Baking on Wednesday - potlikker and cornbread
The inspiration for this post popped up out of nowhere this week. It's the week sickness finally visited my household. My husband and younger son both got a stomach bug at the same time. Both missed work/school and were feeling poorly. Because I had recently posted my excursus on cornbread, the stars were aligned... I needed to make a pot of greens so that I could serve them "potlikker." What is potlikker, you ask? Well, if you aren't from the South, you might not know. And many Southerners might not know either. Potlikker is the colloquial term for "pot liquor." In its simplest form, it's the broth that comes from greens, be they collard, turnip or mustard, which have been simmered for hours with some pork. Just like cornbread before it, much has been written about potlikker. It was originally the province of the poor. If greens were being cooked for the house, the slaves knew they could take the potlikker, since it was useless to the wh...
