Grandmother's Kitchen
Time-Tested Southern Recipes
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Browse 1910+ classic Southern recipes from vintage cookbooks. Perfect for weeknight dinners or special occasions—these tried-and-true dishes have been feeding families for generations.
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Classic Recipes
Time-tested Southern recipes perfect for tonight's dinner
Cauliflower & Cheese
Cauliflower & Cheese - Cook cauliflower & take cream - butter & salt & pepper & grated cheese - cook same & pour over cauliflower...
Spaghetti en Casserole
SPAGHETTI EN CASSEROLE One package spaghetti (ten cent size) boiled, put in casserole, add two sweet peppers cut fine, two small onions, one stalk celery, six slices bacon (which has been cut fine and...
Spaghetti
SPAGHETTI Boil one package spaghetti until tender. Drain and add one can tomato soup, one tablespoon butter or a little soup stock, salt, pepper, dash of paprika, one green pepper, which has been prev...
Scalloped Potatoes with Cheese
SCALLOPED POTATOES WITH CHEESE Slice raw potatoes and grated cheese and dry bread. Then put in layers in a bake dish having cheese for top layer; add salt and pepper and a small piece of butter; then ...
Scalloped Potatoes
SCALLOPED POTATOES Put layer of sliced raw potatoes in baking dish, season, dot with bits of butter, a few slices of onions and sprinkle a little flour over; add another layer of potatoes and so on un...
Scalloped Corn
SCALLOPED CORN Three beaten eggs, one and one-half pints of milk (scant), one package Uneeda Biscuit (excepting five); dot with small pieces of butter; salt and pepper to taste; bake in moderate oven ...
Potatoes
With roast meats serve potatoes mashed or roasted in the pan with the meat. With fricasseed meats serve baked potatoes. Serve potatoes plain boiled only when new. With broiled steak serve creamed potatoes and a crisp fried vegetable, like egg plant. With roast pork serve baked potatoes, a green vegetable and a sour apple sauce. With roast beef serve potatoes baked in the pan and a sweet watermelon or peach pickle. With roast chicken serve mashed potatoes, onions and a sour jelly. With roast lamb serve mashed potatoes, green peas or string beans and a mint sauce. For dinner salads use only the simple green salads, with French dressing.
"With roast meats serve potatoes mashed or roasted in the pan with the meat. With fricasseed meats se..."
Potato Dumplings
Serve with spiced meat. (See meats.)
"Serve with spiced meat. (See meats.)..."
Potato Cakes
POTATO CAKES Mix one and one-half cups cold mashed potatoes with yolk of one egg; add one-half teaspoon sugar, three or four tablespoons flour, salt and pepper; must be firm enough to take up in flour...
Noodles
NOODLES Beat two eggs well; add pinch salt and flour enough to make dough; knead well on floured board; roll out thin; let dry; cut in slices one-quarter of an inch wide; boil in salt water and leave ...
Delicate Cabbage
DELICATE CABBAGE One small cabbage cut fine, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, one cup of milk, pepper and salt to taste; put the butter in a skillet and when it boils stir in ...
Caramelized Sweet Potatoes
CARAMELIZED SWEET POTATOES One dozen small sweet potatoes, boiled until tender; peel and cut in half and arrange in shallow baking dish; boil one cup water and a pint of brown sugar together for ten m...
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