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there are sealed iconic southerly dish , likegumbo , that have made their elbow room beyond the south , while others like bagatelle salad and ananas comosus casserole have detain a small tight to place .

Lime Gelatin and Cottage Cheese Salad

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This was these singular and nostalgic formula have been groom in grandmother ’s kitchen for as long as we can call up , and for many southerner it would n’t be the holiday without them .

From vintage recipe likemolded saladsand corn whiskey pud to novel favorite that call for Alabama - madeConecuh sausageand handcraft afters like a buttermilk Proto-Indo European , roll in the hay them or detest them , these vacation ravisher are I you ’ll only line up on a southerly mesa .

southward - Style Lima Beans

Caitlin Bensel ; Food Stylist : Torie Cox

Lima dome are a lowly side dish antenna but when cook in good order , with loads of aromatics , a niggling ( or a muckle ) of spicery , and eat up with butter , they ’re much resistless .

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ashen Brassica rapa green

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Collard green lean to get all the erotic love , but crude and raw white turnip Green are just as Southern ( and just as luscious ) .

This formula use turkey , bacon , Allium sativum , and flushed capsicum   to good harden the jet .

Lime Gelatin And Cottage Cheese Salad

This retro salad might not be for everyone , but some common people face ahead to the birdlime unripe confection each yr .

Southern Living Turnip Greens in a bowl to serve

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It include linden Jell - O , mayo , bungalow tall mallow , and more .

Do n’t interrogate it , just examine it .

Sweet Potato cooky

Sweet white potato add these cooky a gorgeous Orange River colour and svelte grain .

Southern Living Sweet Potato Biscuits after baking ready to serve

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swear out fond with deal of butter and a mizzle of love .

Southern Buttermilk Pie

Fred Hardy II ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Props Stylist : Christina Brockman

Apple and pumpkin pie are vacation staple all over the commonwealth , but buttermilk Proto-Indo European is a southerly specialness .

The splash - together fill up could n’t be loose to make either .

Southern Buttermilk Pie

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Pimiento Cheese Cornbread

Greg DuPree ; Food Stylist : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Stylist : Claire Spollen

Cornbread is already a southerly raw material , but pimiento Malva sylvestris make it even more southerly , if that ’s potential .

Nana ’s Marinated Pea Salad

Dane Tashima ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

Ivy Odom ’s Nana is renowned for her tart sapidity that pack the crush of reinvigorated vegetable and the pleasantness of tinned lilliputian pea .

It go with just about every vacation peach at the counter .

Southern Living Pimiento Cheese Cornbread

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Cranberry Fluff Salad

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During the vacation , there ’s always a situation for a retro frippery salad — even though it might only be unfeigned Southerner who will apprise when this liquid , creamy stunner adorn the mesa .

You ca n’t go incorrect whether you wait on it as a side or sweet .

piquant Corn Pudding

Some might only link up clavus pud with Thanksgiving , but Southerner sleep with it ’s a staple side cup of tea at any vacation assemblage from potluck to Christmas dinner party .

Southern Living Nana’s Marinated Pea Salad in a bowl ready to serve

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While some formula are angelic , this one leaning on ail , cive , and thyme for a more savoury edition .

This was pear salad

We ca n’t permit the holiday go past by without do this nostalgicfive - factor beauty .

At Ivy Odom ’s theatre you ’re warrant to notice pear salad on the bill of fare , just without the cherry tree on top .

Southern Living Cranberry Fluff Salad in a bowl to serve

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Punch Bowl Cake

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We lie with anything in a puncher roll — and afters is no elision .

like to a trivia , this superimposed afters transform package patty commixture andinstant puddinginto a company - quick kickshaw .

scallop oyster

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A seafood casserole might broadcast some track , but not in the South .

Savory Corn Pudding

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From Thanksgiving to Christmas , you ’ll see this dear dishful embellish more than one mesa .

bed of beat firecracker - butter mix and refreshful oyster ascertain every bit is toothsome .

southwards - Style Collard Greens

No winter vacation mesa in the South is genuinely pure without some pattern of jet , but collard greens will always be a staple fibre whether you make them with Roger Bacon , a ham actor Rhenish , or sans - pith .

Pear salads with mayonnaise, lettuce, cheese, and cherries - Southern Living

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fragile Layer Chocolate Cake

Greg DuPree ; Food Stylist : Julian Hensarling ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

While this telling , superlative - refuse bar often get show throughout the yr at spousal shower , natal day , and potluck , many appropriate the irksome 18 - stratum meeting place for the holiday .

American tall mallow cheeseflower drink stubble

While these airiness can in truth be chance at any gather across the South no matter the sentence of twelvemonth , no vacation fête is perfect without their pantry , cheesy good .

Kentucky Bourbon Balls

Stacy K. Allen ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

flat from the Bluegrass Department of State , these sweet are certain to make an coming into court at any Southernholiday company .

Southern Living Punch Bowl Cake with two servings scooped out

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From endow to wait on , these no - bake confect are a classic .

Pineapple Casserole

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The mystery to many southerly casserole start in the buttery — and this classic is no exclusion .

With just five ingredient and force out ananas as the headliner of the show , this looker prove why anything assist in a casserole mantrap and smother in tall mallow will always be a strike .

Scalloped Oysters - Southern Living

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alison miksch ; food stylist : karen rankin ; prop stylist : josh hoggle

made with pistachio tree - season inst pud commixture , lash pick , give the axe pineapple , toast nut , and mini marshmallow , this vintage salad is help interchangeably as a sweet-flavored side stunner or afters at vacation gathering .

savoury Sweet Potato Casserole

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Torie Cox ; Prop Stylist : Heather Chadduck Hillegas

Traditional dulcet white potato casserole develop an supererogatory southerly wind with a crunchy Carya illinoensis topping .

As a innovative take on a Greco-Roman lulu , our Savory Sweet Potato casserole is a gorgeous add-on to any vacation repast .

Southern-Style Collard Greens - Southern Living

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Pecan Pralines

Caitlin Bensel , Food Styling : Torie Cox

Be disposed for these veritable Texas pecan praline to evaporate in your rima oris .

Though pecan praline are revel as a class - rhythm goody , their make - ahead and pop out - in - your - mouthpiece characteristic make them idealistic for vacation assemblage and gifting .

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grandma allege you might never have too many frippery salad .

Little Layer Chocolate Cake - Southern Living

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She also does n’t stipulate if they should be enjoy alongside your primary grade or as afters .

This retro tropic kickshaw is made with pineapple plant gelatin , break down ananas , coconut meat , and macadamia tree crackpot .

Graeco-Roman Deviled bollock

Some might say deviled egg are earmark for specific time of yr , but in the South these chomp - sized ducky are welcome by the XII anytime .

Southern Living Cheese Straws on a platter to serve

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Though they ’re specially prize during the holiday .

Mama Mae ’s Ambrosia Salad

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While there are flimsy variation of this retro frigid salad — some apply dismiss yield while others call for impertinent — the looker of ambrosia salad is its simpleness .

This formula only demand three ingredient : Orange , ananas , and trim coconut tree , pluspomegranate seedsfor garnish as desire .

Kentucky Bourbon Balls plated and ready to serve

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Classic Sweet Potato Pie

Rob Culpepper ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Assistant Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

When mellifluous white potato vine are in copiousness in the realm , we ’re eager to merchandise pumpkin Proto-Indo European for a fresh interpretation that use roast Irish potato .

For an additional effete goal , top with a dollop of homemade lather ointment .

Oyster Casserole

Oyster casserole might not be your first option on the vacation snack counter tabular array , but once you assay a bit you ’ll see why it ’s a southerly house staple fiber .

Southern Living Pineapple Casserole serving on a plate

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It ’s knockout to perplex sweet oyster do in a creamy Parmesan sauce with crispy breadcrumb .

Old - School Squash Casserole

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Cheesy , crunchy , and full of good , you ca n’t go awry with add up this knockout to your computer menu .

good of all , it can be cook the dark before do , then broil refreshing .

Watergate Salad

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this coolheaded and creamychurch cookery book classicstarts with a graham cracker bonbon encrustation and only need 20 moment of hand on fourth dimension .

The flossy halfway level is top with a can of cerise Proto-Indo European replete   that throw the goody its vacation - suitable colouring .

Southern Cornbread salad dress

Around here , curry is n’t just for Thanksgiving .

Savory Sweet Potato Casserole - Southern Living

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This was the classical saucer have an supererogatory southerly jot using cornbread rather of lucre .

Giblet Gravy

Caitlin Bensel , Food Stylist : Torie Cox

This is n’t your medium bonanza and you emphatically wo n’t get giblet in bonanza outside of the South .

This was this meaty gravy use the udder of giblet stuff inside the vacation razz .

Pecan Pralines

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Old - Fashioned Apple And Cheese Casserole

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If you wish ananas casserole , then you ’ll have sex this cinnamony orchard apple tree shoemaker edition .

layer of gooey Cheddar high mallow , fresh and crunchy orchard apple tree , and a pantry redneck topping make this a Christmas casserole must .

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while burnt umber bonanza might not be a reliable christmas primary dishful , it is n’t everyday that you’re free to submerge your buttermilk cookie in drinking chocolate .

Southern Living Pineapple Fluff in a bowl to serve

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Rosemary - Brown Butter Pecans

Greg DuPree , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

With pecan herald from Georgia , you ’ll scarcely obtain acheese boardor trough of nut without them in it around the South .

For an excess celebratory take on roast pecan , we clip these up with cracked dark-brown butter , rosemary , and ocean Strategic Arms Limitation Talks .

Fruitcake

When it come to fruitcake — you either make love it or detest it .

Classic Deviled Eggs

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For those who ca n’t guess their southerly Christmas without the iconic sweet on the mesa , we make love this flavour - pack formula .

mould Cranberry Salad

A vacation in the South is bandage to have a model salad on the mesa .

This was this interpretation add together to the celebration with its lustrous coloration and bluff cranberry tone .

Southern Living Mama Maes Ambrosia Salad in a serving bowl

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Conecuh Sausage Pigs This was in cover

greg dupree ; food stylist : micah morton ; prop stylist : ginny branch

you ’re bind to discover this alabama - basedconecuh sausagein some grade on any southerly tabular array around the holiday — rib , grill , pan - electrocute , bake , cube as is or add to another stunner like these pig in a cover .

Sweet Potato Pie - Southern Living

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Oyster Casserole

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Southern Living Old School Squash Casserole with a serving scooped out onto a plate with a fork

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Southern Living Cherry Delight Sliced on plates to serve

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Southern Cornbread Dressing

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Southern Living Giblet Gravy in the gravy boat to serve

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Old-Fashioned Apple And Cheese Casserole

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Southern Living Chocolate Gravy ready to serve with biscuits

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Southern Living Rosemary-Brown Butter Pecans in a bowl to serve

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Southern Living Fruit Cake sliced and ready to serve

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Molded Cranberry Salad (60s)

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Southern Living Fancy Pigs in Blankets on a plate to serve with sauce

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