Edna lewis recipes

The recipe for this wonderful regional take on mac and cheese is an adaptation of one in The Gift of Southern Cooking (Knopf, 2003) by Edna Lewis, a Southern culinary legend, and Scott Peacock, the former chef of Atlanta's Watershed restaurant. Two ingredients set this macaroni and cheese apart from the pack: grated onion and Worcestershire sauce.

A classic southern dessert table standout featuring tender layers of vanilla cake enveloped in the most perfect homemade caramel icing.

This recipe for homemade fried apple pies comes from the legendary Edna Lewis. One taste of Lewis’s hand pies and you’ll forget all about fast-food imitations.

My family is obsessed with donuts. After a google search for a donut flavored cake I came across this recipe. It’s a simple butter cake (moist, dense, crumbly and not too sweet) that you could mi…

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Peach cobbler is a classic Southern sweet, and Edna's version involves baking slices of fresh peaches between a homemade pastry crust. Would this cobbler-meets-pie be the best of both worlds? I tried it to find out.

This buttery, fluffy dish comes from Edna Lewis, the African-American chef and cookbook author credited with preserving countless recipes from the old South. It serves as not only a seasonal bridge — a farewell to summer, with winter chill waiting in the wings — but also as a sweetly welcome blurring of the lines between a side dish and a dessert.

“So many great souls have passed off the scene. The world has changed. We are now faced with picking up the pieces and trying to put them into shape, document them so the present-day young ge…

Edna Lewis mastered dozens of bread and biscuit recipes over the years, and in “The Taste of Country Cooking,” she offers two for biscuits; this is the flannel-soft version. Be sure to use homemade baking powder, which you can make easily by sifting together 2 parts cream of tartar with 1 part baking soda. It leaves no chemical or metallic taste.

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