At nine have a quick cup of coffee and dump 1/2 cup in the beans if you want. Add 1 large, finely minced onion at eight when you're blueing the overalls. Put on with the wash water about six in the morning, with bacon, or ham. Put Navy beans in a big pot of salted water to soak overnight. Many of the recipes are written in a folksy manner with comments by the creators included. I learned the difference between Hoppin' John and Limpin' Susan - the former uses cowpeas, the latter okra - and both use 4 strips of bacon. And even the vegetables are fried in fatback. An iron skillet is as important to these recipes as a wok to Chinese cooking. White Trash cooking is a "kissin' cousin" to Soul Food, but what sets it apart from other kinds of cooking are three ingredients - saltmeat, cornmeal and molasses. And I definitely want to try this Jail-House Chili. Mama Two's Pralines sound seriously yummy. And Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup rears its ugly head a few times. As one Goodread's friend asked, "I'm betting a lot of the White Trash cooking involves Ritz Crackers, eh?" Well, yeah. I was unsure of what to expect from this book. we are "in love" with our bad times and weakest characters, we laugh at our worst tragedies, and with a gourmet's delight enjoy our simplest meals. In his introduction, Mickler describes "White Trash" - distinguished from the "common white trash" who lack pride and manners - in this way: Nowadays, it is used as a pejorative for poor, uneducated Southerners. The term "white trash" was originally used by slaves in the 1830s to describe poor whites.
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