Reformatted Recipes (a la poetry)

1. Reformatted Recipes(a la poetry) From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Cross Creek Cookery and harrellland 8th grade, 2014

2. Jamm Hostetler Minorcan Gopher* Stew First, catch one of the gophers that tear up lawns everywhere. Remove the shell and “diggers”. and bring it home to prepare Cut your gopher meat into multiple two-inch pieces. Simmer until the smell’s a treat, and the toughness ceases. To do so, you’ll be sure to add two cups of water, some salt, and pepper. Just a tad, for every cup of gopher. In a separate pot heat olive oil, and in it brown a chopped onion. Be careful not to let it boil; one would not want an eruption. Pour in one can of tomatoes and finely cut green pepper. If the sauce cooks down too much, more tomatoes should make it better. Once the gopher is thoroughly tender, Thicken with cooked egg yolks mashed in a blender; Pour the completed sauce right on it. then stir it together and you’ve cooked up a hit *All references to “gophers” should be taken as references to gopher tortoises (MKR called them gophers). There’s a big difference!

3. Recipe for Oven Cornbread To prepare the meal we shall devour Mix cornmeal, salt, baking powder, and flour Then stir with milk, only ¾ cups Then beat your eggs briskly with touch Prepare with care, because this is your lunch. Bake in an oven moderate to hot Stop when it puffs and the skin is soft Let it cool a bit by opening the door Enough for a family made of four Sit down and get ready to eat You will love this Cross Creek treat. Frederick Fang

4. MKR Parker House Rolls as Cinnamom Rolls Coleman Tradowski To make this awesome treat You won't need any meat, Just simply add the salt, sugar, and butter This will surely impress your mother, To this scalded milk Let cool This will make people drool, Add the dissolved yeast This meal could ease a beast, Add one half the flour Stir for about an hour, In a mixing bowl These are going to be amazing rolls, Put in the egg, well beaten Don't worry, we're about to be eat'n, Roll out a section of the dough This food will make people go "WOAH!" Now add the cinnamon and the glaze All of your guests will be amazed, Their taste buds will be in heaven for days You will certainly achieve your goal Of making these delicious Parker House Rolls

5. Andrea Wright How to Make Mother’s Sunday Night Salad Dice your apples of the finest flavor Along with some pineapples, you’ll need them later Add the meat of four oranges cut into pieces And some bananas served as slices Don’t forget to drop in red grapes and some celery too Stir it together, you’re almost through Blend with Mother’s Fruit Salad Dressing, the best of the best Sprinkle pecans on the top to make it a success.

6. Flank Steak Cooked bliss One and a half pounds of blood rich protein Slit on diamond markings Slap onto a flaming iron skillet Inhale as the aroma surrounds you The meat starts to brown and sizzle Boiling water cascades onto the steak A cloud of steam envelops you Popping of peppercorns Sizzling in another shower of water Add a pinch of salt Toss on carrots and onions Yet another water pouring Plopping on the plate Smothered in gravy A dash of this Add mashed potatoes Cooked bliss Lev Ettinger

7. Candied Sweet Potatoes (a sad, sweet story) Deep in the bottom of a pot A lonely sweet potato drowns in water that is boiling hot Out it comes to be cooled and peeled Sliced up with a blade and thrown into a cold buttered pan Piece by piece, the tater is dying slow Threatened to be buried in brown sugar, syrup, and water, the tater inhales Under goes the lonely sweet potato Butter is tossed into the sweet mess only to give Mr. Potato a false sense of surviving The oven opens and closes The darkness engulfs the pan The heat rises as the eyes on the sweet potato close for what might be the last time He feels his many severed parts absorbing the sweet liquid surrounding him As he notices the dark tan of his skin, he loses consciousness and is laid to rest ... Beside a slice of ham. Cjavia Jones

8. Sweet Potato Pone A Recipe for Jody reformatted by Alyssa Flincham Sweet potato pone was Jody’s (and if I guessed, maybe Flag’s) dream Peel and grate the raw potatoes and stir till like cream Mix molasses, eggs and milk together This dish and Cross Creek are birds of a feather It’s peculiar to the Deep South But that won’t stop anyone from shoving it into their mouth It’s often a part of a Cracker’s dinner And no, this dish will not make you thinner Butter, ginger, and brown sugar add a taste from above When Jody first tried it, he was in love This sweet, sweet smell will make your mouth water Give credit to an amazing author.

9. Hush-Puppies Reformatted to poetry by Peyton Acosta When you are ready to begin you must start to mix in first some cornmeal, then add salt Some sportsmen like to put in malt. I don’t add malt; it makes it sour Make sure you don’t forget the baking powder Then chop up the onion finely Next break the egg and beat unkindly. Now stir in the milk or water It’s almost time for things to get hotter. Form them in patties, round or finger shaped Now they are ready to be baked. Drop them in the fryer For a treat you will desire Fry them up until golden brown And they’re ready to be gobbled down and again by Rachel Exebirt (we like hush puppies) Fillet your onions; try not to cry Pry your egg out of the shell; it’s not shy (now beat it dry) Try to combine each component Then into small patties form it Drop them in a hot pan (turn on the fan) with the oil from a fried fish you have on hand Let one side crinkle and get crisp Then flip them when they’re ready—you can’t miss.

10. How to Make Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie… The Right Way There are sweet, salty and bland ingredients The sugar of course is one of the sweetest Along with the sugar comes some of the syrup These are boiled together for three minutes tops Eggs are next, four to be exact Beat and stir, but give some slack Slowly pour them into the sweet Add the butter, vanilla, and pecan meats It’s OK if they’re broken while you’re bakin’ this treat Turn it all into a raw pie shell And power up the oven and begin to tell That in forty-five minutes you’ll enjoy a sweet smell Rebecca Schlafke

11. How to Make Corn Soufflé Add one cup of corn Off the cob or from a can Add salt for savory And sugar for sweet Mix cornstarch and milk To make it nice and creamy Three eggs should surely make it better Melted butter should do the trick To bake and make one delicious treat Francisco Aguirre

12. Recipe for Making Ed Hopkins’ Fish Chowder Reformatted to poetry by Eric Smith Cut the bacon, fillet the fish, Make sure you have a spare soup dish Place a layer in an oven of the Dutch, Seasoning optional, just a touch! Now for a layer, Of onions and potatoes, Thin as paper. Don’t forget the butter, salt, pepper, and crackers! Or you’ll just be another slacker.  Now, repeat Repeat, Repeat, All nice and neat! Don’t forget water, or it’s all obsolete Cook, and now, you can finally Eat! Ed Hopkins’ Fish Chowder Sydney did it too…go figure…2 Fish Chowders; not 2 cakes! Begin by slicing the bacon about one half inch, Layer the pieces evenly pinch by pinch. Fillet an almost fried fish Cut meat in halves for the perfect dish. Apply fish on top of bacon, layer with care. Lather on onion, potatoes, crackers, butter (and maybe even a little pear). Repeat layers until ingredients are gone, This step may take you until dawn. Soak in water then you can cook This may be the best recipe in the book. Now you have a meal for six And it took just forty-five minutes to fix.

13. Devil’s Food Cake Cream butter and add in the sugar This may or may not look like a booger Add egg yolks that are well beaten Watch out though this isn’t ready to be eaten Now add baking powder, soda, flour, and milk Stir until it moves like silk Pour in chocolate and fold in some egg whites By now the finished product is in our sights Bake in three different greased pans Make sure to use ones larger than cans Finally coat with seven minute frosting You’re done! Though it may have been exhausting Reece Vodre

14. Grits Grits are quite simple As you may see Get one cup of grits Wash them and dry Next add four cups of water Steamy and hot All nice and ready To put in a pot Add one pinch of salt Enough to give flavor Eat it all up But save some for later Max Walkup

15. Kevin Young The Hungry Earpoems about food “One of the things I think [poets] enjoy about a great meal is that it goes away... that you make a terrific meal for friends and family, and if you succeed, it's gone. And there's this pleasure in that because it's exactly the opposite of writing a poem or writing anything. You are struggling and struggling, and finishing means it's permanent, or at least feels that way. “ “I’m not”