Butter Milk Or Sweet Milk ? - Page 7

Rhoni · #61 05-19-2007, 08:40 AM

Oh yeah, this thread is about milk...I drink sweet milk but I make great homemade BUTTERMILK biscuits

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Blessings, Rhoni

Digging4Truth · #62 05-19-2007, 08:41 AM

Hmmmm... y'all got me thinkin' now. (Texanese there)

I have always known how important buttermilk is to making a self respecting biscuit because of the acidity but I have never once gave any thought to using buttermilk in cornbread.

Could it be that, after 43 years of living, I have never yet tasted REAL cornbread.

Hmmmm

Off to the Bat-Cave for more research.

chosenbyone · #63 05-19-2007, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Falla39

Bro.Chosen,

This reminds me of one of our great sons in law, whose family was

in the commercial honey bee business. When he became a part of our family

it was somewhat comical as he ate honey on everything. Honey on his eggs,

honey on veggies, honey on his steak. I am not kidding and it is almost tragic

for him even now if he thinks he is going to run out of honey before his Dad

and Mom's next trip down to Texas. They are in North Dakota.

But guess what! He has our whole family liking honey more and more. They

have been married 25 yrs. and have five healthy sons. No wonder this is

ONE of my very favorite sons in law (we have 3). He is SOOO sweet! Honey

sweetened!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream!

Blessings,

Falla39

Sister,

You're showing your funny side this morning...He's so sweet...

I remember my granddaddy never bought store-bought honey. He would go out in the woods and find a bees' nest and get some of that honeycomb and place in a jar.

You'd always see that mason jar with that honeycomb on his table. There were so many things that my mother's family were able to find in the woods. Wild berries for jellies, honey and of course all sort of wild game to eat. My grandma who was half Choctaw would go out and find a cure for just about any ailment that you could think of.

It amazes me even more today to think how resourceful they were and how our society now has lost many of those old ways. I have so many great memories of those precious family members that contributed so much to my life.

Have a great day....By the way, I enjoyed my email yesterday.

chosen

chosenbyone · #64 05-19-2007, 09:32 AM

This may be a little off topic, but when my mother and I first started to get acquainted, I was dumbfounded by some of the things she would cook and prepare for her husband who was half Arab and half Mexican.

One day, I went to their house and there was a pillow case that had a bunch of moisture seeping through the cloth. I had never seen anything like that, so I asked my mother what in the world was that hanging from her tree.

She had learned to cook many of the traditional foods that her husband ate and one thing he enjoyed was a spread that was essentially curdled cream/milk and a few spices.

She would make this concoction and wrap it layer it with cloth and the like and then place it in a pillow case. She would cinch up the top of the pillow case and hang it outside for three days. That would allow time for all the moisture from the cream/milk to drip out of the pillow case leaving just this curdled white substance.

Then she would bring it in and scoop out the contents and place it in a jar of olive oil, which her husband used instead of butter.

Does anyone know what that was called? It could be found in many Arab homes. I've been trying to remember the name since early this morning.

Anyway, she must have really loved that man because that stuff stunk to high heaven.

chosen

Malvaro · #65 05-22-2007, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by chosenbyone

Are you a yankee? Cat head biscuits were cooked nearly every morning growing up in East Texas. So, many fond memories of my auntie early in the morning pounding out the dough for those biscuits.

I sure miss her.

Very much a Yankee and proud of it....