausage or Bacon	142	(1)
Sweet Peas and Hamburger	142	(1)
Stewed Tomatoes with Ham	143	(1)
Sardines with Bacon	143	(1)
Canned Salmon with Bacon and Onions	144	(1)
Breads and Sweets	145	(22)
Hand-Tossed Fluffy Biscuits	147	(1)
Grandmomma's Woodstove Cornbread	148	(2)
Bacon Grease Cornbread Stuffing	150	(1)
Age-Ol' Cracklin' Bread	151	(1)
Roadside Blueberry Biscuits	151	(1)
Tree-Ripened Apple Pie	152	(2)
Tummy-Yum Bread Pudding	154	(2)
Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling	156	(2)
Sallie's Favorite Carrot Cake	158	(1)
Thick-Crust Peach Cobbler	159	(1)
'Fuskie Pear Bread	160	(2)
Sister's Pound Cake	162	(1)
Pumpkin Bread	163	(1)
Vine-Ripened Pumpkin Pie	163	(2)
Sweet Tada Bread	165	(1)
Sweet Tada Pone	165	(2)
Index	167