We have a crush on crumb cake this week, and we always have a crush on rhubarb. Therefore, nothing makes more sense to us today than a recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake! Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake (borrowed from Diana Rattray: Southern culinary artist and author of the cookbook, “The About.com Guide to Southern Cooking“) […]
From a graceful little blog called A Southern Grace, comes a tasty recipe for Crumb Cake. This is the kind of cake you have for breakfast when you’re feeling like cake for breakfast is exactly the perfect thing (and we think it often is.) Crumby Crumb Cake (based on this recipe, which is based on […]
Bill Neal tremendously important to the revival of Southern cooking in recent decades. He co-founded and ran La Residence and Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, NC, and wrote several cookbooks. He died far too young at 41, but has left a lasting legacy that extends to all regions of the South and many styles of […]
I found this recipe for Cinnamon Roll Cookies on Sinful Southern Treats. This treat is like the cookie equivalent of a platypus. Is it a cookie or a cinnamon roll? And really, does it matter if it’s as yummy as it looks in the photo below? I am dying to make these, a clever and […]
I found this authentic and easy cobbler recipe on the Rick-Rack and Gingham blog – a blog by a southern grandma who loves to bake and travel around in her RV with her husband of 34 years. Thanks Cindy! …What all Good Southern Women keep up their sleeves for those emergency..ooops.. someone is coming over… […]
“Grazing is a state of being in the South. In fact, many of our community cookbooks from the twentieth century are front-heavy, with so many more hors d’oeuvre and finger-food recipes than main courses (or even desserts) that it makes you wonder why we even bother with the rest of the meal. It’s actually plain […]
Creating the perfect biscuit is a theoretical question with as many answers as there are scientists racing toward finding a unified theory of Everything. With Knoxville’s first International Biscuit Festival on the horizon (June 4th and 5th), featuring a biscuit bake-off, this blog would be amiss if it didn’t feature a favorite classic biscuit recipe […]
The only thing better than eating is reading about eating. So, in saunters Corn Bread Nation and everyone salivates: “Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing” debuted in 2002, and since then readers can’t seem to get enough of this anthology published in conjunction with Southern Foodways Alliance. The fifth and latest anthology was […]
I am completely in love with the idea of having a celebration where each guest brings a single layer for a cake. The collection of layers would then be assembled into a magnificent cake for all to share. It seems that this folktale-like custom is something that actually exists in the South, where a deep […]
If you’re into southern baking enough to be here on this blog, odds are you may not need a primer on southern food, but just in case you want one anyway the good folks over at Southern Foodways have one all wrapped up for you: Southern Food Primer John Egerton writes, “Within the South itself, […]