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Visiting from Houston board: Recipes?
Good afternoon, ladies!
I am an Alabama native, now living near Houston, TX. I am looking for good, real southern recipes for:
cornbread
chicken & dumplins
The cornbread here is yellow & sweet. I grew up eating white & more on the side of salty. And I don't know a single person down here who makes chicken & dumplins. Mom, Grandma, etc. are long out of practice and never wrote down their recipes, of course! Thought I'd check here.
Thank you!
Re: Visiting from Houston board: Recipes?
Hi there! I searched for YEARS for a good chicken and dumplings recipe that tasted like my grandmother's, and finally found the recipe in Cooking Light of all places: link.
As for cornbread, I make mine from scratch using the recipe on the back of the Martha White package of corn meal. Basically it's part corn meal and flour, eggs, milk, butter, and a few other things. You can control how much sugar you put in yours... I like mine more salty, but a hint of sweet so I don't use a lot of sugar. It's the recipe both of my grandmothers used
my gma always made fried corn bread. she just used corn meal, salt and water. i've found some people call it 'ho cakes'. you drop it in grease and let it fry. it's super crunchy and salty. sometimes she'd make it a little thicker in consistency...form it into pieces and fill a cast iron skillet with oil and bake it. this might be a south alabama thing though.
not sure on the chicken and dumplings. my gma always makes it, but i'm a picky eater and have never cared for it, so never got her recipe.
Thank y'all both so much! I definitely prefer a salty cornbread rather than the sweet stuff that is the norm here.
If any other ladies are reading & would like to share, I'd appreciate it!
Thanks so much!