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From: Bruce / Sarah Lybbert <>
Subject: Re: Handed down cooking thoughts :was Chess Pie
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:34:50 -0600


Susan Evans :

Could you please send me the corn bread recipe, I have been looking for one
for a long time. BTW are you from the sothern states. Thats the only place I
have seen it done that way.

Bruce Lybbert

At 08:06 97/10/06 -0500, Susan Evans wrote:
>Dale Warren wrote:
>>
>> Hello, Friends:
>>
>> I've really enjoyed the "conversations" on all the different subjects
>> on this list. One never knows what the next topic is going to be. At
>> the risk of getting a VERY long topic going, I promised a friend that
>> I'd see if someone out there has a recipe for something called "Chess
>> Pie." My friend couldn't remember exactly how to make it and has
>> wanted some for a long time. It was one of her favorites and she'd
>> like to continue the traditional dessert with her family.
>>
>> A list of all our favorite recipes would probably give Tracy's server
>> a severe case of gout so I'm not suggesting it as a topic. A reply
>> off the list will be appreciated.
>>
>> HOWEVER, if such a topic got going based on "handed-down" recipes I
>> think it would certainly enrich our appreciation of the lives our
>> ancestors lived. Perhaps a topic of unusual things they cooked that
>> we don't see anymore would be good.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dale Warren
>> <>
>>
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>I have three recipes that are particularly old that have been handed
>down to me, a cornbread recipe (uses no wheat flour), from my maternal
>grandmother, through her mother and maybe from her mother.
>
>A sugar cookie recipe, from my maternal grandmother from her husband's
>family (it was in my grandma's recipe book as Grandmother Hardin's Sugar
>Wafers...not sure if it refers to her mother-in-law, or to her husband's
>grandmother, which would make it very old, as these things go)
>
>A turkey dressing "recipe" passed down mother to daughter, who knows how
>long.
>
>Some of our old cake recipes may be fairly old, though.
>
>Most of the other "traditional" recipes I think we have in my family are
>20th century concoctions, although a number of them are probably from
>the 20s - 50s...
>
>It is interesting though, the shifting of cooking styles...I learned to
>cook with a lot of frying, seasoning a lot of food with bacon fat (which
>we used to save). In my family, salad was lettuce and tomato with french
>dressing. We ate a lot of black-eyed peas and some pintos. Fried round
>steak, fried chicken and fried hamburger patties, ham steak were the
>common everyday meats. Sometimes we would have stewed or baked chicken.
>Greenbeans, mashed, baked and fried potatos, green peas, spinach, corn,
>squash, and fried or stewed okra rounded out the veggies we normally
>ate. Fruit cobblers, pecan, chocolate, pumpkin, and rarely, lemon
>meriangue (sp) pies, and chocolate and lemon and yellow cakes, were our
>common desserts, with jello pretty common too. We ate a lot of beef,
>and as a small child, we used a lot of cane syrup (I grew up in the
>transition period for this, I think)...
>Nowadays, I fry almost nothing, although I saute a lot. I cook a much
>wider variety of veggies than was common in my family: brussell sprouts,
>cabbage (which for some reason my family only used for cole slaw),
>turnips, rutabagas, cauliflower, brocolli - these were all exotic foods
>in my family. We put greens in salad that my grandmother would have
>considered spring weeds. Bok choy, beansprouts and leaks were things my
>grandmother would have scratched her head over. I cook varieties of
>beans my parents never heard of when I was growing up. I haven't saved
>bacon fat for years and years...and don't even cook bacon very often. I
>eat mostly chicken...and it's been at least five years since I made
>fried chicken last. I feel guilty if I butter my bread.
>Times have certainly changed!
>
>Sue
>
>Sue
>
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