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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Field Peas
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Field peas are a regional thing also. I'm really not sure how much of the Southeast eats them. They are a staple here. When I was growing up we would grow, pick and shell them, all while hearing stories from the old people; definitely some of my fondest memories. When I was in high school we got an electric pea sheller. We went high tech. Now you just go to a farm or produce market and by 25 lb bags of them (already shelled), blanch them as normal and freeze as normal.
As my Mama Gladys says, "A good Southern cook uses 3 things in her cooking: salt, fat and sugar." It's true. For instance, the peas got a tsp or two of sugar, a tsp or so of salt and a ham hock for fat/flave!
As my Mama Gladys says, "A good Southern cook uses 3 things in her cooking: salt, fat and sugar." It's true. For instance, the peas got a tsp or two of sugar, a tsp or so of salt and a ham hock for fat/flave!
Peas and corn
Cookin' up some vittles with my Mama Carmi's (RIP) pots.
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Cornpone - The Recipe
Cryptic recipe
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As you can see, the recipe is quite basic.
Here it is from how I made it tonight:
Put 2TBS oil in a skillet (cover the bottom) and put it in the oven while it preheats to 400. I use olive oil.
1.5 cups fine white corn meal
1 tsp salt
1 TBS baking powder
1.5 cups hot tap water.
Mix all the dry stuff. Mix in the hot water gradually. You want the batter to be not soupy, but not too thick. See pics above for how the batter should look. You want it to spread out a bit when it is spooned in the hot skillet. Bake for 30 minutes.
Yummy!
It's funny how simple and cheap it is. No wonder my country kinfolk lived on the stuff!
Cornpone - The Cornmeal
Hoover's
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Someone from my job asked me for the recipe for cornpone. I had to make it tonight so I could write it down. We grew up on it in my family.
The first thing about it is the meal. It has to be fine white corn meal. Hoover's that you see in the picture can only be found in my region, as it's ground in my home town of Chipley, FL. I looked all over Birmingham, AL one time and couldn't find it. Dixie Lily, I think, makes a fine white corn meal too that would probably work fine.
I downloaded all these pics from my phone. You can only do one at a time. Apologies.
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