Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night [electronic resource].

ISBN:

9780807889640

Title:

Author:

Robinson, Sallie Ann.

Personal Author:

Robinson, Sallie Ann.

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""My Daufuskie Gullah""; ""Working and Playing on Daufuskie""; ""Water""; ""Washday""; ""Playtime""; ""Changes""; ""MORNING""; ""Day Clean Breakfast""; ""Southern Skillet Fried Bread""; ""Crispy Smoked Bacon and Cheese Grits""; ""Scrambled Eggs with Onion, Bell Pepper, and Cheese""; ""Sallieâ€?s Best Milk and Egg Toast""; ""Down-Home Fruity Pancakes""; ""Island Fried Grits with Onions""; ""Country Fried Fish with Grits""; ""Preserving It""; ""Jamminâ€? Grape Jelly""; ""Sassy Strawberry Preserves""; ""Precious Pear Preserves""

""Fruity Fig Preserves""""Willing Watermelon Rind Preserves""; ""Prissy Peach Preserves""; ""Blackberry Preserves""; ""Mommaâ€?s Preserved Okra and Tomatoes""; ""Preserved String Beans and Tadas""; ""Muffins""; ""Carolina Blueberry Muffins""; ""Homemade Apple Nut Cinnamon Muffins""; ""Comeyah Banana Nut Muffins""; ""Grandmommaâ€?s Sweet Tada Muffins""; ""Gullah Bacon Corn Muffins""; ""Hearty Oatmeal Raisin Muffins""; ""Mommaâ€?s Crackling Muffins""; ""NOON""; ""Sandwiches""; ""Fried Shrimp Sandwich with Lettuce and Tomato""; ""Fried Soft-Shell Crab Sandwich""; ""Open-Face Crabmeat Sandwich""

""Baked or Broiled Fish Sandwich""""Fried Oyster Sandwich""; ""Soups""; ""Grandmommaâ€?s Chicken Noodle Soup""; ""â€?Fuskie Seafood Gumbo""; ""Island Shrimp Creole""; ""Easy Vegetable Soup""; ""Cabbage Soup""; ""Carolina Chili""; ""Yondah Black-Eyed Pea Soup""; ""Specialties""; ""Creamy Garlic Butter Mashed Tadas""; ""Garlic Home Fries""; ""Homemade Meatballs""; ""Sallieâ€?s Seafood Spaghetti""; ""Homemade Cheese Biscuits""; ""Ham and Tada Salad""; ""Chicken Coop Egg Salad""; ""Daufuskie-Way Deviled Eggs""; ""NIGHT""; ""Homemade Wines""; ""â€?Fuskie Backyard Pear Wine""; ""Orchard Plum Wine""

""Persimmon Wine""""Backyard Mulberry Wine""; ""â€?Fuskie Peach Wine""; ""Roadside Blackberry Wine""; ""Grandmommaâ€?s Favorite Elderberry Wine""; ""Pleasing Drinks""; ""Olâ€? Country Lemonade with Orange""; ""Fresh Mellow Mint Tea""; ""Soothing Sassafras Tea""; ""Orange Peel Tea""; ""Country Hot Toddy""; ""Stuffing It Full""; ""Flounder Full of Crabmeat""; ""Salmon Stuffed with Crabmeat and Shrimp""; ""Pork Chops with Cornbread Stuffing""; ""Grilling""; ""Sizzling Grilled Shrimp""; ""Grillinâ€? Great Fish""; ""Best Barbecue-Grill Honey Chicken""; ""Grilled Corn on the Cob in the Husk""

""Grilled Fresh Vegetables""""Seafood Isnâ€?t All Fried""; ""Local Sea Island Country Boil""; ""Gullah Garlic Butter Shrimp""; ""Bushel Basket of Boiled Crabs""; ""Tangy Lemon Shrimp""; ""Boiled Conch""; ""Steamed or Roasted Oysters""; ""Desserts and Cookies""; ""Country Candied Yams with Raisins""; ""Southern Sweet Tada Pie with Pecan Topping""; ""Peanut Butter Cookies""; ""Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans""; ""Oatmeal Raisin Cookies""; ""Pecan Crunch Cookies""; ""GULLAH FOLK BELIEFS & HOME REMEDIES""; ""Living with Nature""; ""Sea Island Folk Beliefs""; ""Voodoo/Hoodoo""

""â€?Fuskie Old-Fashioned Home Remedies""

Subject Term:

African American cookery.

Gullahs - Sea Islands.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2007

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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Summary

Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although technology and development were slow in coming to Daufuskie, the island is now changing rapidly. With this book, Robinson highlights some of her favorite memories and delicious recipes from life on Daufuskie, where the islanders traditionally ate what they grew in the soil, caught in the river, and hunted in the woods.

The unique food traditions of Gullah culture contain a blend of African, European, and Native American influences. Reflecting the rhythm of a day in the kitchen, from breakfast to dinner (and anywhere in between), this cookbook collects seventy-five recipes for easy-to-prepare, robustly flavored dishes. Robinson also includes twenty-five folk remedies, demonstrating how in the Gullah culture, in the not-so-distant past, food and medicine were closely linked and the sea and the land provided what islanders needed to survive. In her spirited introduction and chapter openings, Robinson describes how cooking the Gullah way has enriched her life, from her childhood on the island to her adulthood on the nearby mainland.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Gullah are the hardscrabble South Carolina Low Country descendants of plantation slaves, and their meals reveal African, Jamaican and Caribbean influences. Robinson was raised on Daufuskie Island, an isolated Gullah bastion near Hilton Head. She combines a memoir of growing up with her nine siblings and down-to-earth recipes to cover each meal of the day. Most of her remembrances involve chores and the fertile life of the island, though she also includes a fine chapter on "Folk Beliefs and Home Remedies," where we learn that ear cleaning should be done with a hen's feather (never a rooster's) and that a "handful of spider web" makes for an excellent bandage. As for the recipes, each could be filed under one or more of the three S's: simple, soul food or seafood. For breakfast, there is Country Fried Fish with Grits. Lunchtime sandwiches include Fried Soft-Shell Crab, which could be paired with 'Fuskie Seafood Gumbo with a stock made from fatback bacon and pig tail. Dinner entrees come stuffed, like Flounder Full of Crabmeat, which can be grilled or steamed. All the dishes can be washed down with one of her seven homemade wines, which generally involve adding five pounds of sugar to five pounds of fruit (like persimmons or peaches) and a gallon of water. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

Robinson first wrote about her life growing up on Daufuskie Island-off South Carolina and the setting for Pat Conroy's memoir The Water Is Wide-in Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way. Isolated from the mainland until fairly recently, the island was, as historian Jessica Harris writes in her foreword, a "cultural microclimate where the traditions of times past were kept alive." Along with down-home recipes ranging from Momma's Cracking Muffins to Country Fried Fish with Grits, Robinson includes more reminiscences and anecdotes about her extended family-she was one of 12 children-as well as a chapter on Gullah folk beliefs and home remedies of all sorts. For area libraries and other collections on regional American cooking. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.