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Introduction
Snacks and Dishes to Share
Boiled Peanuts
Deviled Eggs
Rice-and-Shrimp Croquettes with Tomato Chili Sauce
Chilled Oysters with Buttermilk, Apple, and Caviar
Grilled Oysters with Green Garlic Butter
Fireplace Cookery
Southern Clams Casino
Clams with Sausage, Braised Peppers, and Grilled Bread
Deviled Crab
Crispy Pig’s Ears with Pimento Ranch
Smoked Trout Dip
Grilled Chicken Wings with West African BBQ Sauce
Sea Island Red Pea Spread with Cucumber-Tomato Salad
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Bologna with Pickled Peach Mustard
Smoked Baby Back Ribs with Benne BBQ Sauce
Smoking
Ol’ Fuskie Crab Rice
Traditional Shrimp and Grits
Shrimp and Grits with Roasted Tomatoes, Fennel, and Sausage
Soups and Salads
Chilled Summer Squash Soup with Buttermilk and Sunflower Seeds
Groundnut Soup
Cream of Morel Soup
She-Crab Soup
Killed Lettuces
Heirloom Tomato and Watermelon Salad
Baby Collards with Benne Caesar Dressing and Cornbread Croutons
Country Ham Road Map
Summer Melon with Country Ham and Grilled Honey–Black Pepper Vinaigrette
Peach and Tomato Salad with Cottage Cheese, Watercress, and Pawpaw Vinaigrette
Grilled Asparagus and Cracklin’ Salad with “Amazake” Vinaigrette
Fish and Shellfish
Grilled Catfish with Barely Cooked Tomatoes
Grilling
Grilled Catfish with Hoppin’ John
Grilled Swordfish with Green Gumbo
Grilled Trout with Cornbread Puree
Cornmeal-Dusted Grouper with Herb Puree
Fried Catfish with Green Tomato Tartar Sauce
Beeliner Snapper with Fried Peppers
Sheepshead “on the Half Shell” with Tomato Gravy
Potlikker-Steamed Sea Bass with Corn Dodgers
Lowcountry Fish-Head Stew
Shrimp and Oyster Purloo
Poultry and Meat
Chicken Breasts with Black Pepper and Peanut Butter Gravy
Chicken Breasts with Herb Dumplings
Fried Chicken
Pit-Cooked-Chicken Sandwiches
Grilled Quail with Red-Eye Gravy
Taking Care of Cast Iron
Cured Duck Breasts with Rice Porridge Serves 4
Cheeseburgers
Pork Shoulder Steak with Grilled Mushrooms
Strip Steak with Worcestershire
Pork Prime Rib with Mustard Onions
Spring Lamb with Rhubarb Butter
Vegetables and SIDES
Corn Puree
Sweet Potato Puree
Potato and Ramp Puree
Creamed Ramps
Green Garlic Puree
Slow-Cooked Onions
Charred Corn with Grilled Peppers
Grilled Carrots
Braised and Seared Cabbage
Ladies’ Cabbage
Fried Cabbage
Butterball Potatoes with Crispy Potato Topping
Potatoes and Ramps Cooked in Ham Fat
Green Beans
Petit Vert Peas
Purple Cape Beans and Grilled Greens
How to Cook a Pot of Greens
Crowder Pea and Hominy Succotash
Grilled Okra
Fried Okra
Limpin’ Susan
Tomato-Okra Stew
Eggplant Purloo
Fried Apples
How to Cook Fresh Field Peas or Butter Beans
Pressure-Cooker Sea Island Red Peas
Braised Turnips
Braised Fennel
Brown-Butter Cauliflower
Salt-Roasted Beets
Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
Confit Tomatoes
Grilled Asparagus
Grilled Spring Onions
Grilled Ramps
Charred Turnips with Their Greens
Grilled Mushrooms
Grains
Hominy and Pokeweed Griddle Cakes
Hominy
Cornbread
Basic Cornbread
Hot-Water Cornbread
Stovetop Grits
Pressure-Cooker Grits
Cornmeal Porridge
Biscuits
How to Make Butter
John Egerton’s Beaten Biscuits
Buttermilk Rolls
Appalachian Fry Bread
Sorghum Seed Crackers
No-Peek Rice
Creamed Rice
Charleston Ice Cream
Dirty Rice
Dirty Farro
Rye and Morel Porridge
Pantry
Dilly Beans
Pickled Okra
Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Preserving and Canning
Pickled Chilies
Pickled Green Tomatoes
Pickled Peaches
Pickled Ramps
Pickled Fennel
Pickled Eggs
Asparagus “Capers”
Onion Flower “Capers”
Preserved Lemons
How to Make Vinegar
Hot Sauce
Pepper Vinegar
Pepper Mash
Hominy Miso
Mixed Pickles
Boiled Peanut Miso
Ramp Sauerkraut
Sour Cabbage
Turnip Ferment
Sour Corn
Sour Corn Chowchow
Scuppernong Verjus
Canned Greasy Beans
Preserved Tomatoes
Rhubarb-Tomato Conserve
Tomato Jam
Fruit Preserves
Watermelon Molasses
Muscadine Molasses
Rhubarb Butter
Boudin
Bologna
Venison Summer Sausage
Pickled Pig’s Feet
Crab Roe Bottarga
Dried Oysters
Cured Egg Yolks
Desserts
Blackberry Cobbler
Elderberry Dumplings with Grapefruit Crème Anglaise
Magnolia Vinegar and Brown Butter Pie
Buttermilk Pie
Peanut Butter Chess Pie
Sweet Potato Pie
Fruit Preserves Hand Pies
Plum Upside-Down Cake
Caramel Cake
Pecan and Black Walnut Church Cake
Pawpaw and Banana Pudding
A Few Southern Libations
Hand-Churned Peach Sherbet
Hickory-Smoked Ice Cream
Basics
Rendered Bacon Fat
Rendered Fresh Beef Fat
Rendered Fresh Chicken Fat
Rendered Fresh Lard
Rendered Ham Fat
Chicken Stock
Duck Stock
Pork Stock
Veal or Beef Stock
Vegetable Stock
Mushroom Stock
Basic Meat Sauce
Chicken Sauce
Duck Jus
Pork Jus
BBQ Sauce
Alabama White Sauce
Pepper Sauce
West African Peanut Sauce
Pork Rinds
Bacon Jam
Fines Herbes
Benne Tahini
Buttermilk Vinaigrette
Smoked Tomato Vinaigrette
Cornbread Croutons
Cornbread Oyster Stuffing
Cottage Cheese
Pimento Cheese
Fresh Cheese
Herb Ash
BBQ Rub
Blackening Seasoning
Turnip Condiment
Ramp Leaf Oil
Spicy Peanuts
Citrus Condiment
Preserved Tomato Condiment
Parsley Sauce
Resources
Acknowledgments
index
conversion charts
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