In the Kitchen
Aunt Bill Rambles – Hummingbird Cake
Well this here ain’t what I aimed to write about today but. . . Last week Billie let me prowl around on her Facebook page and I see’d this recipe fer Hummingbird Cake. This woman said “Hit wuz to die fer.” Well, hit nearly killed me to try to make one today. I wuz dumb as…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Update
Things here at the home place just keep moving along and the old couple struggle to try to half way keep up. About the gardening — we have the tackiest tomato plants you’ve ever seen — they have not had enough sunshine and they are spindly. I’m not sure the Better Boys are going to…
Read MoreThe Carrot Casserole
Casserole was a new word for me when I was probably 11 or 12 years old. As I told you before, I grew up right here on the Windy Knoll and we were quite secluded. There was not another house in sight. All we could see was row crops growing in the fields bordered by thick woods. …
Read MoreOld-Fashion Tea Cakes
Unfortunately this is not my mother’s recipe — that is if she had one. She refused to have self-rising flour in her kitchen. She thought the cook should be smart enough to know how cook with plain flour. Duh! I use it lots — convenience is worth something. I want to call your attention to…
Read MoreGrandmother’s Pitcher
This could be called the mystery pitcher as I’ve showed it to numerous so-called pottery experts and no two agree on where it was made or how old it is. In the 1990’s a rep from the Birmingham Museum of Art came here to photograph things made in Alabama prior to 1930 and she told…
Read MoreDecisions and Changes 1992
Vessels — my mother’s term for pots and pans and if they were dirty, they were littered vessels. We’ve laughed many times about her usages. Mother used many terms that we no longer hear, such as drayage fee (freight charges), dung (manure) and conveyance (vehicle). Our girls decided some time ago that we needed to…
Read MoreOld-timey Dishwashing 1989
What a wonderful thing — the dishwasher. We have come a long way with our dish washing, or have we? As I unloaded this machine I find a fork that has to be done over — just like I had to do in days of old. I had an “Inspector #12”, but her name was “Mother”…
Read MoreIt’s Life in the Winter Time 1989
What a wonderful day – the snow is falling. I have a quilt or two under way, we are well, and Sister and Jill are warm and content here on the sun porch with us. John is thankful that he looked ahead and put out enough hay for the cows yesterday. The wind is really…
Read MoreBaking Cookies
For the past several days I’ve tried to bake cookies and every day something comes up that interferes. We were completely out of anything sweet in this house and John can’t stand it without sweets to nibble on. With bad weather in the forecast, cookies may come in handy as a comfort food and we’ll need…
Read MoreFlipper’s Back 2009
If you read articles written by Paul Finebaum, then you already know that Flipper is what he called Urban Meyer, coach at the University of Florida, when he said he was going to quit coaching and didn’t (or at least hasn’t yet). Having read this, I thought Flipper might be a fitting name for yours…
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