My dad had a twin and they said the same thing. Grandpa told them to get a switch off the tree, they were going to be spanked for something. They determined that they wouldn't cry. Uncle Jonathan got spanked first, and he never uttered a cry at all. Then it was my Dad's turn. Dad said at that first switch, he let out a yelp, he said that hurt and he couldn't help but cry. And to think Uncle Jonathan had endured the whole spanking for nothing. <g> Emma > From: AZJen@npgcable.com > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:54:00 -0700 > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] razor strap/fly swatter > > Then one day my husband & his brother were fooling around & it was a > standing joke that they would decide before their Father came into their > room whether they would cry or not after their Father spanked them. One > day, Paul Sr. came into the room b/c they were goofing around too much. He > had grabbed one of the girl's wirehair brushes & had started to spank Jim > with it. Previously, Paul Jr.(my husband) & Jim had decided they wouldn't > cry. Well, that brush went smack into Jim's buttock & he started crying > like all get out. My husband, Paul Jr., looked down & all he could see was > blood on Jim's buttock. I think that his Father must have spotted it at the > same time b/c he stopped immediately & started apologizing to Jim. I don't > think the two of them fooled around much after that. There was only 1-2 yrs > difference in age between the two of them & they shared a room together. At > night, after they were suppose to be in bed & asleep, Paul & Jim would start > playing around. I guess their Father wasn't too happy with them when they > did this. That is how it came about that they got their weekly spankings. > > ~Jen in Payson, AZ

I try to keep the table clear but it doesn't seem to ever get that way. To me, it's more "homey" to have a table with goodies and stuff on it....let's me know that someone actually lives here as opposed to just passin' through. MaKettle's table was always loaded so we ate at a make-shift counter that at one time had been a wall. There was always a fly swatter handy too at Gramma Ruth's. No one ever thought any thing about swattin' a fly and just flickin' it "where ever" - on the floor or out the door. sometimes one of the dogs would get it before Gramma did. And fly swatters were always useful for whappin' at kids' legs when they were being onery.....(uh,,,, don't try that now cuz it would be jail time fer shure!) paula in sw fla usa.....and that dang fly swatter could sting! xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55:21 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put away in its place. My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be there Johnny-on-the-spot. Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! > > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber > xoxoxo > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Meant to add this message as a "P. S." to my other message. Has anyone gone out to get their flu shot yet? Or do you just plan on ignoring them? I know that people have different opinions on them...I'm just curious b/c we haven't decided what to do yet. We were going to go today..but my knee is really hurting me. Don't know if I mentioned it or not...but my rt knee had been hurting me a great deal lately. I ended up going to our orthopedic surgeon up here. I couldn't get in to see him, but I could get in to see his PA, James. I figured that James would be okay b/c the surgeon who I have seen before, for surgery, had told me when I broke my ankles that as far as he was concerned, whatever James would do, would be what he would do. Well, I told this man how much pain I was in & he really didn't seem to think much of it. He took an X-Ray of my knee & leg. Said there was a spur in the bones that attached to my knee. Then he said that my knee looked pretty messed up. He gave me a cortisone shot. He didn't even ask me if I wanted to shot...just took out the needle & jabbed it into my knee. When we left his office, he said to wait around 2 days & then the pain would subside. Well, after more than a week I was begging him for pain medication & he refused to give it to me...telling me that I hadn't waited long enough for the cortisone to help me. I got rather upset b/c the knee was hurting more each day. Finally he wrote up an order for me to have a MRI at our local hospital. The results came back that I had a fractured knee cap. Paul had gotten very upset with his office b/c they wouldn't do anything for me. I was awake for nearly a week due to the pain. After they got the results back in...the gal who is in charge of the office called & asked if I wanted to change my doctor to the surgeon rather than the PA. Paul talked to her & they got things pretty much straightened out...& I will be seeing Dr. Caulkins when he returns from his vacation on 10/18. I'm sure that there will be something said about the treatment which I received. I have had many falls in the past few years & I wouldn't doubt for one minute that I haven't damaged my knee cap due to all the falls which I have experienced. What got me is that I was in so much pain & yet this fellow refused to prescribe any kind of pain medication for me. Now I really do have to get to work around here. Paul came in & went out. I heard him say good-bye & I haven't the slightest idea where he has gone to. Guess I better get ready to go & get a flu shot if that's what he wants to do.

Emma & Paula, Your tables sound like my sister-in-laws place. And as far as that goes, it sounds like Paul's home while growing up. There was always something to 'snack' on when you came into the kitchen. If it didn't need to be refrigerated & was any sort of left over, it was on the table. If you came through the kitchen & spotted something, then you just helped yourself. I don't ever remember a table being set with place mats, etc. I do remember things being covered up though. I always felt so at home at Paul's home & at his sister's home. Rose now, his sister, now lives in N.C. & she pretty much practices the same thing. We really do need to make a trip down to see them one of these days. Talking about getting punished with something. My Mother chased me all the way down our street & into a school yard when I was young. She had a spatula & that really stung when she spanked me with that. Most likely I had talked back to her & that didn't go well with her at all. I can remember only ONE time that my sister got punished. My Mother caught her doing something secretively. She had been taking horse back riding lessons & my Mother took out her riding crop & slapped her across the back of her legs. Now that had to hurt...one would have thought she was being killed by the way she screamed when my Mother punished her. She ALWAYS was right about things & for my Mother to do this to her, it was a real surprise to my sister as well as my Mother. I know my husband's family had a razor strap like you are talking about. They each had their time when their Father would punish them with that strap. I guess their Mother NEVER used it. Strangely, one day it just disappeared & was never seen since then. All the kids thought that their Mother took it & put it some place; however, no one ever knew for sure what happened to it. Then one day my husband & his brother were fooling around & it was a standing joke that they would decide before their Father came into their room whether they would cry or not after their Father spanked them. One day, Paul Sr. came into the room b/c they were goofing around too much. He had grabbed one of the girl's wirehair brushes & had started to spank Jim with it. Previously, Paul Jr.(my husband) & Jim had decided they wouldn't cry. Well, that brush went smack into Jim's buttock & he started crying like all get out. My husband, Paul Jr., looked down & all he could see was blood on Jim's buttock. I think that his Father must have spotted it at the same time b/c he stopped immediately & started apologizing to Jim. I don't think the two of them fooled around much after that. There was only 1-2 yrs difference in age between the two of them & they shared a room together. At night, after they were suppose to be in bed & asleep, Paul & Jim would start playing around. I guess their Father wasn't too happy with them when they did this. That is how it came about that they got their weekly spankings. Paul just came home from the bank. He was going to make a deposit & then pay some bills. Well, I guess they are celebrating Columbus Day today..even though it's Columbus Day is normally 10/12. As long as it gives the employees a longer weekend, I guess they tacked it onto Monday instead of Tuesday...Tuesday, however, is the correct day for Columbus Day. I know that for sure b/c it's my Nephew's birthday on Tuesday & it has always been Columbus Day. Got to get some other things done. Have a great Monday. I have never enjoyed Mondays that much. When I was working, it just seemed as though my weekends went too quickly & before you knew it, Monday would be there again. The thing that I miss the most about working is not getting that pay check every week or every two weeks. That was always nice to have that coming in. I always saved mine while I was working. We used Paul's pay check to pay for bills, etc. Wonder how we are going to get through tough times with the little money that we have coming in now. Yesterday they announced for certain that we would not get another Social Security raise in 2011 as well as 2010. ~Jen in Payson, AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "*paula*" <freckletoes@comcast.net> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] razor strap/fly swatter > OMG!! Grampa Tanner had one of those and all he had to do was > threaten....he could snap it so loud that was enough to scare a kid to > Gramma's lap!! > > paula in sw fla usa.....ouch eech oweeee > xoxoxo > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:28:21 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter > > > Never had a fly swatter used on me. I got the razor strop. Guess that > tells you how serious Mama thought my infraction was. <g> > Emma > >> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:24:06 +0000 >> From: freckletoes@comcast.net >> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter >> >> I try to keep the table clear but it doesn't seem to ever get that way. >> To me, it's more "homey" to have a table with goodies and stuff on >> it....let's me know that someone actually lives here as opposed to just >> passin' through. MaKettle's table was always loaded so we ate at a >> make-shift counter that at one time had been a wall. There was always a >> fly swatter handy too at Gramma Ruth's. No one ever thought any thing >> about swattin' a fly and just flickin' it "where ever" - on the floor or >> out the door. sometimes one of the dogs would get it before Gramma did. >> And fly swatters were always useful for whappin' at kids' legs when they >> were being onery.....(uh,,,, don't try that now cuz it would be jail time >> fer shure!) >> >> paula in sw fla usa.....and that dang fly swatter could sting! >> xoxoxo >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> >> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55:21 AM >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits >> >> >> My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, >> like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, >> no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put >> away in its place. >> My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for >> the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled >> high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. >> When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be >> there Johnny-on-the-spot. >> Emma >> >> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 >> > From: freckletoes@comcast.net >> > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits >> > >> > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those >> > days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma >> > always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and >> > sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get >> > at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a >> > goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run >> > back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of >> > some unknown virus or bacteria! >> > >> > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp >> > slurp slobber >> > xoxoxo >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I like to set the dining room table as if guests are expected. Sure is pretty and it keeps the table from becoming a "catch all". Kay In a message dated 10/11/10 09:55:48 Central Daylight Time, roses4831@msn.com writes: My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put away in its place. My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be there Johnny-on-the-spot. Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! > > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber > xoxoxo > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, an egg can be cooked without bacon grease but it isn't as good. Once in a while I cook bacon, then cook eggs in the grease and am amazed at how much better they taste. Kay In a message dated 10/11/10 06:18:24 Central Daylight Time, freckletoes@comcast.net writes: Gramma and mom always dipped the tops in bacon grease!! Glad you reminded me. I may be forced to buy some bacon just to try the biscuits. I would just like to make a few things and have them taste/look as I remember. When I was a kid, everyone (in the southern parts) had a coffee can of bacon drippin's by the stove. OMG!! After we moved north, one of the neighbor women saw our can of grease and was mortified.....thought she was gonna have a stroke right on the spot. She was sure we were all gonna be poisoned. I was grown and livin' in the "big city" before I found out an egg could be cooked without being smothered in hot bacon grease!! Who woulda thought..... paula in sw fla usa xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:48:39 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the tradition continues. <g> Emma > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:54:54 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , > lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep > heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown > the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of > cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat > the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and > milk...Yuck. Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

JeanneT...... what have you read about oil? golly gee willikers - we need to know this stuff. I don't like cooking with oil - I guess cuz I never learned how. I don't like olive oil at all - tastes funny to me. Lots of people dip their bread in olive oil/spices but GAK!! I'll take a piece of bread with butter..and not fake butter (which should not be called butter at all). I saw milk at the store that had fish oil in it...fish oil! Why would anyone thing of squeezin' the juice out of a fish and then puttin' it in good milk?? Oh PTAW!! never mind,,,, I don't want to know. paula in sw fla usa.... I'm makin' myself sick xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:54:54 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. When making cornbread or biscuits and trying to duplicate the recipes your Mama's or Grannies did the most important thing is you have to do is use the same brand /type of flour/cornmeal they used. Theres an amazing difference in brands. Mama used Gold Medal flour, I can't stand it and will use nothing but White Lily..which has been around more than 100 years......Another thing in this area...your older relative probably used 'straight ' or all purpose products rather than self rising...Self rising has flour and leavening mixed in...Straight cornmeal is just that...ground up corn. I THINK the Mexican corn meal would be the same...or maybe just plain flour or meal in your regular brand. I used to get cornmeal ground on a gasoline powered rig at the County Fair and it was very coarse grind....I see plain meal at the store..but prefer to use the self rising, and I still put flour in my corn bread...I measure out about 2 big handfuls of self rising yellow meal and add in a handful of self rising flour....and about a tablespoonful of sugar to help it brown and to help the texture...You can't taste it...I also add 2 eggs instead of 1 , melted butter, and cook it in butter....since reading how unhealthy vegetable shortening is...I fry it in a pone on top of the stove...very low heat and covered..about 10 minutes, then turn over if it's pretty well set in the middle and brown the bottom. To cook a small amount just fry pancake style in butter or something till brown then flip over. Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and milk...Yuck. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:08:13 +0000 (UTC) *paula* <freckletoes@comcast.net> writes: > oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe > for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was > so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded > milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it > was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I > can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's > cornybread covered with gravy!! > > paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook > xoxoxo > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cb286148dcba2131cm06duc ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:32:20 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits MY Mama used the back of a big spoon to slather bacon grease or lard on the panned biscuits after she made them up in a big oval shaped wooden bowl . I am just naturally lazy, and it seemed like just turning the biscuits over in the lard was easier than messing up a spoon...She had blackened steel biscuit pans...very dented and worse for wear, but they held many delicious biscuits, Tea cakes, baked sweet potatoes Daddy grew each year and even peanuts 'parched' in the oven of that old black iron wood burning stove. HAPPY memories ! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:48:39 -0700 Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always > dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the > pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done > it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw > her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but > said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the > tradition continues. <g> > Emma ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Gramma and mom always dipped the tops in bacon grease!! Glad you reminded me. I may be forced to buy some bacon just to try the biscuits. I would just like to make a few things and have them taste/look as I remember. When I was a kid, everyone (in the southern parts) had a coffee can of bacon drippin's by the stove. OMG!! After we moved north, one of the neighbor women saw our can of grease and was mortified.....thought she was gonna have a stroke right on the spot. She was sure we were all gonna be poisoned. I was grown and livin' in the "big city" before I found out an egg could be cooked without being smothered in hot bacon grease!! Who woulda thought..... paula in sw fla usa xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:48:39 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the tradition continues. <g> Emma > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:54:54 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , > lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep > heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown > the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of > cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat > the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and > milk...Yuck. Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hey you ole granny.... I knew you'd have a trick or two up one of your sleeves. I'm pretty sure Gramma used Gold Medal but won't swear to it. She kept her flour in a big "bin" and no doubt it was loaded with weevils (gak). I never saw her measure anything - like you said, a "handful" of this and then a "peench" of that. I did buy straight corn meal but couldn't find "white". Also am positive Gramma used bacon grease for the oil part. This scaled milk recipe was very easy.....corn meal, scalded milk added together, cool down, then the salt, baking powder, egg, oil went in at various times but not the salt and the baking powder at the same time. I just don't recall Gramma using hot milk though. Wonder would it work as well using cold or buttermilk?? I'll have to try that. (call me Betty Crocker - or is it Betty Crocked!!) paula in the cool morning of sw fla usa xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:54:54 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. When making cornbread or biscuits and trying to duplicate the recipes your Mama's or Grannies did the most important thing is you have to do is use the same brand /type of flour/cornmeal they used. Theres an amazing difference in brands. Mama used Gold Medal flour, I can't stand it and will use nothing but White Lily..which has been around more than 100 years......Another thing in this area...your older relative probably used 'straight ' or all purpose products rather than self rising...Self rising has flour and leavening mixed in...Straight cornmeal is just that...ground up corn. I THINK the Mexican corn meal would be the same...or maybe just plain flour or meal in your regular brand. I used to get cornmeal ground on a gasoline powered rig at the County Fair and it was very coarse grind....I see plain meal at the store..but prefer to use the self rising, and I still put flour in my corn bread...I measure out about 2 big handfuls of self rising yellow meal and add in a handful of self rising flour....and about a tablespoonful of sugar to help it brown and to help the texture...You can't taste it...I also add 2 eggs instead of 1 , melted butter, and cook it in butter....since reading how unhealthy vegetable shortening is...I fry it in a pone on top of the stove...very low heat and covered..about 10 minutes, then turn over if it's pretty well set in the middle and brown the bottom. To cook a small amount just fry pancake style in butter or something till brown then flip over. Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and milk...Yuck. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:08:13 +0000 (UTC) *paula* <freckletoes@comcast.net> writes: > oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe > for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was > so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded > milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it > was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I > can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's > cornybread covered with gravy!! > > paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook > xoxoxo > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cb286148dcba2131cm06duc ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Never had a fly swatter used on me. I got the razor strop. Guess that tells you how serious Mama thought my infraction was. <g> Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:24:06 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits/cluttered table/fly swatter > > I try to keep the table clear but it doesn't seem to ever get that way. To me, it's more "homey" to have a table with goodies and stuff on it....let's me know that someone actually lives here as opposed to just passin' through. MaKettle's table was always loaded so we ate at a make-shift counter that at one time had been a wall. There was always a fly swatter handy too at Gramma Ruth's. No one ever thought any thing about swattin' a fly and just flickin' it "where ever" - on the floor or out the door. sometimes one of the dogs would get it before Gramma did. And fly swatters were always useful for whappin' at kids' legs when they were being onery.....(uh,,,, don't try that now cuz it would be jail time fer shure!) > > paula in sw fla usa.....and that dang fly swatter could sting! > xoxoxo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55:21 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > > My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put away in its place. > My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. > When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be there Johnny-on-the-spot. > Emma > > > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 > > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > > > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! > > > > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber > > xoxoxo > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My inlaws always fried their eggs in plenty of bacon grease. I never thought anything of it, loved them cooked that way. Not too long ago, I had some bacon and I fried my eggs in the grease and I guess I've lost my taste for them that way. It wasn't as good as I remembered. You don't have to dip the tops of your biscuits in bacon grease, I just dip them in my Mazola oil. Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:18:17 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread/greased tops > > Gramma and mom always dipped the tops in bacon grease!! Glad you reminded me. I may be forced to buy some bacon just to try the biscuits. I would just like to make a few things and have them taste/look as I remember. When I was a kid, everyone (in the southern parts) had a coffee can of bacon drippin's by the stove. OMG!! After we moved north, one of the neighbor women saw our can of grease and was mortified.....thought she was gonna have a stroke right on the spot. She was sure we were all gonna be poisoned. I was grown and livin' in the "big city" before I found out an egg could be cooked without being smothered in hot bacon grease!! Who woulda thought..... > > paula in sw fla usa > xoxoxo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:48:39 PM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > > You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the tradition continues. <g> > Emma > > > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:54:54 -0500 > > From: askgranny@juno.com > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > > > Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , > > lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep > > heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown > > the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of > > cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat > > the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and > > milk...Yuck. Jeannie T > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My Mom used to keep certain things on the table at all times too, but, like you said, covered up with a small cloth to keep the flies away. Now, no one thinks of keeping anything on the table. Everything has to be put away in its place. My niece in MS keeps her table set with placemats and napkins, ready for the next meal. Not at my house I don't. My poor table is always so piled high with stuff I'm doing good to keep my placemat clear so I can see it. When you have that blackberry cobbler, be sure to let me know and I'll be there Johnny-on-the-spot. Emma > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:31:22 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Biscuits > > Seems like those old memories are the best of all. I sure miss those days....everything made sense and if not I sure didn't know! Gramma always had a couple of biscuits and cornbread and cobbler or pie and sausage and bacon ..... on the table covered so the flies couldn't get at it. Just had to come in and peep under the tablecloth to find a goody. Dirty face, dirty feet, dirty hands....grab somethin' and run back out the door. No gettin' scrubbed down with alcohol for fear of some unknown virus or bacteria! > > paula in sw fla usa.....thinkin' about blackberry cobbler.... slurp slurp slobber > xoxoxo >

That hot pan and grease will burn your fingers while dipping them biscuits in the grease if you don't watch out, just did that yesterday morning, my finger will survive but it wakes you up if you are still asleep. Watching mama dip them biscuits in the grease at the bottom of the tilted pan and listen to them sizzle when she flopped them over into place, some 60 or 70 years ago, was a learning experience for me and now a widdered old man can cook biscuits like my mama used to do. That old black pan has been replaced with a stainless steel pan that stays shiney bright if you scrub it with some bon-ami or something when you wash it, the old wood stove that I carried wood for and kept the box full, is now gone, but thinking about it brings back good memories. Wonder why we think about these things when we get old, maybe its because those were things we want to enjoy again. It's a shame our kids didn't experience those good times. On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, <askgranny@juno.com> wrote: > MY Mama used the back of a big spoon to slather bacon grease or lard on > the panned biscuits after she made them up in a big oval shaped wooden > bowl . I am just naturally lazy, and it seemed like just turning the > biscuits over in the lard was easier than messing up a spoon...She had > blackened steel biscuit pans...very dented and worse for wear, but they > held many delicious biscuits, Tea cakes, baked sweet potatoes Daddy grew > each year and even peanuts 'parched' in the oven of that old black iron > wood burning stove. HAPPY memories ! Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:48:39 -0700 Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > > > You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always > > dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the > > pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done > > it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw > > her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but > > said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the > > tradition continues. <g> > > Emma > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! > http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

MY Mama used the back of a big spoon to slather bacon grease or lard on the panned biscuits after she made them up in a big oval shaped wooden bowl . I am just naturally lazy, and it seemed like just turning the biscuits over in the lard was easier than messing up a spoon...She had blackened steel biscuit pans...very dented and worse for wear, but they held many delicious biscuits, Tea cakes, baked sweet potatoes Daddy grew each year and even peanuts 'parched' in the oven of that old black iron wood burning stove. HAPPY memories ! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:48:39 -0700 Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always > dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the > pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done > it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw > her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but > said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the > tradition continues. <g> > Emma ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210

When making cornbread or biscuits and trying to duplicate the recipes your Mama's or Grannies did the most important thing is you have to do is use the same brand /type of flour/cornmeal they used. Theres an amazing difference in brands. Mama used Gold Medal flour, I can't stand it and will use nothing but White Lily..which has been around more than 100 years......Another thing in this area...your older relative probably used 'straight ' or all purpose products rather than self rising...Self rising has flour and leavening mixed in...Straight cornmeal is just that...ground up corn. I THINK the Mexican corn meal would be the same...or maybe just plain flour or meal in your regular brand. I used to get cornmeal ground on a gasoline powered rig at the County Fair and it was very coarse grind....I see plain meal at the store..but prefer to use the self rising, and I still put flour in my corn bread...I measure out about 2 big handfuls of self rising yellow meal and add in a handful of self rising flour....and about a tablespoonful of sugar to help it brown and to help the texture...You can't taste it...I also add 2 eggs instead of 1 , melted butter, and cook it in butter....since reading how unhealthy vegetable shortening is...I fry it in a pone on top of the stove...very low heat and covered..about 10 minutes, then turn over if it's pretty well set in the middle and brown the bottom. To cook a small amount just fry pancake style in butter or something till brown then flip over. Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and milk...Yuck. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:08:13 +0000 (UTC) *paula* <freckletoes@comcast.net> writes: > oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe > for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was > so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded > milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it > was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I > can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's > cornybread covered with gravy!! > > paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook > xoxoxo > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cb286148dcba2131cm06duc

You reminded me of something my daughter said. My mother always dipped her biscuit tops in the grease, then turned them over in the pan. This was to brown the tops. She did it, so I have always done it too. Now, my daughter does the same thing. She said someone saw her do that and asked her why she did it. She explained why, but said her mother and grandma had done it so she did too. So, the tradition continues. <g> Emma > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:54:54 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > Biscuits are cooked the same way....on the stove top. Just melt butter , > lay the biscuits in and turn them so the tops are buttered. Cover , keep > heat very low. . They cook quickly...When browned, flip over and brown > the top....5 to 10 minutes per side.... Be sure and save a goodly slab of > cornbread for crumbling up in milk...Sweet milk or buttermilk...I reheat > the leftover 'pone' for this....Hubby will occasionally eat biscuit and > milk...Yuck. Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >

Hi Emma..... I fry it too...same recipe just a bit thinner - like a pancake. If you get a bag of the easy pre-made like Aunt Jemima's or Quakers it only takes a sec to whap up a batch...I think it's add egg/milk only. You should give it a try....how bad could it be?? paula in sw fla usa.... xoxoxo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:20:48 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. Ohh, you just ruined that nice brown cornybread with the gravy. No, I'll take mine plain to eat with some good fresh vegetables, or crumbled into a glass of milk. That sounds soooo good. My mother used to fry cornbread on top of the stove. I have no idea how she did it but when she just wanted a small amount of cornbread, like for herself, she would fry it instead of baking it. It isn't something I would want all the time but I wish I knew her recipe for doing it. Emma > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:08:13 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's cornybread covered with gravy!! > > paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook > xoxoxo > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's cornybread covered with gravy!! paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook xoxoxo

Thanks, I may try this Emma > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:26:52 +0000 > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > Hi Emma..... I fry it too...same recipe just a bit thinner - like a pancake. If you get a bag of the easy pre-made like Aunt Jemima's or Quakers it only takes a sec to whap up a batch...I think it's add egg/milk only. You should give it a try....how bad could it be?? > > paula in sw fla usa.... > xoxoxo > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> > To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:20:48 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > > Ohh, you just ruined that nice brown cornybread with the gravy. No, I'll take mine plain to eat with some good fresh vegetables, or crumbled into a glass of milk. That sounds soooo good. > > My mother used to fry cornbread on top of the stove. I have no idea how she did it but when she just wanted a small amount of cornbread, like for herself, she would fry it instead of baking it. It isn't something I would want all the time but I wish I knew her recipe for doing it. > Emma > > > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:08:13 +0000 > > From: freckletoes@comcast.net > > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] scalded milk cornbread???. > > > > oh for corn sakes.... dug out mom's old cookbook and found a recipe for cornybread using scalded milk. Anyone ever hear of this. It was so simple...no flour...just baking powder/salt/corn meal/scalded milk/egg. I am trying to duplicate my Gramma Ruth's cornybread....it was grainy...and sorta dry. But I'll be dang diddley durned - I can't get it right. Am just about to die for some of Gramma's cornybread covered with gravy!! > > > > paula in sw fla usa....it's finally cool enough to cook > > xoxoxo > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message