Southern Delicacies

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While people from up Nawth mistakenly believe that Southern cooking begins with fried chicken and ends with grits, they don't know the half of it.

This thread is devoted to sharing recipes for simple Southern delicacies that anyone can make, and everyone can enjoy. I am going to get the ball rolling with one of my favorite recipes from Ernest Mickler's classic White Trash Cooking. If you don't have this slender volume, you ougghta!

The Kitchen Sink Sandwich

Ingredients

1 - 2 large fresh picked vine ripened tomatoes
2 slices Wonder Bread or Sunbeam white bread
Salt and pepper
Duke's mayonnaise (No Hellmans! or Miracle Whip!)

Directions

In the peak of tomato season, chill 1 very large or 2 medium size tomatoes that have been vine-ripened and have plenty of juice.
Take 2 slices of bread and coat them each with a good 1/4 inch of Duke's mayonnaise.
Add layer of tomatoes cut 1/4 inch thick.
Salt & Pepper to taste.
Add another slice of tomatoes and salt and pepper to taste again.
Add the other piece of bread on top of this.
Roll up your sleeves and start eating over the kitchen sink while the juice runs down off'n your elbows.

:D

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Dashriprock said:
While I certainly adore all the facets of Southern cooking I've experienced on my forays into yer neck o' the woods, that sammich included, you best give credit where credit's due:

That there recipe is verbatim out of Ernest Matthew Mickler's marvelous cookbook, White Trash Cooking. I've owned a copy since the late 1980s (note that those copies now sell for $400 or so,) and "it's some good!"

White Trash Cooking: 25th Anniversary Edition (Jargon): Ernest Matthew Mickler: 9781607741879: Amazon.com: Books
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Uh, did you read the second graph in my post? I explicitly credit Mr. Mickler's book, and wouldn't dream of not doing that.
 
I love tomato sandwiches, but I didn't know there was a recipe you had to follow. I like brown wheat bread and a good homegrown tomato. For desert another tomato sandwich is in order.

What is better? One of my Mother's homemade biscuits with a slice of homegrown tomato. She is long gone, but I think of her every day.

Have a blessed day,

Leon
 
Rule3 said:
But for the true culinary masters of the Mater samich, what heirloom mater is the BEST to use??:D

Then of course is the correct white bread??

This can get complicated!
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I prefer beefsteak tomatoes, but since you want to use something homegrown so that it is dead fresh off the vine, I would use whatever tangy flavorful tomato does best in your neck of the woods. For many people that will be a Big Boy or a Better Boy. As to bread: I am a purist on this -- only Sunbeam or Wonder Bread.
 
MATERS A SOUTHERN THING?

Italians up Nawth have been growing matters very well for some time. Maybe not with the white bread. Instead sliced with Mozzarella, basil, olive oil, or COOKED in "gravy". A cold sammich aint cooked. I was hoping for sausage gravy, BBQ, pulled pork, catfish, hush puppies perhaps. Pretty much ANY kind of homemade cornbread/ hard bread/ hush puppy/ biscuit beats that mushy nutritionally empty white bread by a country mile. Gotta go with dukes over Hellman's or the whip though.
 
Must be some pretty rowdy tomatoes if ya gotta subdue them with a gun. :D (What is the best caliber for tomato hunting?)

BLTs... mmmmmmmmmmm!!! #2 on my list: No tomatoes involved, but the only other sandwich that even comes close for me is a good Cuban! (Did a twist on them the other day with thinly sliced venison. WOW!)
 
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Ever here of bruschetta? My goombah's have been combining bread with tomato's since before there was a North and South.
Can't see tomato on white bread with mayo being a Southern thing either. You could order that in any deli in metro N.Y., at least up until I left in 91'. It was a favorite of my Father.
Now being in the South for 26 years I have come to appreciate a few of their delicacies.
Southern biscuits. Chicken biscuit, sausage biscuit, about anything on a Southern biscuit is good. Biscuits and gravy ain't bad, but not something you want to make a habit of should you want to live past 30.
Uh... I can't think of anything else.
 
Simple Drumettes: grill Drumettes over hot flame turning them until golden brown.
Simple Sauce: melt a stick of real butter in microwave. Add favorite brand of hot sauce until mixture is orange(adjust to suit).
Serve hot off the grill.
Dunk individual wings as eaten...no double dippin!

The flaps' are ok but the Drumettes are the crowd pleasers.🤠
 
I didn't buy the book when it was published because of the title.
I understand that Mickler, when criticized for the title, tried to differentiate between White Trash
and white trash.

There ain't no difference: White Trash is white trash.
White trash would steal the sweetening out of sugar. Would steal the White off of rice. Will lie when
the truth would do better. White trash lets their young'uns run around nekkid in the yard.
Their little bellies poke out because of poor nutrition, and there is generally snot stringing from their nose.
The women tend to be either very thin, or grossly obese. The men are too sorry to work.
I have known, and know, white trash. As a student (and teacher) of history, I know that white trash were
looked down on by everyone in the South, including slaves and tenant farming blacks.

If Mickler had titled his book something like "Redneck Recipes," I would have probably bought it.
Let there be no mistake, Rednecks and white trash are two distinct examples of white Southerners.
I come from a long line of Rednecks; hard working land-owning farmers whose necks were blistered
from working in the fields in the hot Georgia sun.

Rant Over.:D

My all-time favorite Southern delicacy is boiled peanuts.
I'll post a little treatise I wrote a while back later.
 
My Mother didn’t allow hats-caps to be worn at the table.
Also, you were not allowed to lay your gun on the table.
Yes, I still like Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches.
No, not fried.
I know Elvis liked his fried.
I never even heard of that until I heard that Elvis did it!
Let’s see - I’m alive.
Elvis may be.
He seems to show up in different places, driving a Caddy Convertible and eating cheeseburgers.
It’s hard to get a decent fried banana -peanut butter sand at restaurants!
 
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Even though I am a "semi" Native and wasn't born here (born up Nawth)

and

Florida is not really the "South"
only a few things I will not eat. I can eat, but don't like.

I'll try anything at least once.

Chitlins
Liver
( I see no reason to eat "internal" parts of anything except crabs. clams oysters, etc)

Okra
Lima Beans
:D
 
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