Two Great Recipes (For Today...).

I've got to share these two great recipes. The following is the best recipe for corn bread that I have ever found. If you know of a better one, share it.

Corn Bread

1 cup Corn Meal
1 cup Unbleached Flour
1 tsp. Salt
2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar
¼ cup Melted Shortening (or Butter, etc.)
2 Eggs, well-beaten
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1½ cup Sour Milk (simply add 1 Tbsp. Apple Cider Vinegar to ea. cup of Fresh Milk)
¾ tsp. Baking Soda

~Mix dry ingredients, except Corn Meal, and sift. Add Corn Meal. Cream Shortening (or Butter, etc.), Eggs and Sugar. Add this to Sour Milk, and add dry ingredients. Don't overmix. Only mix till smooth. Bake in shallow well-greased pan in 25° oven for 25-30 minutes.

[This recipe is from "YES you may have the recipe" by Maria Baker. And as I said, it is certainly the best version of Corn Bread I have ever had.]

This one is for the gourmets. When my father and I took a historic tour of the east coast in 1998, we went to a fancy restaurant in Virginia that served us this soup. Mine always had lumps in it. But you know, theirs did too.

CREAM OF PEANUT SOUP...

1 qt. Chicken Stock
2 Carrots, chopped
1 Yellow Onion, peeled & chopped
1 cup Smooth-Style Peanut Butter
1 cup Whipping Cream
½ cup Dry-Roasted Peanuts
Salt & Pepper, to taste
Tabasco, to taste

~Boil Stock, & simmer Carrots till tender. Purée & return to pan. Add rest of ingredients & simmer. Most people thicken with a roux. I often just add premade white sauce.

Yeah, this was one of George Washington's favorites.

 

Frozen (not thawed) deep-dish pie shell.
Cover bottom with 1 cup shredded cheese.
Fill with thinly sliced Vidalia onions.
Beat 5 large eggs with a cup of half & half; pour over onions.
Bake 400 degrees F for 55-60 minutes.