20 Foods On Every Southern Christmas Table That Nobody Makes Anymore
Southern Chicken Mama
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In my house, and in most of the houses on my road, the bird on the Christmas table was not a turkey. It was a hen. A big old laying hen that had stopped laying, baked whole with dressing beside her, and that was Christmas dinner for a family of nine. Turkey came later, when it got cheap and when everybody started seeing the same picture on the same television.
I grew up outside Greenwood, Mississippi, one of seven children, and I cooked in other people's kitchens for thirty four years. Every single dish on this list was on a table I sat at or cooked for.
In this one I give you all twenty old fashioned Southern Christmas recipes and soul food holiday dishes, and what happened to each of them. The packet inside the bird that most people throw straight in the trash on Christmas morning and the whole dish that was made from it. Candied yams before a marketing pamphlet put marshmallows on them. The baked macaroni that sets like a custard and can be cut in squares, and why yours slumps. The cake that took three days on purpose. The candy you cannot make on a humid day. And the potato salad, and the quiet politics of who in the family was allowed to make it.
I also tell you which one on this list I think is genuinely gone for good, and I am honest at the end about the fact that this table was never health food and was never meant to be.
Nobody paid me for this. There is nothing in the description to buy. I do not have a cookbook and I am not going to have one.
Tell me where you are watching from, and tell me what was on your family's Christmas table that is not on this list. And tell me who in your family was allowed to make the potato salad, because I have a feeling that is going to be the best thread in the comments.
Chitterlings must be cleaned meticulously and cooked through, and anything they touch needs washing down after. Boiled custard and eggnog must be properly cooked, or made with pasteurized eggs.
00:00 It was a hen, not a turkey
01:04 The Christmas hen
02:09 The packet everybody throws away
03:47 Real candied yams, no marshmallows
05:43 The potato salad, and who was allowed
07:59 What all of it had in common
08:35 The three day coconut cake
14:10 The one I think is truly gone
20 Foods On Every Southern Christmas Table That Nobody Makes Anymore
Southern Chicken Mama
2,453 views
In my house, and in most of the houses on my road, the bird on the Christmas table was not a turkey. It was a hen. A big old laying hen that had stopped laying, baked whole with dressing beside her, and that was Christmas dinner for a family of nine. Turkey came later, when it got cheap and when everybody started seeing the same picture on the same television.
I grew up outside Greenwood, Mississippi, one of seven children, and I cooked in other people's kitchens for thirty four years. Every single dish on this list was on a table I sat at or cooked for.
In this one I give you all twenty old fashioned Southern Christmas recipes and soul food holiday dishes, and what happened to each of them. The packet inside the bird that most people throw straight in the trash on Christmas morning and the whole dish that was made from it. Candied yams before a marketing pamphlet put marshmallows on them. The baked macaroni that sets like a custard and can be cut in squares, and why yours slumps. The cake that took three days on purpose. The candy you cannot make on a humid day. And the potato salad, and the quiet politics of who in the family was allowed to make it.
I also tell you which one on this list I think is genuinely gone for good, and I am honest at the end about the fact that this table was never health food and was never meant to be.
Nobody paid me for this. There is nothing in the description to buy. I do not have a cookbook and I am not going to have one.
Tell me where you are watching from, and tell me what was on your family's Christmas table that is not on this list. And tell me who in your family was allowed to make the potato salad, because I have a feeling that is going to be the best thread in the comments.
Chitterlings must be cleaned meticulously and cooked through, and anything they touch needs washing down after. Boiled custard and eggnog must be properly cooked, or made with pasteurized eggs.
00:00 It was a hen, not a turkey
01:04 The Christmas hen
02:09 The packet everybody throws away
03:47 Real candied yams, no marshmallows
05:43 The potato salad, and who was allowed
07:59 What all of it had in common
08:35 The three day coconut cake
14:10 The one I think is truly gone