Arkansas

• Arkansas Cheese Dip

  The orange restaurant dip of central Arkansas: mild green chiles, cumin and a pound of American cheese taken to a pour that holds all night over a low flame.

  Total

  25 min

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  280 per serving

• Chocolate Gravy over Biscuits

  Cocoa, sugar and flour cooked into a thin sweet gravy and poured over split hot biscuits — the Ozark breakfast that is built exactly like sausage gravy and tastes nothing like it.

  Total

  40 min

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  745 per serving

• Fried Peach Hand Pies

  Dried peaches stewed back to a stiff dark paste, sealed in a lard crust and fried in an inch of fat — the winter pie of the upland South, built to be carried.

  Total

  3 hr 15 min

  Serves

  12

  Calories

  375 per pie

• Pan-Fried White River Trout

  A whole pan-dressed trout in white cornmeal, fried hard in lard in one skillet and turned once — the fish a federal dam put in an Arkansas river that never had one.

  Total

  40 min

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  445 per serving

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