Baked
Maryland Beaten Biscuits
Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky all lay claim to these small, dry, crisp biscuits, but I must say that Marylanders do seem to have the knack
May 30, 2023
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
May 30, 2023
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
May 30, 2023
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
May 30, 2023
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.
May 30, 2023
Baked
Chocolate-Butterscotch Pie
Southerners have had a passion for butterscotch for as long as there’s been a codified style of cooking in the South, and the array of
May 30, 2023
Baked
Lemon-Buttermilk Chess Pie
I’ve eaten chess pie in every Southern state (and nowhere else), sometimes made with plain granulated sugar and flour instead of cornmeal, enriched even more
May 30, 2023
Baked
Orange Tea Biscuits
If any bread evokes a more genteel era in the South, when afternoon tea on porches and verandas was almost a ritual in finer homes,
May 30, 2023
Baked
Alabama Biscuit Muffins
Let’s just say that biscuit muffins are a very distinctive bread of the Deep South and that the slightly sweet little dodgers are even more
May 30, 2023
Baked
Ham and Grits Biscuits
Some of the best biscuits i’ve put in my mouth have been found at humble diners, and none is more memorable than these husky ones
May 30, 2023
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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