Family Recipes From Rosedown & Catalpa Plantations

Dixie biscuits, divinity candy, pond lily salad, lightning cake, and foolish pie are just a few of the names of delightful dishes included in this collection from two legendary plantations in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Nearly three hundred recipes, originating from English and Scottish relatives, slave cooks, and neighbors are included here, preceded by a brief history of plantation life and plantation cooking in the antebellum South, as well as firsthand memories of Rosedown. Found by researchers exploring the Catalpa Plantation attic, many of these original family "receipts" are used in the present-day Rosedown Plantation kitchen demonstrations. Recipes for familiar comfort foods such as corn fritters, green pepper pickles, stuffed eggs, turkey gumbo, lobster croquettes, Thanksgiving relish, bread pudding, and many more are included, offering an abundant selection of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culinary favorites. Rosedown and Catalpa are both connected to two of the most prominent early plantation families in the region--the Barrows and the Forts. Martha Turnbull was the granddaughter of Olivia Ruffin Barrow, who originally brought the Barrow family to Louisiana. Two of Martha's grandchildren later married into the Fort family of Catalpa Plantation, joining these distinguished families together. The book is compiled, researched, and written by former Rosedown employee Richard Scott, Rosedown Plantation volunteer Stella M. Pitts, and Mary Thompson, great-niece of the three legendary Bowman daughters who devoted their lives to the preservation of their family home.Scott, Richard is the author of 'Family Recipes From Rosedown & Catalpa Plantations ', published 2005 under ISBN 9781589802117 and ISBN 158980211X.