Recipes    Recipes I have listed below (click to view them): 
 
                           Fried Green Tomatoes
                           Grandma's Fried Gopher with Gravy
                           Pea Pickin Cake
                           Mama's Squash, Potatoes, and Hamburger Dish
                           Strawberry Cake
                           Sweet Tater Pie
 
I'm not sure where all these recipes come from. I just stole them from my momma's collection that she had from my grandma.  They are actually from both of them because  we had to reduce Grandma Jone's recipes.  They had very large quantities because they fed all those children she had.  A few recipes belonged to my aunt too.
 
 
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
 
As many tomatoes as you have people for lunch
mix 1/2 cup flour with 1/2 cup cornmeal.
Put salt in mixture combine in large bowl.
add 1 egg and 1 cup buttermilk.
Next add tomatoes and toss to coat. Place in colander with bowl beneath
to catch batter.
Fry in cast iron skillet with oil and over medium heat.
 
Put on brown paper bag to drain oil. (Don't ask me Grandma said do it).
 
This truly a southern tradition and a pretty good one too. Of course Southern people
will fry anything they can catch and sometimes things other people catch. (just kiddin folks)
 
 
 
GRANDMA'S FRIED GOPHER WITH GRAVY.
 
Gophers, Gopherus polyphumus, are land tortoises which used to be fairly common throughout North Florida.  They were eaten when  there wasn't much other meat available.  Gophers reside underground in "gopher holes," usually along with other critters such as skunks and rattlesnakes. There are a couple of  ways to catch gophers. You could sit all day by the hole and wait for it to come out or you could use a grapevine hook to snag the shell and pull it out of the gopher hole.  But  maybe by chance you are driving along and see one plodding across a field and you chase him down.
Today gophers are endangered, so I suggest you use turtle meat for this dish instead of the
poor ol' gopher.
 
Serves as many as you have gophers for.
 
Meat from one gopher or several gophers.
Salt and pepper to taste.
(some like it with garlic on it too)
Milk and egg mixture for coating meat.
Flour to coat gopher meat.
Lard or bacon drippings (enough to fry meat in).
1 sweet onion (St Augustine Sweets are very sweet onions)
 
Cut up gopher meat. Salt, pepper and garlic to taste.  Mix one egg and 1/2 cup of milk (more if alot of meat).  Dip meat into mixture and drop in flour. Heat oil for frying and when hot drop meat into oil. Fry about 10 min on each side or until golden brown. Remove meat from pan and set aside. Pour grease into container to cool. Leave drippings in frying pan.  Brown flour into frying pan(enough to make a nice size gravy depending on how many people). Add enough water to make gravy med thickness. Cut up onion into gravy and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for however long it takes to make onion soft. You can then either add gopher back into gravy and smother or leave out and eat fried(or you can add some and leave some).
 
When done you gather up all the folks and tell them the vittles are ready and they can clean
up to eat.
 
Best served with Collard greens, cracklin cornbread and of courst Sweet Potatoe Pie. Don't
forget the sweet tea.
 Enjoy.
 
 
PEA PICKIN CAKE
 
1 box butter cake mix
1 small can mandrin oranges
4 eggs
½ cup cooking oil
 
Mix all ot these to cake mix. After mixing all together, bake in oven as shown on back of cake mix box.  Let cool, then add icing.
 
ICING
 
1 can crushed pineapple, drained
1 box instant vanilla pudding mix (small)
1 large container Cool Whip
 
Mix all together and spread on cooled cake.
 
Feed this to everyone that has helped pick the peas out of Herbie's garden.
 
 
MAMA'S SQUASH,POTATOES AND HAMBURGER DISH
 
4 medium Zucchini squash cut up.
4 medium yellow squash cut up.
4 medium red new potatoes cut up.
1 Vidalia onion cut up.
salt and pepper to taste.
1 lb hamburger(ground round or sirlion is best).
1 tbsp olive oil.
 
Brown ground meat, drain off grease.
Add onion, potatoes and squash to mixture with olive oil.
Cook until squash, onions and potatoes are done.
(This is best cooked in a iron frying pan over medium heat.)
Takes about 20 to 30 min.
 
Serves my daddy, my momma, me and whoever else is there at eatin time.
Momma hopes you enjoy cause we all like it
 
She serves it with garlic rounds or crackers and fresh cucumbers and tomatoes.
 
Ruth Norman/Wife, Mom, Grandmom, Residental cook and the big boss of the Norman
House. (Herbert (my dad) controls the garden and yard.
 
 
STRAWBERRY CAKE
 
1 package white cake mix
1 tbsp flour
1 package strawberry jello (small)
3/4 cup Crisco oil
½ cup water
4 eggs
½ cup strawberries, frozen (thawed)
 
ICING
1 box confectioners sugar
1 stick melted margarine
½ cup strawberries (room temperature)
 
Mix all ingredients, bake in 3 layer or sheet cake form at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.
Cool, then ice cake.
 
This is a favorite around this area since we have some of the "Sweetest Strawberries this side of Heaven". Bradford County is one of the leading Strawberry producers in the south.
 
 
SWEET TATER PIE
 
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 2/3 cups evaporated milk
1½ cups boiled, peeled sweet potatoes beaten with mixer.
 
Blend sugar, spices and salt together. Beat eggs with milk and combine with sugar, spices, and sweet potatoes until smooth. Heat in suace pan until almost boiling and pour into unbaked crust. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 min, reduce heat to 350 and continue to bake until knife comes out clean.
 
Then you hide it afore the neighbors smell it and come visiting you. This is one you might
need to have a safety vault to keep people away from until after dinner.
 
   

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