Lovie FombyFamily Treasures I guess my fondest memories of childhood are about Christmas. Seems like we always had so many people and so much fun! I remember one year Mable and I had picked out the dolls we wanted (from the Sears catalog, I think) Santa to bring us. Well, Santa got them mixed up. … Continue reading Nett’s Memories
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Lovie’s Memories
Lovie FombyFamily Treasures Christmas was really a special time for all of us. Daddy (we three younger ones, namely myself, Mable, and Nett for some reason always said Daddy instead of Papa like all the others) always bought a crate of apples, oranges, a stalk of bananas, and a big round of cheese. This was … Continue reading Lovie’s Memories
Reba’s Memories
Lovie FombyFamily Treasures Bake when I was little I remember when we had a new sister or brother, Papa would cook breakfast, he made up his biscuits in a bowl and poured them in pan to cook, then cut into pieces, they were good with some jelly. When we would have unexpected company to come … Continue reading Reba’s Memories
SWEETS
Lovie FombyFamily Treasures MAMA'S COCONUT FROSTING Take 2 full cups of a little more sugar, put in sauce pan. Mama always used pure cream, put a cup of the cream, (she skimmed her cream from a crock of fresh milk) but you can buy a carton of whipping cream, put this on and let cook … Continue reading SWEETS
VEGETABLES
Lovie FombyFamily Treasures FRESH TURNIP GREENS Fresh Turnip Greens and other vegetables such as string beans, peas, and butter beans. Mama picked the greens, she always took out the big stems, washed real good put in pot with water about half way covering greens, they cook down, add a big piece of slat pork to … Continue reading VEGETABLES
MEATS
Lovie FombyFamily Treasures SMOTHERED STEAK AND GRAVY Mama would take a round steak or any kind you could cut into serving size pieces, beat it with a saucer, salt and pepper, then flour real good, put in a big black iron skillet with oil in it, brown real brown, drain off, cover with boiling water, … Continue reading MEATS
Mama’s Cooking
All of us that grew up on Mama's cooking remember it as something special -- just the best food we ever tasted. No wonder we all love food. Reba cooks more like Mama than any of us and she took the time to write down for us a few things as Mama cooked them. I … Continue reading Mama’s Cooking
Shiloh To Canaan Kitchen 