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In a message dated 7/31/2006 11:26:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

Those tomatoes will taste just fine with some Virginia ham on warm biscuits . . .

I had planned to put in Grandma's biscuit recipe, and went ot find it. She taught me how some forty years ago, but it seems she never wrote down the recipe, and I won't start writing it down now... though I still make them.

Grandma was eleventh generation Virginian so I expect her corn bread recipe's been around for a while. It was written down several generations ago and I must remind folks that one must allow it to "set" unless you prefer corn bread borderline spoon bread, as my family does!

First, either fry some bacon or some apples in an iron skillet. This part isn't in the directions, but you just have to know to do it. If frying bacon, drain off the excess, if frying apples draining isn't necessary. Keep skillet warm and turn on the over to a hot oven (about 425 degrees). No, it's not time to put the skillet in the oven.

Here beginneth the written receipt as recorded by Frances Greenhow Holladay...

mix with boiling water (about 2 cups) & boil a few min. to make a rather stiff mush--add

2 eggs -- mix well & pour into hot iron frying pan which has been seasoned [you remembered to fry your apples/bacon, right?] Cook in hot oven until brown -- about 20 min or less

sometimes it will be done & brown on bottom--turn on "broiler" & brown top--

I'd bring some moonshine to the picnic, but the still in the front hall of the Amherst County Museum will no longer accommodate. It is legally available for purchase at a place in Culpeper County, VA, somewhere...

I've been informed that the still at the Museum was also used for apple brandy, and Amherst County, VA, is home to the Ralls Genet apple, according to apple historian Tom Burford. This is the apple that was crossed with the Red Delicious to create the ever popular Fuji apple.

So my contribution is corn bread, soem Ralls Genets, and apple brandy...

I think I brought this kind of line-up last year, but since these have been around for generations, I suppose I can repeat from year to year!

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