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I think everyone who is not used to eating cole slaw on their sandwiches/hot dogs have the same initial reaction. We never ate it as a "side" growing up, always "on" something .
Ed & Betty,
I don't know how my grandma made the fried cornbread. I know she used white cornmeal instead of yellow and fried it in a cast-iron skillet. I guess she mixed it with maybe water or milk and dropped it in the oil/Crisco/lard---not sure what she used (she grew up on a farm, no telling what was in the skillet, but gosh it was good!) The only thing I know is that you had to eat them right out of the pan, if they sat around, IMO they weren't any good.
I have asked my mother on many occasions and she doesn't know for sure exactly what went in them. She suggested that we play around one day with the recipe, but I just know it won't turn out the same.
There's probably a name for the "fried" cornbread, but we always called it, cornbread.
My vote goes to Chicken and Dumplins with cornbread. My grandmother made the best and used to always bring it around when I was sick. Not feeling so good today and I sure wish she was still around. I know she's in heaven too, making buscuits from scratch, another of her specialties.
Fried cornbread that I was raised on...cornmeal, one egg, and milk enough to make it like pancake batter. Plenty of oil or whatever grease you want to use - they're almost deep fried. I like onions in mine every time, sometimes jalepenos, but those are optional. Enjoy!
For sweet tea you basically boil the sugar and water together (but don't boil for long once it starts) before you make the tea. Use the proportions that get the tea as sweet as you like.
Ok...this is going to sound kinda goofy, you boil your water with sugar and then you make your tea and add that?
thanks again!
I knew I was pretty close, but I've never made them. I like them thin also, mmmmmm they are good.
Mysteri,
I boil my water in a regular tea pot (about 3/4 of the way full), then put in 3 family size tea bags and let it steep. I would say for at least 10-15 minutes, but you can definitely let it steep longer (I like my tea strong).
Then, I pour the tea into my large pitcher that came with the tea-making machine (I don't remember the name of that silly invention and I never liked the way my tea turned out, BUT I do like the pitcher, it's nice and big) and then I add about 1/2-2/3 of a cup of sugar-I usually start with 1/2 cup, then if I taste when its finished and it needs more, I'll add it. Some like their tea super sweet, others, not as sweet.
Then I add water to fill the pitcher about 3/4 of the way full. Then stir. It makes a lot of tea! (Be sure to taste test the tea AFTER you add the additional water, hee hee)
eastern NC BBQ with slaw
carolina packers (bright leaf) hotdogs with homemade chili and slaw
collards, butterbeans, rutebagas
fried chicken and chicken pastry (dumplins)
I lived away from here for about 10 yrs (I had to beg uncle sam to let us come back)and when I'd come home to visit, we always took back bbq and hotdogs. There's nothing like them anywhere else in teh world.
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