Chicken and dumplings are a southern staple. I have heard fairy tales of my grandmother’s famed chicken and dumplings that were as light as air since I was a child. Of course, no one ever wrote the recipe down or taught the next generation to make the angelic dumplings. So, here I am almost seventy years later trying to recreate the flavors of my mother’s childhood.
Posts tagged southern food
Buttermilk Biscuits
These are the biscuits of my childhood. I actually learned to make these biscuits from my grandfather. He would get up early to milk the cows then come in to cook breakfast for the family. Of course, he never measured anything, and he kept the sifter and mixing bowl in the 5-gallon tin with the flour. He just scooped up the right amount of flour with the sifter and eyeballed the rest. They were always perfect!
Frozen Cranberry Salad
My paternal grandmother always served a “salad” with any proper meal. That could be a green salad, fruit salad, Jell-O salad, canned pear with cheese, mayo and maraschino cherry on lettuce, or a frozen salad. I always thought the frozen salads should be dessert! Some had sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream…mercy. They were all delicious and still taste like “childhood.”
This frozen cranberry salad is a holiday tradition in our family. I always wondered why we didn’t have it the rest of the year. Maybe my healthier version will be a little more guilt free! Or, a popsicle.