Recipes...Country Cookin'...Soul Food

Does the very mention of country recipes and Southern cooking make one's mouth water? To the enthusiastic woman who cooks, the South is a succession of areas, each of which has its cherished traditional and celebrated ways of preparing its favorite foods.

Southern culinary specialties are legion, but among those best remembered are the celebrated burgoos, fried chicken, terrapin stew, Brunswick stew, candied yams, beaten biscuits, corn pone, corn bread, short'nin' bread, and spoon bread, not to mention Lady Baltimore cake, pecan pie, and sweet potato pie. Then there is always syllabub, hot buttered rum and Southern egg-nogs . . . and many more wondrous dishes to delight the adventurer in good eating.

A great DIY project is to create a family cookbook. Organize all your family recipes from family members, including family photos, a short biography and recipes into a family heirloom cookbook.

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