Table of Contents
A Letter for Us, to Us 15
Introduction 19
Chapter 1 Seven Sweets and Seven Sours
Prune Compound Butter 38
Apple Butter 39
Mincemeat 40
Concord Grape Preserves 41
Preserved Mango 43
Kimmel Cherries 44
Yam Molasses 46
Rhubarb Chow-Chow 50
Okra Chow-Chow 51
Yellow Tomato and Sorghum Chow-Chow 57
Bread-and-Butter Pickles 58
Green Tomato Confit 59
Sweet-and-Sour Green and Wax Beans 61
Old Bay Coleslaw 62
Chapter 2 All Day, E'Ery Day
Johnnycakes with Apple Butter 67
Egg Salad with Bread-and-Butter Pickles 68
Crispy Potato Waffles 69
Nana Browne's Fried Potatoes and Onions 70
Cheese Grits with Jerk Pork 73
Crispy "City Mouse" Scrapple 76
Country Ham Steak with Fried Eggs and Pepper Cabbage 80
Grandpop's Meatloaf Sandwich with Caramelized Onion Relish 81
Creamed Chipped Beef with Brown Milk Gravy and Toast 83
Boiled Peanut Hummus 86
Spicy Pimento Cheese 87
Deviled Ham 88
Crispy Fried Corn on the Cob with Buttermilk Ranch 89
Crawfish Hushpuppies with Old Bay Remoulade 90
Chapter 3 Greens, Beans, Tubers, and Grains
Nana Browne's Collard Greens 94
Pepper Cabbage 95
Hot-Pepper Sauce Watermelon Salad 96
Green Leaf Lettuce and Cornbread Panzanella 99
Charred Radicchio Salad with Cola-Boiled Peanuts and Amish Cheddar 104
Red Bean Porridge 106
Pickled Collard "Ribs" and Beans 107
Cauliflower Rice and Beans 108
Amish Baked Beans 110
Ham Hock and Bean Terrine 113
Chicken-Fried Tempeh 115
Crispy Yucca with Sumac and Lemon 116
Pennsylvania Dutch Tater Tot Casserole 119
Low Country Potato Salad 122
Buckwheat and Roasted Carrots with Mushrooms 123
Mustard Greens and Lemongrass Fried Rice 124
Millet and Summer Corn 127
Chapter 4 Hard Times Foods
Crispy Fried Tomatoes 148
Rice and Gravy 149
Okra and Tomato Stew 151
Cabbage Soup with Egg Noodles and Smoked Ham Hock 152
Pan-Seared Chicken Livers 155
Chicken Backs and Turnip Stew 156
Chicken and Dumplings 158
Turkey Neck Gumbo over Rice 159
Neckbone Dumplings 161
Pig's Feet and Potatoes 164
Crispy Fried Tripe with Hot Vinegar Peppers 167
Dandelion Wine 168
Chapter 5 Celebration Foods
Crispy Deviled Eggs with Cracklin' Collard Greens 173
Macaroni and Cheese 174
Jackfruit Hand Pies 176
Stuffed Chard with Sweet Potatoes and Black Rice 177
Softshell Crabs with Sour Corn and Lady Cream Pea Salad 182
Butter Cracker-Crusted Perch with Sweet-and-Sour Green and Wax Beans 185
Crispy Cornmeal Catfish with Hot-Pepper Lemon Butter 187
Chicken and Waffles "My Style" 188
Lemonade Buttermilk Fried Chicken 193
Smothered Pork Chops 196
Chicken-Fried Steak with Sassafras Country Gravy 197
BBQ Ribs with Rhubarb Chow-Chow 199
Chapter 6 Breads and Flours
Buckwheat Crackers 203
Nana's Cornbread 205
Pimento Cheese Spoonbread 206
Sorghum Molasses Parker House Rolls 208
Nicodemus Bread 211
Black-Eyed Pea Donuts 214
Spaetzle 217
Brown Sugar Buttermilk Biscuits 218
Buckwheat and Rye Dumplings 222
Red Velvet Cornmeal Madeleines 223
Pecan Rolls 225
Chapter 7 Shugga's
Nana Browne's Roly Polys (Apple Dumplings) 231
Whoopie Pies 233
German Chocolate Donuts 239
Butterscotch "Krimpets" (Maple Log Donuts) 242
Silky Chocolate Mousse with Cocoa Crunch 245
Aunt Sara Mae's Buttermilk Cake 246
Buttermilk Cornbread Ice Cream 247
Shoofly Pie Ice Cream 249
Miss Molly's Icebergs 252
Funnel Cake 254
Molasses Cookies 255
Peach Cobbler 257
Acknowledgments 263
Index 266