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For these sisters, butter is always on the grocery list.
Are there recipes in the cookbook that youve held on to for years?
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Will you ever stop making those recipes?
Dolly:Well, we wont stop eating them.
Rachel:I think there are a few things like biscuits, gravy, things that Ill always cook.
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Dolly:And its good.
What recipes taste like childhood to you?
Rachel:I think the meatloaf is one.
And it is a wonderful version of banana pudding, and its quick and easy, and its great.
What cooking traditions did you incorporate into the cookbook?
Did you blend any of those cooking traditions together as you were creating the cookbook?
We dont limit ourselves on the butter and bacon grease.
Dolly:And salt and pepper!
Rachel:And salt and pepper.
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I think thats whats great about cooking.
Dolly:I think all creative cooks do that.
So I think thats whats great about cooking.
Thats what that word means.
For the recipes you grew up with, did you tweak them at all for the cookbook?
Rachel:I thought it was very important to value the recipes the way we grew up with them.
Well, then just dont use a lot of salt.
I know that I personally love butter, too much.
I always add more than probably I should, but it works for me and my kids.
Dolly:Yeah, we laughed a lot when we were actually putting some of the recipes together.
Should we put one stick of butter or two?
Rachel is a great cook.
I love to cook.
Rachels food is really pretty and really good, and mines really good, and its not always pretty.
We just love the food, and we love how we grew up.
We love to share this with people.
So I guess every cook is different.
So Rachel has time, and she takes it so serious.
For our Yorkshire Pudding recipe, she was going to get that right.
She thought about it before she even started it.
So thats how she cooks.
But we just love the food, and we love how we grew up.
We love to share this with people.
Do you ever tweak your own recipes over time?
Its just the way that I love to be creative, and cooking is a creative outlet for me.
Growing up, were your recipes written down?
That was my first recipe, and that was what we have in the book, that skillet cornbread.
All of those, and what is that?
Rachel:How much is a pinch?
[Laughs]
Dolly:Its just more about cooking the Southern foods, cooking by feel.
But youve got to have some sort of instructions to go by, and thats what the book is.
Do either of you have any secret ingredients?
Rachel:Well, I think we sold most of our secrets.
Those are the three things that I feel I have to have.
But seriously, those things are the good things.
Its the butter, its mostly the seasoning.
Everything is made a little better with spice and seasoning.
Dolly:Well, thats no secret to me!
[Laughs] But seriously, those things are the good things.
Its the butter, its mostly the seasoning.
Everything is made a little better with spice and seasoning.
Otherwise its just bland.
