Hot/Spicy Homemade Christmas or Unexpected Anytime Gifts Cookbook: Christmas on Georgia Plantations

By Xlibris US

Sharon Hunt, a freelance writer and a retireed from a Historically Black College and
Universities(HBCUs), writes cookbooks and children books. In her books, she includes learning
scenarios for children as well as adults. For her children books, she introduces ideas about subject-
matter centered around their learning environment. For her cookbooks, most of her work is about
Georgia and African-American history. The recipes represent different regions of Georgia
and celebrate the foods and metods of preparation from each region. Her most famous cookbook
-Bread from Heaven, has sold in the thousands, and she sold many of this cookbook when she
appeared three times on the QVC Home Shopping Network. Ms. Hunt created the original recipe for the World Largest Peach Cobbler in Peach County-Fort Valley, Georgia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493143177

Book preview

Hot/Spicy

Homemade Christmas

or

Unexpected Anytime

Gifts Cookbook

CHRISTMAS ON GEORGIA PLANTATIONS

Sharon Kaye Hunt

Copyright © 2014 by Sharon Kaye Hunt.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4931-4316-0

                eBook           978-1-4931-4317-7

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Contents

Introduction

Appetizers

Hot, Spicy Chicken Salad

Hot, Spicy Cocktail Wieners

Hot/Spicy Vegetable Medley

Hot/Spicy Boiled Peanuts

Hot/Spicy Fried Peanuts

Hot/Spicy Maple Crunch

Hot/Spicy Pecans

Hot/Spicy Pralines

Hot/ Spicy Sour Cream Pecans

Hot And Spicy Beverages

Hot Chocolate

Hot Coffee Mix

Hot/Spicy Lemonade

Spiced Tea Mix

Spicy Hot Chocolate Coffee Mix

Hot Spicy Mexican Coffee

Hot Spicy Tea

Hot And Spicy Jams

Hot and Spicy Blueberry Jam

Hot and Spicy Blackberry Jam

Spicy Dewberry Jam

Spicy Apricot Jam

Spicy Apple Jam

Hot and Spicy Bullets (wild grapes) Jam

Hot and Spicy Cherry Jam

Spicy Muscadine Grape Jam

Spicy Peach Jam

Spicy Plum Jam

Spicy Raspberry Jam

Spicy Strawberry Jam

Spicy Triple Berry Jam

Patrolling

Hot And Spicy Jellies

How to sterilize jars and screw tops-

Hot/Spicy Apple Jelly

Hot/Spicy Blackberry Jelly

Hot/Spicy Cherry Jelly

Jalapeno Pepper Jelly

Spicy Muscadine Grape Jelly

Hot/Spicy Mayhaw Jelly

Spicy Plum Jelly

Spicy Red Raspberry Jelly

Spicy Scuppernong Jelly

Spicy Strawberry Jelly

OVERSEERS

RULES OF THE PLANTATIONS

Hot/Spicy Main Dishes

Hot/Spicy Meatball Soup

Hot/Spicy Spaghetti Meat Sauce

Hot/Spicy Chili

Hot/Spicy Macaroni and Cheese

Shrimp Gumbo

Chicken Pot Pie Filling

Hot/Spicy Barbecue Pulled Pork

Hot/Spicy Jambalya

S L A V E R Y

FOOD

TYPE OF WORK

EDUCATION

RELIGION

Hot/Spicy Side Dishes

1 Hot and Spicy Collard Greens

2 Hot and Spicy Collard Greens with Onions

Hot and Spicy Pinto Beans

Spicy Butter Beans

Mashed Rutabugus

Creamed Corn

Hot and Spicy Fresh Blackeyed Peas

Hot and Spicy Butter Peas

Hot and Spicy English Peas and Carrots

Hot and Spicy Rice Pilaf

Hot and Spicy Hoppin Johns(Blackeyed peas and rice)

Hot and Spicy Dried Lima Beans

3 Hot and Spicy Collard Greens

4 Hot and Spicy Greens with Oxtails

5 Collards with Country Cured Neck Bones

6 Cooked Collard Greens with Chicken Breasts

6 Vegetarian Collard Greens

7 Boiled Collard Greens and Bouillon Cubes

8 Hot and Spicy Collard Greens with Smoked Goat Ribs

Desserts

Hot and Spicy Apple Pie Filling

Hot and Spicy Butternut Squash

Hot and Spicy Pear Filling

Pumpkin Pie Filling

Hot and Spicy Sweet Potato Pie Filling

Hot And Spicy Condiments, Relishes, Rubs And Seasonings

Hot and Spicy Barbecue Sauce

Hot and Spicy Cocktail Sauce

Hot Pepper Sauce Georgia-Style

Hot Salsa Sauce

HOT CHILI HOT SAUCE

DRY RUBS

SPICY GARLIC MIX FOR TAILGATERS

HOT SPICY SEASONING MIXES

Hot Spicy and Sweet mix for Desserts

Homemade Pizza Seasoning Mix

Relishes and Pickles Vegetables and Fruits

Pickled Grape Tomatoes

Hot and Spicy Pickled Peaches

Hot Spicy Chow Chow

Hot Spicy Pear Relish

Hot Spicy Pickled Okra

Pickled Jalapeno Peppers

African Heritage -Atlantic Coastline

Historic High Country

Hot Grits

Patty Sausages

Streak O’ Lean

Salmon Patties

Pepper Sawmill Gravy

Hot Biscuits

Northeast Georgia Mountains

RECIPES

Stuffed Pork Sausages

Fried Rabbit Recipe

Ash Cakes

Atlanta Metro

RECIPES

Wild Turkey

Wild Rice

Waiting on Tables

Presidential Pathways

RECIPES

Okra Gumbo

Baked Sweet Potatoes in the Fireplace

Hot Hoe Cakes

Hog Killing Time

Historic Heartland

RECIPES

Barbeque Pulled Pork

Barbecue sauce

Fried Chicken

Chicken and Rice

Ginger Bread or Molasses Syrup Bread

CHRISTMAS ON THE GULLATT PLANTATION

Classic South

RECIPES

Hoppin’ Johns

Boiled Collard Greens

Fried Country Cured Hog Jowl

Plantation Trace

RECIPES

Boiled Pig’s Feet

Boiled Turnips And Cornmeal Dumplings Recipe

Fried Corn Bread Patties Recipe

Magnolia Midlands

Sweet Potato Pone

PULLING CANDY ON ONE GEORGIA PLANTATION

Georgia’s Coast

RECIPES

Shrimp ’n Grits

RECIPES

Brunswick Stew

Low-Country Boil

Introduction

Hot/Spicy Homemade Christmas or Unexpected Anytime Gifts Cookbook is dedicated to the adventurous, present day cooks, who love to give delectable gifts sealed in one half or pint-size wide mouth Mason jars. Included in the cookbook are recipes for prepared 6 to 12 one- half or pint size jars. I have borrowed some recipes and ideas from lots of my friends— who are excellent cooks and love to give gifts in jars. I have added to or developed many of these gifts. I give honor to them because all of them are from Georgia and they learned most of the recipes through generations and down through the years. My friends stated that their old folks called adding hot and spicy peppers to foods labeled the type of cooking giving the food a ‘kick’.

At meal time in Georgia, everyday one can find a source of green peppers such as a green jalapeno, hot tomato relish or red hot sauce or hot pepper sauce on the table. These condiments are eaten as an accompaniment to boiled leafy greens, such as, collards, cabbage, turnips, kale, and rutabaga tops. Sometimes, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper and hot peppers are used as seasoning agents in preparing boiled greens, boiled peanuts, red beans, field peas, and sweet potato dishes.

In this cookbook, I use one-half and one pint size wide mouth jars The recipes are adjusted or adapted for different occasions. They are given as hot/spicy love gifts. For the jams, jellies and preserves, I have adapted some of the popular companies preservation methods. I completed the recipes by the handed-down recipes but I have written the recipes according to the proper methods. However, in selected recipes I included longer cooking times.

The title of the cookbook is Hot/Spicy Homemade Christmas or Unexpected Anytime Gifts Glimpses on Slavery. The Glimpses on Slavery are historical facts told through interviews with ex-slaves. The cookbook is dedicated to all ancestors of slaves and former slaves. Parts of the cookbook been dedicated to how slaves celebrated Christmas and New Year’s Day on Georgia Plantations. Throughout the cookbook, references to ex-slave interviews were taken from the interviews written by Federal Writers in the state of Georgia as a part of the by the Works Progress Administration Project from 1935-1938.

The contents of this cookbook represent the kinds of foods Georgians give for gifts to relatives and friends at Christmas or at any time of the year. All of the products are made from mostly Georgia grown products, especially fruits and vegetables. The recipes are made in Georgia.

Many African-American Georgians enjoy eating hot, spicy foods. As an added interest, meals have spicy peppers included in entrees, side dishes, condiments, jellies and jams. In this cookbook, I have included cayenne peppers, red pepper flakes or jalapeño peppers to dishes suggested by friends- appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, condiments and many more.

During slavery, slaves developed many types of preservation methods for vegetables and fruits in their cabins. The tastes of sweet and spicy were used daily. Some select recipes for preparing pickled peppers, pickled tomatoes, hot relishes made from pears, cabbage and cucumbers have been handed- down. Jellies and jams also were made in the cabins.

Organization of the Cookbook

In each section, there will be recipes, section on ex-slaves sayings about the holidays and slavery in general. Even though, I have canned products, I have included few menus and recipes popular during slavery times in the nine different districts of Georgia.

On the Georgia plantations, the slaves celebrated Christmas in a great way.