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Buttermilk chess pie in a pan

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How to Bake a Buttermilk Chess Pie

Originally published April 6, 2011. Pie is the new cupcake. Did you know that? That's why I've spent the last month
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How to Bake Biscuits with Chef Scott Peacock

Biscuits are containers of memory and emotion.~ Chef Scott Peacock In March 2019, when the camellias were fully
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Muscadines are Autumn’s Wild Grapes

The muscadine season in Georgia lasts just a couple of months in autumn, but like it is with the sweetest watermelons of
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Rice pudding | Photo by Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

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Rice Pudding, for Cheryl

Here's a popular story from the first incarnation of A Cook and Her Books. It's the simplest dessert I know, rice
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Lemon pound cake on a cake plate

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Luscious Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake (for National Pound Cake Day)

I'm not sure how or why there is a National Pound Cake Day, but here it is the 4th day of March, in the holiday lull
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Not My Mama’s Black Eyed Peas & Greens

This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog December 26, 2010. Visit my mom’s house on New Year’s Day and you
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Favorite Southern Christmas cookies

“Oh Buddy, I think it’s fruitcake weather,” goes the opening line to one of the best short stories ever written (and
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Low Country Love: Shrimp & Grits

If there is a universal code of comfort food, surely shrimp and grits would be part of it. If I were writing the rules,
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7 Layer Salad Recipe

This story with 7 Layer Salad Recipe first published on my blogspot blog as "P is for Potluck (and Peas!)" Contrary
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