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