Southern Plantation Cooking

by Gunderson, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780736803571
• ISBN10: 0736803572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Blue Earth Books

Summary

Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of people on southern plantations before the Civil War. Includes recipes.

Table of Contents

Plantations in the United States	6	(4)
The Plantation	10	(4)
Life in the Big House	14	(2)
Life in the Slave Quarters	16	(2)
When the Dinner Bell Rang	18	(2)
Plantation Hospitality	20	(2)
Orchards and Gardens	22	(2)
Puttin' up Pork	24	(2)
Christmas in the Big House	26	(2)
Big Times in the Slave Quarters	28
Cooking Help
Metric Conversion Guide	4	(1)
Kitchen Safety	4	(1)
Cooking Equipment	5	(7)
Recipes
Feather-light Buttermilk Biscuits	12	(3)
Shrimp Creole over Rice	15	(2)
Oven-baked Okra	17	(2)
Fried Chicken	19	(2)
Pound Cake with Strawberries	21	(2)
Baked Yellow Squash with Onions	23	(2)
Country Ham with Red-eye Gravy	25	(2)
Ambrosia	27	(2)
Sweet Potato Pie	29	(3)
References
Words to Know	30	(1)
To Learn More	30	(1)
Places to Write and Visit	31	(1)
Internet Sites	31	(1)
Index	32