Our Family Cookbook / Notre Livre de Recettes

Here's a new cookbook hot off the press that brings together Acadian and Acadiana recipes. This family cookbook contains recipes from the Guedry-Labine Family and was published to coincide with the 2004 Congrès Mondial held in Nova Scotia.

If your surname is: Guidry, Guedry, Geddry, Gedry, Gidry, Guitry, Guildry, Gaidry, Jeddry, Jedry, LaBine, Labine or LaBean you're most likely a descendant, and, would surely want to add this one to your treasured library! 

The cookbook contains recipes from Nova Scotia, Louisiana and throughout the U.S.... all from Guedry-Labine descendants. You'll find old time favorites as well as new fangled dishes all compiled and published by Jack Guidry.

Visit our Guidry Merchandise Page to order.

2004 Guedry/Labine Cookbook Recipes Index

Breads/Bakery Pg. 4

  • Date Nut Bread 4
  • Pumpkin Brioches 4
  • Cheese Herb Bread 5
  • French Bread 6
  • Old Fashioned Crackling Cornbread 7
  • Frannie's Beer Bread 7
  • Maque Choux Cornbread 8
  • Banana Nut Bread 9
  • Persimmon Bread 9
  • Gâteau Roulé 10
  • Hush Puppies 10
  • Cornbread Dressing 11

Appetizers & Beverages Pg. 12

  • Charlene Guidry Lacombe's Iced Tea 12
  • Salmon Pâté 12
  • Seafood Dip 13
  • Nutty Cracker Bars 14
  • Hog Head Cheese 14
  • Christmas Punch 14
  • Lemonade 15

Vegetables Pg. 16

  • Ray's Smothered Potatoes 16
  • Grated Sweet Potato Casserole 16
  • Cabbage Patch Stew 16
  • Stuffed Mirleton 18
  • Eggplant Fritters 19
  • Cabbage Casserole 20
  • Eggplant Casserole 20
  • Stuffed Bell Peppers 21
  • Sweet Potato-Pecan Casserole 21
  • Suzie Q's Broccoli Casserole 22
  • Corn 22
  • Les Légumes 23
  • Aubergine de La Louisiane avec ecrevisse 24
  • Peas 24
  • Cuban Black Beans 25
  • Eggplant Casserole 25
  • Julie's Broccoli Casserole 25
  • Candied Yams 26
  • Creole Stewed Corn 27
  • Baby Lima Beans and Tomato 28
  • Copper Pennies 28
  • Smothered Okra 28
  • Smothered Cushaw 29
  • Caramel Yams on Meringue Clouds 30
  • Maque Choux 31
  • Smothered Okra with Shrimp 31
  • Hodgepodge 32
  • Myra's Scalloped Potatoes 33

Soups / Salads Pg. 34

  • Cream of Tomato Soup 34
  • Cheese Tomato Soup 35
  • Oyster Soup 36
  • Taco Soup 37
  • Cheese Chowder 37
  • Vegetable Soup 38
  • Navy Bean Soup 38
  • Corn Soup 39
  • 5 Cup Salad 39
  • Jean Guidry's Fruit Salad Dressing 40
  • Broccoli Salad 40
  • Calico Bean Salad 41
  • Seafood Delight 41
  • Taco Beef Soup 42
  • Soup of Old, Story of 42, 43

Meats Pg. 44

  • Sausage Jambalaya 44
  • Meat Pie a l'Acadienne 44
  • Ray's Cajun Hot Brisket 45
  • Pork Tenderloin 46
  • Chili with Beans 46
  • Brisket 47
  • Jean Guidry's Shepherd's Pie 47
  • Crazy Mixed up Dressing 48
  • Meat handling in the early Louisiana days (in French) 48, 49
  • Beef or Pork Pot Roast 50
  • Pork Chop-Squash Casserole 51
  • Dirty Rice 51

Seafood Pg. 52

  • Deep Delta Shrimp 52
  • Stuffed Crabs 53
  • P.K. Guidry's Oyster Jambalaya 54
  • Oyster Dressing 55, 56
  • Fish Cakes 56
  • Shrimp & Bread Casserole Strata 57
  • Pan Fried Haddock 58
  • Crawfish Etouffee 59
  • Ruby's Christmas Oyster Gumbo 60
  • Easy & Delicious Seafood Casserole 61
  • Crawfish a la Rice Cooker 61
  • Crab and Corn Bisque 62
  • Le Court-bouillon (In French) 63
  • Le Gombo de chevrettes (In French) 64, 65
  • MAMA's catfish court du bouillon 66
  • Stuffed Catfish Fillets 67
  • Boiled Crawfish or Crabs 68, 69
  • Hot Crab Sandwiches 69
  • House Bankin 70

Poultry Pg. 71

  • Chicken and Sausage Gumbo 71, 72
  • Poets' Chicken Salad 72
  • Chicken Fricot 73
  • Rappie pie 74
  • Fricassee de Volaille (Chicken Stew) 75
  • Rapure 75
  • Rappie pie 76
  • Gombo de volaille sans roux 77
  • Gombo de volaille avec roux 78
  • Deux types de gombo de volaille 79
  • Mama's Fricassee du Poulet or Lapin 80
  • North African Couscous 81
  • Chicken/Broccoli Casserole 82

Game Pg. 83

  • Ray's Rabbit 83
  • Deer Roast 84
  • Venison Tenderloin 85

Desserts Pg. 86

  • Cyrille Trasimond's Jelly Roll 86
  • Zucchini Bread 86
  • Crème au Beurre Cake 87
  • Gateau Sirop 88
  • Summerall's Baked Cushaw 88
  • Pie Crust 89
  • Simple Bread Pudding 89
  • Mini Haha's 90
  • Noodle Pudding 91
  • Persimmon Cake 91
  • Blueberry Cake 92
  • Apple Squares 92
  • Julie's Fig Cake 93
  • Jell-O Ambrosia 94
  • Microwave Pecan Pralines 95
  • Benne Pralines 95
  • Bread pudding 96
  • T-Mamou Syrup Cookies 96
  • Ruth Guidry's Butter Cream Frosting 97
  • Creamy Pralines 97
  • Old Fashioned Molassis Candy 98
  • Old Fashion Tarts 98
  • Mashpin 99
  • Fudge Pie 99
  • Dump Cake 100
  • Orange Slice Cake 100
  • Fig Cake 101
  • Sad Cake 101
  • Applesauce Cake & A Family Tradition 102, 103
  • Pumpkin Mousse 104
  • Aunt Fannie's Oat Meal Cake 104
  • Les Tartes Cadiennes (Pies of Acadians) 105, 106, 107
  • Pralines 107
  • Lemon Supreme Cake 108
  • The Best Brownies 108
  • Pumpkin Pie 109
  • Forgotten Cookies 109
  • Pralines 110
  • Banana Cobbler 110
  • Homemade Creamy Banana and Pecan Ice Cream 111
  • Angel Delight 111
  • Peanut Butter Fudge 112
  • Molasses cookies 113
  • White Fruitcake 114

Breakfast Pg. 115

  • Nancy Guidry's Homemade Biscuits 115
  • Pain Perdue (Lost Bread) 116
  • Crawfish Omelet 117
  • Breakfast/Brunch Casserole 118
  • Ruth Guidry's Couche Couche 118

Lenten Meals Pg. 119

  • Rice & Eggs 119
  • Rice & Eggs 120
  • Rice & Eggs 120

Other Guedry Things Pg. 121

  • Granny's Lye Soap 121
  • Les Fruits - An explanation of the fruits of Louisiana (In French) 121, 122