“Cheese and Jelly Stuff”

Preparation info
  • Makes 1 ring (serves

    10 to 12

    )
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Recipes, Remembrances, and a Little Riotous Behavior

By Mary Martha Greene

Published 2021

  • About

At a party long ago, my friend’s husband dubbed this recipe “Cheese and Jelly Stuff”—as in, “I hope Mary is serving that cheese and jelly stuff.” Its real name is the “Plains Cheese Ring,” and it was purportedly former First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s recipe when she lived in the White House. We’ve been to Plains, Georgia, many times to hear President Carter teach Sunday school, and although we have had many fun adventures, we have never seen i