Huguenot Torte

I would love to be able to wax eloquently about how this dish was brought to the new world by Beaufort’s founder, Jean Ribault, a French Huguenot looking for religious freedom, but sadly, that is not the case. It was originally from the Ozarks of Arkansas, and a Charleston housewife adapted it for the tavern she worked in during the Depression era of the 1930s; it was called, appropriately enough, the Huguenot Tavern.

The Huguenot Torte became one of the specialties