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Part 6 of Beyond The Cotton Fields. The storyline of the book was completed in Part 5 that I previously shared. Part 6 is the back of the book where I shared old family recepies and gave credit to my sources for some of the information shared throughout the book. Pictures in the book were not able to be shared due to limitations with the blog format. I hope you have enjoyed my life's story from birth through 1978 when I made the difficult decision to leave my hometown and move north to Kentucky. What happened after 1978? Life. Children, grandchildren and all the stages of life that have led me to be a senior citizen. I have been blessed.
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Take the gizzards and simmer them in salt water for one hour
Add more salt and 1 table spoon of butter after one hour
Add pepper and simmer another half hour
Thicken with flour and milk during the second hour
Cook until thick and tender
Cut steak into 1 inch cubes. Melt butter in large skillet. Coat beef cubes with flour. Put into skillet and brown. Pour consume into skillet and simmer 1 ½ hours on low heat. Scrape bottom of pan ever 15 minutes. Mix sour cream, whipping cream and tomato paste until blended. Mix with cooked beef. Serve over cooked rice.
Place uncooked rice, soup, onion and butter in a 2 quart baking dish. Bake at 325 for 1 to 1 ½ hours. Stir occasionally, add water if it gets dry.
Lay bread in bottom of a 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle meat evenly over bread. Mix milk and eggs. Beat well, pour over meat and bread. Sprinkle cheese evenly over the top. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Cook sweet potatoes in water to cover until tender to touch with fork. Drain potatoes and mash. Add butter, sugar and vanilla. Stir. Put in baking dish. Add marshmallows on top bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
Melt butter, sugar and garlic powder to make paste. Gather 8-10 green beans for each bundle. Wrap each bundle with a ½ slice of bacon. Place bundles in a 9x13 pan and pour paste over bundles. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
Brown hamburger meat and onion, drain. Boil and drain noodles. Layer: 3 noodles on bottom of 9x13 baking dish, then 1/3 of cottage cheese, 1/3 of hamburger meat, onion and Ragu sauce, 1 cup mozzarella cheese, and then sprinkle Parmesan cheese on each layer and finish by topping off with noodles. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until bubbles in center.
Cut chicken breast into 1-1 1/2 inch wide strips. Wrap each strip with a slice of corned beef and a 1/2 slice of bacon, place in shallow baking dish (single layers only). Mix sour cream and cream of chicken soup and pour evenly over chicken roll ups. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Mix pie filling, thawed strawberries, mandarin oranges and pineapples in bowl. Slice bananas. Put in juice and let soak for a few minutes. Drain juice and throw away. Add bananas to fruit mixture. Refrigerate.
1ST Layer
2nd Layer
3rd Layer
Mix 1st layer and put in a 9x13 pan. Heat in oven at 400 for 5 minutes: let cool. Mix and add second layer then mix and add third layer. Chill.
Caramelize sugar, add ¾ C of water and add to milk and sugar mixture.
Beat eggs and add other hot mixture a little at a time, beating as you add. Cool and add vanilla. Freeze in ice cream freezer.
Beat egg yolks and all but 1 tbs. sugar. While beating over hot water, add lemon juice and grated rind. Remove from heat when thick and chill. Beat egg white, adding extra sugar. Beat cream till thick. Fold chilled mixture into egg white and cream. Pour into buttered freezing tray lined with crushed vanilla wafers. Freeze fast. Serve with whipped cream.
Cream sugar and butter add flour and eggs alternately then flavoring. Bake in tube pan in slow oven at least 45 minutes. Do not preheat oven. Set at 325.
Cream together margarine and cream cheese, then add 1 cup flour, 1 egg add 1 C sugar alternately until all has been added. Then add vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube or bunt pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hour. Do not preheat oven.
Beat sugar and egg yolks, add cocoa, flour and milk a little at a time. Stir and try to stir out any lumps. Cook over medium heat. Stir until it thickens. Pour into baked pie shell.
Meringue
Mix egg whites, cream of tartar and cornstarch. Beat until soft peaks form. Add sugar slowly. Beat until stiff peaks form. Spoon onto pie all the way to the edges. Bake at 325 for 15 minutes.
Put butter & Cocoa on stove, melt, beat sugar and eggs together. Then add butter & Cocoa. Then add flour, nuts and vanilla and cook in pan. Cut marshmallow in halves and cover top of cake while hot.
Icing:
Let cream and butter just come to a boil. Add sugar and cocoa through sifter. If it is to stiff add butter and cream. Do not put on cake until cake is cool. Double the recipe when using a 9 X 13 pan.
FACES
FACES CHANGE SO QUICKLY NOW
THE PEOPLE WE ONCE KNEW
IT IS SAID WE WERE 20 ONCE
NOW WE ARE SOMEONE NEW
While writing this book I had a dream one night. That is certainly not unusual for me. I dream often and on wide scale of things from the vivid to the surreal. Most of the time when I awaken I realize I had a dream. Sometimes I remember them, but more often than not, I cannot remember what I dreamed about.
One night I was dreaming and talking in my sleep. I woke up and I was saying the rhyme that is at the top of this page. I have no idea where it came from. I do not remember hearing it before… I could have. But, something told me to get up and write it down before it vanished from my thoughts forever. And something told me to include it in the beginning of this book.
Whether it was something I had heard in the past or something that was given to me in my sleep, I may never know. When it comes to my life I feel it is accurate. We do not stay the same. We change. We are not the same people we were when we were younger, nor will we be the same people twenty years from now.
My oldest brother, Terry, began working for the Veterans Administration in the early 1970s and eventually became the Chief of Pharmacy for the Jackson Veterans Affairs.
My brother, Tonny, helped organize poultry workers and pulpwood haulers in Mississippi and Alabama. He began working for Alabama Dry Docks and Ship Building in Mobile, Alabama where he became the president of their union. Later he became a paralegal and at the age of 50 graduated from law school. He is currently the Director of Inner City Missions in Mobile, Alabama.
As for myself, I joined Westvaco in Wickliffe, Kentucky in 1978. Westvaco was a paper company, which began in 1888 as a family owned operation on the Potomac River and in the early years was called the Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company. In later years the name became West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company and it was shortened to Westvaco. Westvaco merged with Mead in later years and became MeadWestvaco. In 2005 some of the paper mills were sold and became NewPage Corporation, one of North America's largest coated paper companies. In January 2015 the mill was bought by Verso Paper Company. I continued to work there until November of that year when Verso decided to close the mill for good. Five months prior to the closing of the mill I finally had enough seniority to land a dayshift job. I had worked there thirty seven years.
Bibliography and suggested readings:
Bennett, John Stuart. John Adams Bennett-Kith and Kin. Privately Published 1988?
Clark, Thomas D. and Roland, Charles P. and Klotter, James C. My Century in History. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press 2005.
Cunningham, Bill. A DISTANT LIGHT Kentucky's Journey Toward Racial Justice. Kuttawa, Ky. McClanahan Publishing House, Incorporated 2005.
Cunningham, Bill. Kentucky's Thomas D. Clark. Kuttawa, Ky. McClanahan Publishing House, Incorporated 1987.
Garrett, Hazel Crenshaw and Taunton, Louis. Winston County, Mississippi Cemeteries. Louisville, Mississippi, G&T Publishers 1993.
Hoffman, Jennie Newsom. A History of Winston County. Winston County Supervisor Federal Writer's Project Works Progress Administration 1938. The Winston County Library's Board of Trustees 1955. Republished by Louis Taunton and Taunton Publishers.
Lewis, William T. The Centennial History of Winston County, Mississippi. Pasadena: Globe Publishers International, 1970.
Lowen, James W. LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME. Touchstone: New York 1995, 2007.
Majure, Nicholas Woody. A TIME THAT WAS LOUISVILLE, 1939-1945-46. Hazlett Printers and Publishers, 1983.
Parker, William A. ALDERMANS IN AMERICA. Published Privately: Raleigh, N.C. 1957, Reprinted 1977 Edwards & Broughton Co. Raleigh, N.C.
Parkes, Nancy Randolph. Winston County And Its People. Written and Edited By Louis Taunton and Nancy R. Parkes. Copyrighted by The Winston County Genealogical and Historical Society. Louisville, Mississippi 1980.
Genealogy information credited in the chapter; Family History Information.
Latin phrases ending the chapters were courtesy of Justin Wainscott.
Photos: Courtesy of NewPage, Russell Ray, Margaret Tutor, Winston County Journal and personal collection.
Recipes credited in chapter; FAMILY RECIPES.
Selected quotations from THE HOLY BIBLE.
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