Simple Recipes

Here are two things Momma made out of nothing--

Crystal Candy

Take an iron skillet 

Get it red hot

Dump a cup of sugar 

In the red hot skillet

Stir with a spoon

Let crystals form

But don't let it melt

Pour out on a plate

Break up in pieces!

This makes a simple sugar candy--

Something like a mint you would buy

When you are poor and don't have candy

It is really good--especially to a little child.

Mush

Dump a cup or corn mean in an iron skillet

The skillet needs to be red hot

Stir and let the meal turn brown--roasted

Pour this out into a bowl...don't let it burn!

Put about a qt. of water in a pot

Add a half teaspoon of salt

Bring to a boil

Add the roasted corn meal

Stir continually until it is thick!

This is a breakfast mush 

For families who run out of oatmeal.

Serve with butter globbed 

In the middle of your bowl

With several spoons of sugar

and about a fourth cup of cream.

Momma would have a hot biscuit to eat with it.

Daddy would crumble his into the mush.  Momma was a soldier. 

She would make good food out of nothing. She could take biscuit 

dough and roll it out put cinnamon and sugar and butter and some 

sweet cow cream.  She'd bake it and oh, it was gooie and  a lot better

than any cinnamon roll I have bought in a doughnut shop.