Nancie McDermott — a North Carolina author who wrote the book(s) on Southern cakes and pies — weighs in on the benefits of making a mess in the kitchen.
BLT Pasta Salad
Enjoy the delicious flavors of a BLT in this pasta salad.
Sweet Potato Biscuits with Honey Butter
A smear of honey butter on these sweet potato biscuits makes them extra delicious. Try this recipe from Saint James United Methodist Cooks.
Mrs. Deberry’s Butter Bean Casserole
Do you love butter beans? Try Mrs. Deberry's Butter Bean Casserole from St. James United Methodist Church's cookbook.
Whiskey Apple Pie
This apple pie recipe has a slight twist — add whiskey like the old-timers did at the James K. Polk House in North Carolina.
Ocracoke Fig Preserves Cake with Buttermilk Glaze
Most bakers use the type of jam or preserve that is most plentiful in that place. So it stands to reason that along the Outer Banks, that is going to be fig preserves.
Muscadine Wine Cake
Smart bakers also pour a little fruit of the vine into the popular muscadine cake.
Cheerwine Pound Cake
Cheerwine pound cake might sound like a novelty, but it is a seriously good and proper pound cake, worthy of a place on a cake stand.
Black Walnut Pound Cake with Old-Fashioned Penuche Frosting
Try this classic brown-sugar pound cake studded with the delicious nuts and crowned with a veneer of old-fashioned penuche frosting.
