Voter’s Choice — Recipes

Published 4:56 pm Tuesday, October 23, 2018

By Staff Reports

Favorites from The Branton Family Cookbook

The following recipes are from a collection of our family’s favorite recipes pulbished in 2008 — good ole southern cooking from Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana — something other than Cajun., usually served with butter beans, squash, turnip greens, cornbread and other farm fresh vegetables.

 

Chicken & Dumplings

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

Large Fryer or hen preferably, boiled and de-boned, reserve broth

Salt and pepper

Milk as needed

Butter as needed

Cool broth from boiled chicken. Combine dry ingredients and then add cooled broth to the right consistency to roll dumplings. Roll dumplings to approximately 1/8 inch. Return remainder of broth to pan with de-boned chicken and bring to boil. Cut dumplings in 1-2-inch squares and drop into boiling chicken broth. Add milk, approximately 1 cup, to desired gravy thickness. Cook until dumplings are puffy and tender.

Note: a shortcut for easy dumplings, cut flour tortillias into squares, and proceed as above. 

By the late Vyrah Mann

 

Beef and Beans

1 lb ground beef

1 onion, chopped

1 green pepper, chopped

1 large can of Pork & Beans

Brown Sugar to taste

Salt & Pepper to taste 

Cook beef, with onion and peppers, until brown.  Drain and return to a Dutch oven or similar pot.  Add pork and beans and brown sugar stirring completely.  Heat thoroughly and keep warm until ready to serve.

By Barbara Hayes Bridges

 

Meatloaf

1 1/2 to 2-pounds of ground beef

1 large onion, chopped or 1 cup packaged pre-chopped onion, bell pepper, celery mixture

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 Tablespoon chopped garlic, heaping

1 egg beaten slightly

1/2 cup evaporated milk or other

1/2 to 3/4 cup cooked rice

1 small can tomato sauce

1/2 cup tomato catsup, more if desired

Mix all ingredients except tomato paste and catsup. Form into 2-3 loaves and place in baking dish.  Pour tomato sauce over loaves then pour catsup over tomato sauce.  Bake in 350 degrees oven until completely cooked, approximately 45 minutes.

Note:  You may use spaghetti sauce over meat loaf is desired or for a little change in taste.  You may also use this mixture to stuff bell peppers or make both in the same baking dish.

By the late Earlene Mann Branton

 

Mister Gerald’s BBQ Chicken

Choose favorite chicken pieces (quarters, halves or individual pieces).  Place on bar-b-que grill and brush with first mixture. 

First Mixture:

1/2  cup oil

1/2  cup vinegar

Salt & Pepper

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce

Chopped onion 

Then, brush often on both sides turning several times until tender with second mixture.

Second Mixture: 

1 stick butter, melted

6 lemons, juiced

Salt & Pepper

Note:  This recipe will marinade 4 chicken halves. Increase proportionately as needed depending on the number of chickens being cooked.  Delicious!

By the late Gerald McLendon

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