If you grew up in a Southern household, chances are you know your way around the kitchen.

)but it was Mama’s kitchen, and we played by her rules.

Ahomemade cakeis always packed with a little extra love.

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And you better learn sooner rather than later how to make the perfectbiscuit.

To keep you on the right track in the kitchen, here are 30mistakesa Southern would never make.

It’scornbread batterpoured into a hot skillet, or freshly shredded cheese whisked into a steaming pot of grits.

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The true stamp of Southern cooking is that it’s homemade.

(Remember that time Sally tried to pass off herstore-bought pimiento cheeseas from-scratch?

Yeah right, sister, we’d recognize Palmetto’s anywhere.)

We’ve rounded up some of the mostcommon cooking mistakesyou’d never catch a Southerner making.