RARE Dudes Mountain Vittles Appalachian Great Smokies Recipes Smoky Mtns Country Food Cherokee NC Cookbook Start Price USD 95.00 Current Price USD 95.00 Time Left 14 days 12 hours 4 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 24, 2008 End Time Thursday, January 22, 2009 Location Canton, NC See more about 'RARE Dudes Mountain Vittles Appalachian Great Smokies ' Description Cook book entitled Dude's Mountain Vittles with the subtitle of Country Food Mountain Style by Scottie Andrews, printed in 1997 by a local printer. Spiral bound soft cover with a generous 130 pages. Book looks new and unused with only a minor scuff in the top right corner on the front where there might have been a sticker at one time. 'Dude' is referring to Charles Dude Cagle and this is a compilation of his favorite recipes. Dude was (and perhaps still is, I don't know) a local merchant for 20 years as of the writing of this cookbook, owning a produce stand (which he refers to as the shed) where he sold boiled peanuts, among other things, in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. The book begins with a 6 1/2 page introduction written by Dude Cagle in which he gives some family and mountain history largely pertaining to food, but including other mountain memories and history. His use of the mountain slang is genuine and accurate ('perdy' for pretty and 'adder' for after, for example). In addition to the beginning introduction, there are introductions to each section as well as mountain history and info on the foods interspersed generously throughout the book along with the recipes. I enjoyed the info on the mountain history of the foods and their preparation even more than the recipes. There is a 3 page introduction to the Spring recipes section which includes: red eye and sawmill gravy, homemade chocolate syrup, cornbread, spoon bread, ramp recipes (these stink to high heaven), cressys (so good!), wild branch lettuce, poke salat (not a typo), green spring onions, sassafras tea (which my young son used to make from bark off our trees), strawberry recipes, jams, jellies, lots of potato recipes, dumplins, and lots more. I can assure you that the folks in this area do eat everything I saw in this section as well as throughout the book. The summer section includes a 4 page intro and recipes such as mountain trout, pickles, rhubarb pie, rhubarb and strawberry jam, fried chicken and lots of mountain recipes for any summer garden vegetable or fruit you can think of that grows in this area such as tomatoes, peaches, okra, peas, green beans, cucumbers,beats, carrots, corn, hoecake,vegetable soup mix, chow chow, mint tea, etc. Fall has a 3 page intro and includes hominy, squirrel in a slow gravy, fall greens such as turnip, mustard and collars (collard greens), molasses, honey, leather breeches (britches), rutabagas, turnips, sweet potato recipes, candy roaster, pumpkin recipes, sauer kraut, many bean recipes, apple cider and other apple recipes, different types of squash, a 1 1/2 page section on hog killin with mountain pork recipes such as sausage, liver mush, cracklin's rendered, salt cured meats, cracklin bread, skins rendered and parched, blood pudding (which he recommends you don't eat and I second the opinion) , info on wild game and deer meat, opossum ( eeeewww), ground hog, grouse, pheasant, raccoon, bear, black walnuts, Cherokee bean bread, Cherokee chestnut bread, etc. Winter begins with a 4 page intro and includes soup beans, rabbit, guinea, eggs recipes, chicken soup, goose, a one page section on coffee, rice pudding, sausage gravy, fat back and milk gravy, cornbread and milk, appplesauce stack cake, molasses stack cake, cooked dried shucky beans cabbage recipes, molasses cake, his momma's layer cake, and batter muffins, apple pound cake, apple stack cake, molasses ginger bread, coconut cake, frosting, banana pudding, coconut pie, chocolate cake, icing, chocolate pie, molasses gingerbread men, old timey pound cake, old fashioned stack cake, oatmeal cookies, pecan pie, his momma's fudge, molasses pulled candy, dried apple cake, Grandma's fried apple pies, flour gravy, corn meal gravy, sausage gravy, corn meal mush, old fashioned sugar cookies, rocky road nut cake, Christmas tree popcorn garlands, lye soap, etc. The recipes I have listed are not all inclusive, but if anyone is seriously interested and would like a complete list, I will provide that. Just email me with request. In the back is a 2 page section on Dude's favorite menus and an index to all the recipes. Because this is written by a true native, the recipes are those known, used and loved by the mountain people. I am from this area and sometimes see "mountain" or "country cooking" cookbooks that are cheap imposters. This one isn't. It is the real deal. He mentions his inclusion of recipes that the Cherokee and mountain people share in this area (the reservation is very close by, just a few miles across Soco Mountain) which is also a nice bonus. Sometimes he will give the mountain recipe and the Cherokee recipe.Clean inside and out. No writing or tearing. Please email with any questions. FYI, I use sturdy packaging for books to prevent damage. Place a Bid!