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Post by Walter on Dec 30, 2017 15:20:39 GMT -5
I always remember that Southern thing about New Years and black-eyed peas about 4P NY's eve. But this year, I'm ready.
So, now what?
What do you southern gentlemen generally do with them? What do you generally eat them with?
Do you go all southern and eat them with collards and hocks or some such?
Ideas. I need ideas.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 21:27:53 GMT -5
Eat them with a nice Chianti.
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Post by AlaCowboy on Dec 30, 2017 22:03:44 GMT -5
I always remember that Southern thing about New Years and black-eyed peas about 4P NY's eve. But this year, I'm ready. So, now what? What do you southern gentlemen generally do with them? What do you generally eat them with? Do you go all southern and eat them with collards and hocks or some such? Ideas. I need ideas.
For the black-eyed peas, I cook them on NY Eve in a big pot with a ham bone with some meat still on the bone. I use the ham bone left from Christmas dinner. I like my peas cooked a little soft and quite soupy. Crumble up some cornbread in a big bowl and spoon peas and soup on top. Make sure to get some of the ham in there. Mighty good eatin'.
Save one big piece of cornbread for the evening. Crumble it in a bowl, pour on some sweet milk (that's what we call whole milk down here) and that's your after-dinner snack.
My New Years breakfast is johnny cakes. 1 cup white corn meal in a bowl, add milk and stir to a medium thick batter, add one egg, 1 tbs bacon grease and mix. Fry on a cast iron plate on bacon grease. Butter well, and either honey or sorghum syrup.
Now, some purists will say use water only and not milk and egg, but I like the flavor better. Yankees add sugar to the batter, but they're Yankees so what do they know?
Johnny cakes came from the Caribbean Islanders in the late 1700s. There they were called journey cakes and were made for one to eat on the way to work or to town. Mispronunciation in America made it johnny cake. In the Gullah communities in coastal South Carolina and Georgia they still call them journey cakes, but you can barely understand their dialect. |
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Post by bamorin on Jan 3, 2018 17:21:12 GMT -5
but they're Yankees so what do they know?Johnny cakes came from the Caribbean Islanders in the late 1700s. There they were called journey cakes and were made for one to eat on the way to work or to town. Mispronunciation in America made it johnny cake. In the Gullah communities in coastal South Carolina and Georgia they still call them journey cakes, but you can barely understand their dialect. [/i][/b][/font][/quote] Because "yankee's" invented 'em about 8,000 years ago........the Islanders you speak of were the tribal members sold to the caribbean islands. Original recipe was corn and acorn flour held together with bear or caribou fat |
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