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Then save the pot liquor and give it to the children; you take some too-it's good for your milk.

Quilly loves "swamp seeds" (rice) and "pot liquor" (the savory liquid left over after stewing collard greens and salt pork).

That's why many soul food chefs reserve this liquid for later use as vegetable stock, or use it as a vitamin-packed beverage known as "pot liquor."

Filet mignon, also sliced thin, is fanned around a heap of bitter broccoli rape, the cooking juices of both mingling together to form a perfect Italian pot liquor.

At one point, the senator, who hailed, of course, from Louisiana, dictated the recipe for pot liquor into the Congressional Record: "First let me tell the senators what pot liquor is.

Turnip greens may be cooked with a ham hock or piece of fat pork meat, the juice produced in the stewing process prized as "pot liquor".

Cornbread is used to soak up the "pot liquor", a nutrient-rich collard broth.

"He used to read recipes for gumbo and for pot liquor and greens, the Bible and Shakespeare," Mr. Ritchie said.

Some notable "home cooking" meals include: fried chicken, corn on the cob, greens with pot liquor, vegetable stew, chicken and dumplings, and chicken fried steak.

Glazed ham, sweet potatoes, fresh biscuits, green beans swimming in pot liquor, and maybe some pecan pie.