Laundress and the Fried Chicken

[launderess]

Giblet gravy is a must on Thanksgiving! Wouldn't be the same without.

Scones:

Have to agree with you Pete, they are kind of "hard" and certianly nothing like biscuts. Even with clotted cream or jam, still rather like eating a large hunk of fruit cake.

Pillsbury biscuts,cresent rolls and the like can be "ok" if in a rush for dinner or breakfast, but nothing beats home made.

Speaking of all this "Southern" food, not one person has mentioned sweet potato or pecan pie!

Launderess

 

[veg-o-matic]

Giblet Gravy?

No thanks. I'm on a "Low Internal Organ" diet.

I still say biscuits are like scones.

veg

 

[super32]

Sweet potato pie

Another of my grandmas' favorites. I'm glad you mentioned them because the holidays are coming up and i'll have to make a half a dozen or so. Thsi is one of those recipies that can make from 2 to 6 pies. I've gottten better about ending up with about 3-4. I usally only make them around the holidays because I dont want to walk around with it on my thieghs all year long.

 

[kenmore1978]

Holiday food

During the holidays Sweet Potato Pie, greens, cornbread, pan fried chicken, home-made mac & cheese. The bread type AND the cornbread type stuffings were cooked. Home-made pound cake and Ambrosia were thrown into the mix, too. There would be a choice of regular gravy, with little pieces of the turkey mixed in AND Giblet gravy. Everybody had their "specialty". One of my great Aunt's would make "Monkey Bread", very buttery. A lot of their friends had little "businesses" going where they would make things like Monkey Bread, Sweet Potatoe and Pumpkin pies, and roasts and sell them to people who didn't want to cook themselves.

 

[kenmore1978]

Squash cassarole

Who has the recipe for this?

 

[tomturbomatic]

My mom found a good and simple recipe for Spoon Bread which I used to make for her when she came up. I'll have to take her some soon. I always ate it with sugar on it for dessert. Her family came from eastern Europe, but they used lots of corn meal, often cooked in water for corn meal mush or polenta if you are Italian, then cooled sliced and fried, but they also baked cornbread. There are versions of a dish called Mamaliga made just this way, but then there is the cardiac in a casserole called Baked Mamaliga where you layer the hot polenta or mush in a casserole with grated cheese and butter and bake it. Maybe for hardworking peasants it was ok, maybe not, but when I saw it made, all I could think of was Killer Casserole.

 

[tlee618]

Tom, I had a neighbor who often made the fried mush. It was so good and something that I still make from time to time. Terry

 

[michaelman2]

Kenmore..I can give you a good recipe for the Squash Caserole if you want one...also a Sweet Potato Souffle...ok guys/gals..we can not forget a congealed salad!!!!

 

[launderess]

Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing

Well all this palaver about Chicken Buckets, and fried chicken "forced" me to dig mine out and go to town. Happily our local shop was having a sale on Canola oil (have to watch the saturated fats so peanut oil was o-w-u-t "out".

As one sits literally "stuffed" cannot tell you how good that fried chicken was. Happily did about a bird and a half, so there are leftovers for tomorrow and maybe enough to snack on during EastEnders on Saturday night.

Launderess

 

[kenmore1978]

recipes

"Kenmore..I can give you a good recipe for the Squash Caserole if you want one...also a Sweet Potato Souffle...ok guys/gals..we can not forget a congealed salad!!!!"

So hit me, thanks

 

[jetcone]

What on earth is

Congealed Salad and Cornbread dressing?

Over in England this summer I found out scones should be made with cream as the liquid. American Bicuits are lighter and fluffier. In a pinch I have used the new frozen Pillsbury biscuits they are pretty darn good.

This Christmas I am going to try my hand at Persimmon Pudding. Any takers there?

Because of this thread I dug out my daily user pressure fryer I bought 20 years ago. The reason I bought that one was it was the only one that can pressure fry as well as regular pressure cook. I use it every week but until this week I never pressure fried before. So out came the recipe book and whammoo I made the best fried chicken all brown and crispy. I used peanut oil as Canola doens't agree with me.
I tested it out on my tenants, they are begging for more this weekend.
Now that I have finally broken the "pressure fry barrier" Laundress YOU have created a monster.

jetcone

 

[super32]

laundress

lmao@laundress. "o-w-u-t out"

I thought I was the only one who still said that.

Scott

 

[maytagbear]

Jon-

"Congealed salad" is a southernism.

"Congealed salad" is another word for "gelatin salad" or "Jell-O salad." They are one of my guilty pleasures. Love shredded carrots in orange gelatin. There are others. My maternal grandmother made one with lime gelatine, cottage cheese, and 7-Up. I did not get her exact recipe before the Alzheimer's set in. I've tried other recipes for it, but none are quite like hers.

I came across a congealed salad that sounded pretty dreadful, one that had sauerkraut in it.

I like sauerkraut in Choucroute Garnie (a French simmered dish of meats, seasonings and sauerkraut), and on a hot dog (but only once in a while!) and on New Year's Day (with a bit of carrot shredded in....sauerkraut for silver, carrot for gold.)

Does anyone else remember the celery flavoured Jell-O?

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch]

lime gelatin, cottage cheese, and 7-Up

Being of somewhat ethnic roots, these very typically "American" combinations are fascinating to me.

In south Florida, I learned of a "slushy".
Booze, 7up and ?. Freeze it and VOILA a slushy "sno-cone".
How's that for a cooling refreshing and uplifitng drink?

 

[golittlesport]

OK...I'm salivating. Post some of these recipes. Homemade mac and cheese?