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Cheddar-Walnut Short bread

Shortbread, shortnin’ bread, sho’ bread—these terms may vary in spelling and pronunciation across different regions, and the cooking techniques employed may differ as well. Moreover,

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Pies and Biscuits

Basic Pie Shell

This basic pie shell recipe can be made using various fats such as lard, butter, margarine, or vegetable shortening. Serious Southern cooks know that lard

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Baked

Southern Pecan Pie

Like most Southerners, I firmly believe that pecan pie should be made only with fresh in-season pecans (not those half-rancid nuts sold in cans and

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Dessert

Kentucky Fried Peaches

In my experience, country-style restaurants (particularly barbecue pits) in both Georgia and Arkansas seem to pride themselves on small fried peach pies and turnovers, but

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Baked

Nutty Fingers

These feathery light, fragile, addictive cookies covered with confectioners’ sugar are still further testimony to the monumental role that pecans play in all Southern cookery.

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Dessert

Georgia Corn Custard Ice Cream

Corn, like pecans, rice, buttermilk, and bourbon, seems to find its way into virtually every facet of Southern cooking, and this honeyed ice cream, which

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Cake

Caramel Pound Cake

Consider this to be the queen of Southern pound cakes, a rich, smooth, sensuous masterpiece that never fails to produce sighs of ecstasy. Whether it

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Dessert

Orange Ice-Cream Pie

In the South, ice-cream pies are closely related to icebox pies and are popular at children’s birthday parties and summer ice-cream socials. There are endless

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Pies and Biscuits

Blackberry-Lemon Icebox Pie

Grasshopper pie, black-bottom pie, butterscotch pie – all are considered “icebox” pies. Icebox pies require no rolling of pastry dough, exotic fillings, or final baking.

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I’m Brenda, your home cheff. Welcome to my Recipe Book!

I am a self-taught cook. I started cooking around 18 years old. I stood in the kitchen and watched my mother, who was my biggest inspiration at the time, cook.

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