Soul Food Recipes: Favorite and Traditional Recipes of Authentic Down-Home Dishes

By Stephen G.J.

Soul food is the cuisine of the Deep South where millions of African Americans left behind when they moved North, Midwest, and West during "The Great Migration" in 1910s to the 1970s.

The types of food used in most soul food dishes include cornmeal, greens, beans and pork. In fact, pork is used in many ways when making soul food dishes, in seasoning stews and vegetables as well as in pickling and dehydrating pork rinds and similar foods.

This book will explore and discover hidden stories of Authentic Soul Food. You can make Southerner dishes and embrace the culture with your family and friends at home.

Download Now, you can make an authentic soul food yourself. 

Happy Cooking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen G.J.
• Release date: Jan 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393779360

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Soul Food Recipes

Favorite and Traditional Recipes

of Authentic Down-Home Dishes

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Stephen G.J.

Copyright © 2021 by Stephen G.J.

All right reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise – except for brief quotation in printed reviews without the prior written permission of the publisher or the author.

CONTENT

Introduction

Sides & Salads

Black-Eyed Peas

Collard Greens

Barbecued Chicken Livers on Peppered Turnip Greens

Mustard Barbecue Sauce

Frogmore Stew

Stewed Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey

Macaroni with Meat Sauce

Lady Lima Succotash Salad with Fresh Mint

Macaroni Vegetable Salad

Sweet Pickle Potato Salad

Spicy Charleston Black Beans

Citrus Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Lemon Candied Yams

Creole Potato Salad

Entrée

Stone Ground Grits

Fried Catfish Plate

Seared Grouper with Spicy Gumbo Sauce

Spicy Gumbo Sauce

Shrimp and Okra Creole Sauté

Bourbon Praline Candied Baked Ham

Bourbon Praline Sauce

Pork Chops with Apples

Sherry She Crab Soup

Roast Quail in Bourbon Cream Sauce

Bourbon Cream Sauce

Free Range Duck with Creole Sauce

Creole Sauce

Southern Fried Chicken

Roasted Stuffed Turkey

Corn Bread Chestnut Dressing

Charleston Spicy Red Rice

Gullah Dirty Rice

Savory Chicken Bog

Breads & Desserts & Drinks

Buttermilk Corn Bread Muffins

Buttermilk Biscuits

Sweet Potato Muffins

Icebox Lemon Pie

Banana Pudding Custard Pie

Southern Pound Cake

Sweet Potato Coconut Cake

Molasses Water

Peach Banana and Warm Millet Smoothie

Wild Bellinis

Tequila Ice

Mango Nectar

Cucumber Lemon Water

Introduction

Soul food is the cuisine of the Deep South where millions of African Americans left behind when they moved North, Midwest, and West during The Great Migration in 1910s to the 1970s. However, the term had been floating around in African American culture since the 1950s.

Soul was first associated with the gospel sound that was becoming more pronounced in jazz music. Soul proved so popular an adjective that it was soon applied to almost every aspect of black culture. First, it was soul music, then soul brother, soul sister, and ultimately Soul Food which Soul" refers to the culture of African Americans. There are African Americans living in all fifty of the United States. The ten states with the largest populations of African Americans are New York, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Louisiana, Michigan, and Maryland.

In the 1600s, African slaves were brought to the United States, along with their food and styles of cooking. They brought okra, sesame seeds, peanuts, black-eyed peas, and rice. Using these foods, they introduced new recipes to the existing American dishes. The slaves were also given only a small portion of food each week, so they learned to make dishes