White Trash Cooking: 25th Anniversary Edition [A Cookbook]

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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, Sep 27, 2011 - Cooking - 192 pages
More than 200 recipes and 45 full-color photographs celebrate 25 years of good eatin’ in this original regional Southern cooking classic.

A quarter-century ago, while many were busy embracing the sophisticated techniques and wholesome ingredients of the nouvelle cuisine, one Southern loyalist lovingly gathered more than 200 recipes—collected from West Virginia to Key West—showcasing the time-honored cooking and hospitality traditions of the white trash way. Ernie Mickler’s much-imitated sugarsnap-pea prose style accompanies delicacies like Tutti’s Fancy Fruited Porkettes, Mock-Cooter Stew, and Oven-Baked Possum; stalwart sides like Bette’s Sister-in-Law’s Deep-Fried Eggplant and Cracklin’ Corn Pone; waste-not leftover fare like Four-Can Deep Tuna Pie and Day-Old Fried Catfish; and desserts with a heavy dash of Dixie, like Irma Lee Stratton’s Don’t-Miss Chocolate Dump Cake and Charlotte’s Mother’s Apple Charlotte.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
Uncle Willies Swamp Cabbage Stew
11
Snap Beans
17
Netty Irenes Macaroni Cheese
23
VEGETABLES n MEATS continued
25
White Gravy With Milk
31
Southern Fried Chicken
37
Spaghetti Charlyss
42
Kiss Me Not Sandwich
73
Cucumber Eggs
79
CANDIES CAKES COBBLER n COOKIES continued
84
Plain Ol Potato Pone
99
Yellow Squash Pie
105
Clara Janes Fried Apples
111
Dumplins or Drop Biscuits
117
OldTime IcedDown Tomato Pickles 125 15
125

Yankee Cream Gravy
48
Fried Catfish Fillet
54
Sheba Spanns Mock SheMock Crab Stew
60
Mona Lisa Sapps Macaroni Salad
66
Pear Squash Pickles Chayotes
126
Marthas Hot Cocoa
132
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About the author (2011)

Ernest Matthew Mickler received a master’s degree in fine arts from Mills College before embarking on his true mission as a culinary cultural preservationist. Ernie died in 1988, but his classic cookbook, and all the stories enshrined within its pages, live on.

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