Key Ingredients: America by Food is a Smithsonian exhibition exploring the connections between Americans and the foods they produce, prepare, and present at the table. The Georgia tour of Key Ingredients is a project of the Georgia Humanities Council. The tour stops at 12 locations. The final stop on the tour is happening right now through February 13, 2010 in Buchanan !

 

 

Featured Recipe

Syrup Cake (contributed by Mary Tolleson—Tallapoosa-- recipe Syrup from R&A Orchardoriginally from Ellen Walters):


2/3 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar
1 cup sorghum syrup

2 eggs
Pinch of soda (1/4 tsp.)

Pinch of cinnamon
1/2 cup sweet milk

2 cups self-rising flour

Mix. Put in 10-inch iron skillet.  Bake at 325-degrees until brown, turn down to 300-degrees to finish cooking in center.


 

 

Every six-eight weeks we will feature a recipe, a food memory or a story from a different area of Georgia. Share your recipe!

Spotlight on Buchanan

 

Fresh Air Bar-B-Que

 

Key Ingredients makes its final stop-- in Buchanan! The Buchanan exhibition features local displays, a companion exhibit on biscuits and baking as well as etiquette classes and a BBQ cook-off! Click here for more about Buchanan.