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Welcome to the Recipes section of Southern-Style.com. If your family is like mine, food is the focus of all of our social activities and the reason our family gathers three times a day. So we've consumed lots of food. But more than the ingredients those recipes come with memories. I've gathered meaningful recipes from our family and friends to share with you here. In the process, I'll introduce you to some of the most influential of those people.
I have published the Alliwishus
story that my mother told me, that I read to my children and
grandchildren every Christmas. You can link to it on Amazon here. It is
a part of our heritage. I
wish our world valued mothers as they should.
Truly "the hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world." It is not our contribution to the
GDP that will count in the end. It is the character of the children you
contribute to the world. No one will teach or love them like their own
mother. It is the most important -- and least valued-- job in the world.
Appetizers Artichoke Dip Aunt Elliece's Pickle Recipe Baked Grapefruit Black Olive Dip Blintz Hors D-oevre Cheese Log Cheese Ring Crab Stuffed Mushroom Cranberry Relish Cucumber mix for Cucumber Sandwiches Georgia Caviar Mimi’s Cocktail Meat Balls Molded Shrimp or Crab Ring Patty Leavins Fruit Dip Pimento Cheese Sherried Fruit Stuffed Celery Beverages Adams Wine Recipe Aunt Cassie's Milk Punch Holiday Punch Lime Sherbert Punch Lucy Burns Punch Mulled Cranberry Cocktail Red Strawberry Punch Sybil’s Open House Perka-A-Punch Sweet Tea Wedding Punch Breads Apricot Bread Aunt Sara’s Spoon Bread Banana Nut Bread Biscuits 1 Biscuits 2 Bread Sticks Cajun Bread Cornbread Dressing Broccoli Cornbread Country Club Muffins Country Cornbread Diana Duncan's Awesome Lemon Bread Honey Almond Cranberry Bread Malunjin Indian Bread Mexican Corn Bread Mimi’s Easy Corn Pudding Mimi’s Favorite Recipe for Cheese Grits Mimi’s Macaroni and Cheese Sour Cream Biscuits Southern Country Cornbread Spoon Bread The Best Cornbread Dressing Desserts 12 Layer Chocolate Cake 12 Layer Cake Filling /icing 7 Up Cake A Delicate Cake for Tea Aunt Pat’s Lemon Cheese Cake Apricot Delight Salad Black Cherry Salad Angels' Cookies Anna Wagner’s Coffee Cake Apple Cake Bananas Foster Black Russian Cake Blonde Brownies Bob's Favorite Cookies Bread Pudding Brownies Shirley Newton Carrot Cake Carrot Cake Frosting Cheesecake Chess Pie Chocolate Delight Chocolate Peanut Candy Chocolate Pecan Mud Pie Chocolate Pie Cocoa Kiss Cookies Cora Dowling Ramsey's Angel Food Cake Crackle Top Cookies Date Balls Delicate Tea Cakes Earthquake Cake Easy Apple Crisp Dessert Elkanah’s Favorite Devil Food Cake Esther Hardin's Pineapple Pound Cake Forgotten Cookies Frozen Fruit Salad Frozen Strawberry Crunch Fudge Pie Ginger Snaps Golden Lemon Bars Grandmother's Chocolate Cake Grandmother Ramsey's Other Chocolate Cake Grandmother Ramsey's Chocolate Pie Hilda’s Blonde Brownies Hilda Ramsey’s Charlotte Hummingbird Cake Jean's Chocolate Cake Judge Crespi's Famous Flan Julia's French Coconut Pie Julia's Chicken Just the Best Cookies Kitty McMullen’s Lemon Jell-o® Cake Lee Jewell's Lemon Cheese Cake Lemon Ice Box Pie Lillian Ann's Lemon Chess Bars Lucy Watson Knight's Fruit Cake Lucie Weber’s Brown Sugar Cookies Lucie Weber’s Rich Chocolate Cookies Mama E.'s Pecan Pie Mama E.'s Pound Cake Mammy's Tea Cakes Mammy’s Lane Cake Meringue Filling Meringue Shells Mile High Pie Milky Way Cake Mimi’s Cold Brandy Soufflé Mimi’s Pot de Crème Chocolat Mitford Orange Marmalade Cake Mitford Orange Marmalade Cake Frosting Mixed Nut Turtles Muddin's Coconut Cake Muddin's Egg Custard Muddin's Favorite Pound Cake Muddin's Prune Whip Cake Muddin's Sour Cream Cake Naomi's Buttermilk Cake Naomi’s Butter Nut Cake Never Fail Sponge Cake Nellie and Joe's Key lime Pie Nip and Ernie's Brownies Oatmeal Cookies Old Time Egg Custard Pat's Graham Squares Peach Noodle Kugel Peanut Pie Peanut Butter Pie Pecan Pie with Chilled Vanilla Custard Pecan Tassies Pineapple Glaze Pots de Creme Scuppernong Pie Sharman's Pound Cake Sour Cream Coffee Cake Sour Cream Pound Cake Strawberry and White Chocolate Bread Pudding Strawberry Pie Sweet Potato Pecan Balls Sybil Mitchell's Fudge Pie Triple Decker Fudge Vanilla Kiss Cookies White Chocolate Cheesecake Yummy Cake Frosting and Icing 12 Layer Cake Filling /icing 7 Up Frosting Recipe Apricot Jello Topping Carrot Cake Frosting Chocolate Syrup Easy Icing Coconut Cake Icing Coconut Frosting Devils Food Cake Icing Hummingbird Cake Icing Lemon white icing for Aunt Pat’s Lemon cheesecake Mitford Orange Marmalade Cake Frosting Muddin's Chocolate Fudge Icing Game Alligator and Andouille Sauce Piquante Barbecued Rabbit Barbecue Squirrel Brains and Eggs Braised Rabbit Chicken or Pheasant Picatta Fried Chicken How to Smoke Meat Larded Venison Roast Pigeon Pie Roast Rabbit Stewed Brains Stewed Pigeons Stewed Rabbit Stewed Venison Venison Haunch Venison Roast Marinated in Buttermilk Wild Turkey Meats/Poultry and Fish Big Mama’s Stuffed Deviled Crab Broiled Scallops Brisket Beef Cheezy Chicken Roll Ups Chicken a la King Chicken Wiggle Crab Cakes Egg Cheese Grit Erma's Lo Cal Cowboy Stew Grandma Dowling’s Pot Roast Jean Burson's Chicken Pie Mimi’s Beef Patties Mimi’s Party Tenderloin Shrimp Salad Shrimp in Lemon Butter Sweet and Sour Curried Chicken or Turkey Tuna CasseroleSalads Southern Greek Salad, super easy... Erma's Low Cal E-z Strawberry Salad Luncheon Salad SaucesApple Sauce Asparagus Sauce Celery Sauce Drawn Butter Egg Sauce Mint Sauce Nanny and Pawpaw Gravy Onion Sauce Pink Remoulad Salad Dressing or Seafood Sauce for chilled/mounded Shrimp or Crab Quick Tartar Sauce Red Cocktail Sauce Roquefort Dressing Savannah Sauce for Boiled Poultry Soups Brunswick Stew Easy! Brunswick Stew Brunswick Stew 2 Brunswick Stew 3 Cabbage and Sausage Soup Cold Fruit Soup Gumbo Gumbo 1 Gumbo 2 Mimi's Famous Vegetable Beef Soup Nanny and PawPaw Soup She Crab Soup Vegetables Angie's Taters Baked Beans Baked Rice Bean Salad Big Mama’s Cheese Topped Stuffed Potatoes Broccoli Broccoli Casserole Broccoli-Rice Casserole Carrots with Orange Sauce Coleslaw Corn Casserole Corn Pudding Dill Bean Casserole English Pea Casserole French Peas Lima Bean Casserole Marinated Bean Salad Marinated Vegetables Marinated Carrots or Copper Coins Mashed Potato Casserole Mimi’s Spinach Casserole Muddin's Perfection Salad Party Green Beans Red Beans and Rice Squash Casserole Potato Mounds Household Tips Cleaning Silver Spring Cleaning Recipe for Grout |
My Grandmother Burson (Nanny) was a hardworking woman who had the great
pleasure of owning the home of her dreams, Wakefield, after years of lugging water up from the stream and picking up pecans for extra spending money. She traveled with my
Grandfather Burson, a doctor in Wilcox county, Alabama, who was also the
doctor for the railroad to collect antiques
to furnish the home in Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, Montgomery,
Memphis, etc. She particularly was fond of cut glass.
My Grandmother Gillis (Muddin) served foods every bit as delicious, but in a humble home on mismatched dishes. My Grandfather (John Patrick Gillis) was killed in an accident when the chains on a log truck broke and he was instantly killed in the truck following. My mother was 13 with four younger siblings, the youngest being 6 months old. My Grandmother was 30. She took the insurance money and bought a house midway between the Presbyterian Church and the school house. She never remarried and she never forgot him. Seconds before she passed away, she looked past those gathered around her, reached out and whispered, "Pat?" Her recipes are listed under Downhome Recipes.
Mattie Martin (Mammy) came to work for us when I was five years old. She was my best friend and the best cook I ever knew. She cooked for Dr. Moody before coming to work for us and thought it her responsibility to make sure we lived up to their standards. She made sure I knew how to set a proper table..."The fork goes on the left of the plate with the napkin. The knife goes next to the plate on the right with the spoon next to it. Always put the meat on a platter in front of 'the Doctor'." Her apple pie had the most delicious crust with cheese cut into it. Her banana pudding, coconut pie, chocolate pie, egg custard, etc. have never been equaled. Her recipes are listed under Downhome Recipes.
Proper Table Setting At Rest Finished Eating
Joyce, Elizabeth and Bill Ramsey
Cecily Ramsey Butterworth, Philip Ramsey, Brooke Ramsey Evans, Pat Ramsey and Teri Towe Dowling cousin, Teri Towe, graciously contributed lots of recipes from his branch of the Dowling family. (He is Carrow Dee Dowling's descendant. Cora Dowling, my husband's grandmother, was Carrow Dee's sister.)
Lunch Bunch Mary
Alice
Bishop, Lonelle Jackson, Hilda Ramsey, Evelyn Davis, Pauline Parkman, Jerri
Chancey, Mavis Gwaltney, Charlie Capps, and Merle Bottoms belonged
to a Lunch group that met each Thursday for 43 years in Dothan, Alabama.
As members passed away others were added, including Elizabeth Allen and Rosa
Thomas. The rules for the group were:
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