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Skriven 2014-02-20 09:09:00 av Dave Drum (73690.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 10074 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Lard
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Ruth Haffly Said to Dave Drum about Lard

RH>  DD> And a little light went off in my head "lard is pig fat - bacon
RH>  DD> grease is pig fat".   Bv)=

RH>  DD> The pie was different but very well received.

RH> One of those "hey, why not?" moments that turned out quite
RH> successful. Sounds like it was downright tasty--wonder how the fat
RH> from the pepper bacon we get up in NY would work. Probably quite
RH> well, and add a slightly different, tho not ovjectionable, taste.

Subsequent pies were sometimes made with bacon dripping mixed with the 
lard. We did bacon loooooong before it became the "in" thing it is 
today.

RH> RH> How did you churn the butter--with an old fashioned churn? I
RH> RH> used either my stand mixer or a blender. Started with the
RH> RH> former, later switched to using the latter as it was a lot
RH> RH> faster.

RH>  DD> The were old fashion - heated their house with a coal stove in
RH>  DD> the living room. Water was pumped from a well or cistern (for
RH>  DD> soft water). Air conditioning was fans from the local funeral
RH>  DD> home. Milking was done by hand. And both the churn and the
RH>  DD> cream separator were run by hand.

RH> That would have been quite the job, especially as they got older.

Heck, I was a pre-teen and they were my mother's aunties - so they were 
"old" as old gets.  Bv)=

RH>  DD> The only nod to modernity other than having electric lights and
RH>  DD> refrigeration (for the milk and some food) was a "bottle-gas"
RH>  DD> cook stove. Even the telephone was a wall-mounted, hand cranked
RH>  DD> unit.

RH> Were they on a party line too?

It was a hand-cranked wall instrument - their "ring" was two longs and 
two shorts. When the phone company replaced the cranked wall phones with 
more modern "Number Please" (no dial) telephones all the brothers and 
sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins kept their old, original 
instruments and set up their own family phone system - which ran on the 
top strand of barbed wire of the fences - with jumpers added as needed. 
Both the family system and the telephone company system were party 
lines.

If you saw the movie "In The Heat Of The Night" you saw my uncles Rob 
and Tom and Uncle Rob's son Robert at the implement dealer in Sparta 
(IL, not MS) they had several days work as extras on that film.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Bayou Shrimp Creole
 Categories: Cajun, Seafood, Stews, Chilies
      Yield: 16 Servings
 
      1 c  Oil
      1    Whole stalk celery; diced
      5 c  Onions; sliced
      1 c  Chilli sauce
      1 ts Curry powder
      3 lg Bay leaf
     20 oz (2 boxes) frozen sliced okra
     32 oz Tomatoes (2 #303 cans)
      3 lg Bell peppers; sliced
           Leaves of the celery stalk;
           - chopped
      1 ts Thyme
           Salt, red & black pepper
    1/2 c  Chopped parsley
      5 lb Shrimp; cleaned, deveined
 
  Heat oil in lg. frying pan. Add green peppers, celery,
  celery leaves and onions. Cook over low heat, stirring
  until vegetables are slightly softened. Add remaining
  ingredients except shrimp. Cover and simmer for 1 hour,
  stirring occasionally.
  
  Refrigerate for 24 hours. Add shrimp 1 hour before
  serving; heat thoroughly.
  
  Serve over hot cooked rice.
  
  Courtesy Telephone Pioneers
  
  Meal Master Format by Dave Drum - 13 November 1998

  NOTE: I've made this without the snot pods - using File'
  powder for the thickening and additional celery and bell
  pepper to make up for the bulk of the missing okra.
  
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