Mama Lou's

Kitchen

still Lou Mae's recipes

One cast-iron skillet and a peach pie recipe in '78. Her grandkids run the place now. The pie hasn't changed.

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Open today · 7:00 am til the cobbler's gone · (478) 555-0147 · Closed Sundays. We're at church.

Today's Plates

Cooked this morning.
Served 'til it's gone.

written on the chalkboard about 6 this morning

Slow-braised chuck, carrots from the Barnes place out on Irwinton Road, red-skin potatoes, drowned in pan gravy.

comes with cornbread and sweet tea, always has

Brined 24 hours in buttermilk and Lou Mae's pepper blend, dredged three times, fried in the same cast iron she bought in 1978. Two pieces, two sides.

Lou Mae's recipe, written down 1982

Pearson peaches in summer, Bell's apples in fall. Butter-crust lattice, vanilla bean ice cream melting on top. Tastes like Lou Mae's kitchen smelled.

40 a day. when they're gone, they're gone

Years on Hancock Street

Three generations, one skillet, and a dining room where the regulars have their own table and the new folks get treated like regulars.

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