Alabama
4 dishes from Alabama, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Mature green tomatoes sliced thick, salted until they weep, dredged in cornmeal and fried in bacon fat, with a cream gravy made in the pan they came out of — the way the syndicated columns had it a hundred years before the novel.
- Total
- 50 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 396 per serving
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Lane Cake with Raisin and Whiskey Filling
Four thin white layers split by a cooked filling of eight egg yolks, sugar, butter, clipped raisins and a wine-glass of whiskey, iced in boiled white icing — printed under this name, by the woman whose name it is, in Clayton, Alabama, in 1898.
- Total
- 2 hr 15 min, plus overnight
- Serves
- 16
- Calories
- 565 per serving
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Smoked Chicken with Alabama White Barbecue Sauce
A split bird smoked over hickory until the skin can take a wetting, then lowered whole into cold mayonnaise, cider vinegar and cracked black pepper — the north Alabama finish, which goes on after the fire and never over it.
- Total
- 2 hr 40 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 702 per serving
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West Indies Salad
Mobile's cold crab salad, which is four things and one rule: a pound of lump blue crab and a sliced onion layered in a bowl, doused with oil, cider vinegar and ice water, and then left alone in the refrigerator overnight without being stirred.
- Total
- 4 hr 20 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 302 per serving