Muddle

Preparation info
  • Yields

    12

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Bill Neal's Southern Cooking

By Bill Neal

Published 1985

  • About

A muddle is a very thick fish stew celebrated in eastern Virginia and North Carolina, particularly on the long isolated barrier islands known as the Outer Banks. The customs and foods of the earliest English colonists have been maintained on these Atlantic outposts; linguists study the dialect for its Elizabethan overtones, and anthropologists record the raucous Twelfth Night celebrations. Muddle is the traditional feast of the region whose poor soil yields a meager harvest. The simple vege

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