Old-Time Hog Head Scrapple from Latta, South Carolina
An old handwritten recipe from Leler Watson of Latta, South Carolina preserves a true Southern hog-killing tradition: hog head scrapple.
An old handwritten recipe from Leler Watson of Latta, South Carolina preserves a true Southern hog-killing tradition: hog head scrapple.
I hand-copied this pecan pie recipe years ago on a trip to New Orleans after finding it at a place called The Depot at Madame Julia’s. I’m sharing it here exactly in that spirit: a little slice of travel, a little kitchen lore, and a recipe that still deserves a spot on the table.
Three short videos, three family gatherings, and a Southern holiday table rooted in Horry and Marion County, South Carolina—where our family lines have lived for 300+ years.
her restaurant was sacred, only known by Black Grand Strand locals and visitors Mrs. Frances died in 1983, but not before passing her restaurant onto her son, Prince,
These are my Grandmothers Elease Sarvis Lane Brasington’s recipes, Birth 26 APR 1921, in South Carolina, Death 9/26/2009 in Horry County, her father was John Sarvis Birth 15 Jun 1883 in South Carolina, United States Death 4 Apr 1953 in buried Cane Branch Baptist Church Cemetery in Allsbrook, South Carolina, I have a “Family photo from 1900 posted” his father was Doctor J. Sarvis Birth 1863 in South Carolina Death 30 Sep 1931 in Bayboro, Horry, South Carolina, United States
Waccamaw neck, that peninsula running over a score of miles along the Waccamaw River and between it and the ocean.