Hello and welcome to my Holiday pages. Thanksgiving was always a special time at our house when I was child. Mama would start preparing days ahead. We children had to crack out the pecans and break them up in pieces for the cookies, pies and breads they would fill. Mama would make and roll out homemade pie crusts and before long the counters would be covered with everyone's favorites; Pumpkin, pecan, sweet potato, egg custard. She made homemade dressing from scratch, collard greens, sweet potato souffle, big buttery yeast rolls and much more. She passed on her love of good food to me and fortunately for me taught me how to cook as well. I hope you enjoy the recipes below.
Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients:
3 ½ cups White Lily Self-Rising Flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon nutmeg
2 ½ cups sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 (16 ounce) can pumpkin
Cooking Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F. Coat two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray and a light dusting of flour.
Mix flour, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg in a small bowl. In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, oil, and eggs. Beat until blended. Add pumpkin; blend well. Pour batter into prepared pans.
Bake 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pans and cool on wire rack.
Makes 2 loaves.
Buttermilk Pie
2 cups sugar
3 tbsp. plain flour
3 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell (9-inch)
Cream butter with electric mixer, gradually add sugar. Add flour and beat until smooth. Add eggs, blend with mixer. Add buttermilk and vanilla: beat well. Pour filling into pie shell. Bake @ 400 for 5 minutes, then reduce oven to 350
and bake another 45 minutes. Cool before cutting.
Chicken and Dressing
Ingredients:
1 large hen for stewing
1 med. onion, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
1 homemade batch cornbread, any recipe
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1/2 small box Kellogg's cornflakes
4 pieces of toasted bread, any kind
Instructions:
Boil hen till tender, cool and debone, reserve your broth! Set meat aside and make cornbread, while it's baking you can start your chicken broth to boiling, add your chopped celery, onions and salt and pepper to taste. Boil on med. heat 20 min. or till onions and celery are tender. When cornbread has cooled enough to touch, crumble it into the chicken broth and add the crackers, crumbled, to the broth. You may only need half of the pack, break toasted bread into small pieces and add it, add the cornflakes and then mix all this together well. I find a potato masher makes an excellent tool. You can mash AND mix with it. Taste the dressing as you go to check the consistencey. If it seems dry, add a little water and stir. It should be moist enough that it sticks to itself, and falls from the spoon easily when you hold the spoon up. Fold in the chicken pieces and then pour the mixture into a large baking pan or dish. Bake at 350-375 for 45 minutes or till top is slightly browned.
Southern Sisters Blessings Page
Thanksgiving Greetings
Thanksgiving midis with lyrics
Butterball's Perfect Turkey
WagSouth's Heritage Holiday Recipes
Holiday Traditions at MeMa'a Holiday House
Jarah's Thanksgiving Page
Robin's Thanksgiving page
HUMOR
The Turkey popped out of the oven
and rocketed in to the air;
It knocked every plate off the table
and partly demolished a chair.
It ricocheted into a corner
and burst with a deafening boom,
Then splattered all over the kitchen,
completely obscuring the room.
It stuck to the walls and the windows,
it totally coated the floor,
There was turkey attached to the ceiling,
where there had never been turkey before..
It blanketed every appliance,
it smeared every saucer and bowl;
There wasn't a way I could stop it;
that turkey was out of control.
I scraped and I scraped with displeasure
and thought with chagrin as I mopped,
That I would never again stuff a turkey
with popcorn that hadn't been popped.
-written by Jack Prelutsky
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Turkey Riddles
What did the mother turkey say to
her disobedient children?
If your father could see you now,
he'd turn over in his gravy!
Why do Pilgrims have trouble keeping their pants up?
'Cause they wear their belts on their hats!
What is the difference between a chicken and a turkey?
Chickens celebrate Thanksgiving!!
What is the Turkey's favorite black tie celebration?
The Butter Ball
How does a Turkey drink her wine?
In a gobble-let
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Humor sent to me by: Graham Cracker
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