HOWDY ANNE. WILKIE HERE. MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS DRANK HIS COFFEE FROM A SAUCER AND SOPPED HIS BISQUITS IN GRAVY OR RIBBON CANE MOLASSES. I NEVER KNEW WHY. HABIT? CUSTOM? ANOTHER STRANGE THING - HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW ALWAYS REFERRED TO HER HUSBAND AS "MR. RITCHEY." . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <annewise@suddenlink.net> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:03 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Syrup Soppin' Suppers > Hi List, > > I've got a general kind of question for you. > When I was growing up, my church (in Louisiana) used to have what they > called "syrup soppin' suppers." It was mostly biscuits and pancakes and > syrup and fixins. > > My great-great grandfather, raised in Bradley County, was known for > "soppin" > biscuits. > My silly question is: How far back does this tradition go? Did Bradley > County residents have "syrup soppin' suppers? > > Anne Wise > annewise@suddenlink.net > Bradley County surnames: STUART , THOMAS , ATKINSON sidelines: BENNETT, > CARNELL > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello Wilkie, I too remember my father sipping his coffee from a sauer,I to have sopped biscuit in gravy and Molasses, many of time as a child, for Breakfast. We owned our own cows, so we would make butter from their milk, and mixed in the Syrup,or molasses, and eat them while they were still hot. A couple of years my father farmed and gre his own cane,it was called sargrum, ribincane was rather scarce around where I lived, Mr Emmit Blankinship grew Ribincane on his farm, when we lived there, my older brother help him to plaint it, they would plaint stalks, in the ground, Sargum would be plainted by seed. I always thought thatsyrup were very tasty, sometime I eat it now, keep a jar in mt store room. It good to seethat you are still around, Wilkie, we have remenance over a lots of our old home place, good luck to you. Norris Bailey.

GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU NORRIS. I'M STILL HANGING ON, BUT, BEING 83 AIN'T ALL FUN. I SPEND A LOT OF MY TIME IN A WHEEL CHAIR AND I SIT AND REMEMBER THOSE SWEET DAYS IN BRADLEY COUNTY. FUNNY THING, WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE WERE POOR CAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WAS POOR, ALSO. YOU TAKE CARE CAUSE IT'S HELL TO GET OLD AND YOU ARE NOT FAR BEHIND ME. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW THE BUCKET OF SURUP WOULD TURN TO CRYSTALS IN THE WINTER TIME AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO HEAT IT ON THE STOVE TO GET IT TO POUR ON THE BISQUITS? SINCERELY, WILKIE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norris J. Bailey" <bailey669@ca.rr.com> To: <arbradle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [ARBRADLE] Syrup Soppin' Suppers > Hello Wilkie, I too remember my father sipping his coffee from a sauer,I > to > have sopped biscuit in gravy and Molasses, many of time as a child, for > Breakfast. We owned our own cows, so we would make butter from their milk, > and mixed in the Syrup,or molasses, and eat them while they were still > hot. > A couple of years my father farmed and gre his own cane,it was called > sargrum, ribincane was rather scarce around where I lived, Mr Emmit > Blankinship grew Ribincane on his farm, when we lived there, my older > brother help him to plaint it, they would plaint stalks, in the ground, > Sargum would be plainted by seed. I always thought thatsyrup were very > tasty, sometime I eat it now, keep a jar in mt store room. > It good to seethat you are still around, Wilkie, we have remenance over a > lots of our old home place, good luck to you. > Norris Bailey. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >