Southern Recipe Restoration Project

For this installment of our ongoing series, a Hurricane Katrina survivor who resides in metro Atlanta shares her late mother’s recipes for old-fashioned rice pudding -- one of her many specialties in a family that included 14 children.
The contributor: Daisy Angelety of Lawrenceville. A native of Centreville, Miss., Angelety is a retired schoolteacher and former restaurant owner who relocated to metro Atlanta from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The story: “When she was living, my mom would always tell my younger siblings, 'Daisy can take a chicken foot and make a whole meal off of it.’ I very seldom make jelly cake, but even today I cook corn bread almost every day.
“Most of my cooking was performed in my mom’s kitchen. I’m my mother’s oldest daughter, so I had a lot of [cooking] experience with her. "

“This pudding has a dense but creamy texture,” says recipe tester Deborah Geering. “It’s not too sweet and is very delicately flavored with nutmeg. We happened to discover that it is extra good served cold, topped with sliced strawberries and a splash more cream.”