Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was a child and my grandfather was still farming in North Louisiana, they were still using a wood stove. My Grandmother would get up and make a couple pans of biscuits, three skillets of cornbread, and put some snap beans and maybe some potatoes on the back burner. She would fry up some ham and maybe sausage, and then my grandfather would come in and fry the eggs. Everyone got theirs cooked the way they liked them, and there was usually a crowd there. One pan of the cornbread was taken out and split between the two blue tick hounds. The rest stayed on the table after breakfast, like Tina says, covered with a cloth. Buttermilk with cornbread was popular, as was blazing hot coffee poured into the saucer so it could cool, and then sipped from the saucer. Another thing my grandmother liked with cornbread was clabber. That's unpasturized milk that is allowed to curdle, kinda like yogurt, I guess. When we came in for supper, sometimes they fried up some fish if anyone had caught them, otherwise it was probably smoked ham. My folks were not very well off by today's standards, but I don't ever remember being hungry there. Sonny In a message dated 4/12/2004 9:13:48 AM Central Standard Time, images@InfoAve.Net writes: At 09:44 AM 4/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: >>We, on the farm, used to have breakfast, lunch (called dinner!) and high >>tea about 6.00 pm. We did not have dinner. It was, apparently, much more >>healthy but most people eat their main meal in the evening nowadays. It used to be the same in the rural South. The biggest meal of the day was dinner - at noon. Then everybody went back out and worked on the farm all day. Supper was either leftovers (that had been sitting on the table covered with cloth to keep off the flies) or, if there were no leftovers, a glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it. Now people are not at home in the middle of the day so the big meal has migrated to supper - not nearly as healthy to eat and go to bed. I've always heard you should eat breakfast like a king (or queen), lunch like a prince, and supper like a pauper. Tina Regards, Sonny _http://www.sonc.com_ (http://www.sonc.com/) "You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, if you try, you can get what you need" The Rolling Stones