The African-American cuisine of this unique South Carolina island and subculture is featured here in this plentiful, delicious collection of recipes for salads and side dishes, seafood, meat and game, rice, quick and easy meals, breads, and desserts. Sallie Ann Robinson presents the robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the West African-influenced Gullah culture still found there. Daufuskie folk have traditionally relied on the fresh ingredients found on the land and in the waters around them. Foreword xiii Pat Conroy Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1(1) Island Life 1(5) Yondah Times 6(3) Times Come a Changin' 9(9) Living and Cooking on 'Fuskie Time 13(5) Spoken Language on Daufuskie 18(2) Recipes and Measurements 20(5) Healthier Fixin' and Mixin' 23(2) Salads 25(14) Nut and Apple Salad 26(1) Tossed Coleslaw 26(1) Hand-Picked Cucumber and Tomato Salad 27(1) Mixed Fruit and Nut Salad 27(2) Tada Salad 29(2) Momma's Shrimp and Tada Salad 31(1) Blossom's Chicken Salad 32(2) Turkey Salad 34(1) Sallie's Seafood Salad 34(1) Cast Net Shrimp Salad 35(1) Islander Crab Salad 36(2) Tuna and Macaroni Salad 38(1) The Garden 39(16) Black-Eyed Pea Soup 43(1) Country-Fried Cabbage with Ham 44(1) Momma's Homegrown Collards 44(2) Yellow Squash with Bacon 46(1) Sea Island Okra Gumbo 46(2) Ham Hocks and Rutabagas 48(1) Smokin' Joe Butter Beans 49(1) Snap Beans with Tadas 50(1) Turnips and Greens 51(1) Gullah-Fried Sweet Tadas 52(1) Boiled Peanuts 53(2) The River 55(26) Broken Crab and Okra Stew 57(1) 'Fuskie Crab Patties 58(3) Scoop Net Fried Crab 61(1) Fried Crab Stew 61(1) Poppin' Fried Shrimp 62(2) Cooper River Smuttered Shrimp 64(1) Daufuskie Catfish and Shrimp Mull 64(1) Fried Shark 65(1) Dockside Baked Sheepshead 66(1) Pop's Smuttered Mullet (with Stiff Grits) 67(2) Benjie's Point Stewed Croaker 69(1) Skillet-Fried Trout 69(3) Fried Whiting 72(1) Conch Soup (with Smoked Neck Bone) 73(2) Shuckin' Fried Oysters 75(2) Pickin' Oyster Stew 77(4) The Yard 81(26) Pork Chops with Gravy 83(2) Barbecue Spareribs 85(2) Fried Ribs 87(1) Roaster Pan Baked Ham 88(1) Down-Home Chitlins 88(2) Sloppin' Trotters (Pigs' Feet) 90(1) Pig Tails with Tomatoes 91(1) Neck Bone, Tada, and Tomato Soup 92(1) Lowcountry Oxtails with Ham Hocks 92(1) Fixin' and Mixin' Meatloaf 93(1) Homey Beef Stew 94(1) Smuttered Cube Steak 95(1) Ol'-Fashion Pot Roast 96(2) Country-Fried Liver with Onions 98(1) Runaway Fried Chicken 99(2) Stewed Chicken Feet 101(1) Yard-Raised, Oven-Baked Chicken 102(1) Down Yondah Chicken Stew 102(2) Turkey Wings with Gravy 104(1) Barbecue Turkey Wings 105(2) The Woods 107(14) Eight-Point-Buck Stew 109(1) Deer Roast 110(1) Southern Deer Burger 111(1) Ol' Field Fried Rabbit 112(1) Smuttered Rabbit 113(2) Fried Squirrel 115(2) Native Squirrel Stew 117(1) Backwoods Baked Barbecue Coon 118(1) Pot Full o' Coon 119(1) Baked Possum 120(1) Rice Dishes 121(16) Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice 124(2) Ova Deh Shrimp and Rice 126(3) Oysters and Rice 129(1) Crackin' Conch and Rice 130(1) Seafood Rice 131(1) Generations Hoppin' John 132(2) Sizzlin' Sausage Red Rice 134(1) Chicken and Rice 135(2) Quick Meals 137(8) Anything Rice 138(3) Macaroni and Cheese 141(1) Pork and Beans with Sausage or Bacon 142(1) Sweet Peas and Hamburger 142(1) Stewed Tomatoes with Ham 143(1) Sardines with Bacon 143(1) Canned Salmon with Bacon and Onions 144(1) Breads and Sweets 145(22) Hand-Tossed Fluffy Biscuits 147(1) Grandmomma's Woodstove Cornbread 148(2) Bacon Grease Cornbread Stuffing 150(1) Age-Ol' Cracklin' Bread 151(1) Roadside Blueberry Biscuits 151(1) Tree-Ripened Apple Pie 152(2) Tummy-Yum Bread Pudding 154(2) Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling 156(2) Sallie's Favorite Carrot Cake 158(1) Thick-Crust Peach Cobbler 159(1) 'Fuskie Pear Bread 160(2) Sister's Pound Cake 162(1) Pumpkin Bread 163(1) Vine-Ripened Pumpkin Pie 163(2) Sweet Tada Bread 165(1) Sweet Tada Pone 165(2) Index 167