[Sca-cooks] bacon in corn bread

[marilyn traber 011221]

> I don't know about recipe books, but that is how my grandmother 
> made it. We aren't African American...my heritage is pure West 
> Virginia hillbilly (Clay County to be exact). I remember her 
> keeping a coffee can next to the stove to collect the bacon grease 
> for use in other recipes.
> 
> Ysabeau
> Barony of Bryn Gwlad
> Ansteorra

Yeah, use of bacon grease in everything isn't a racial thing. it's a poor 
Southerner thing. I remember my mother came back from visiting a boyfriend's 
folks in Kentucky, and she couldn't get over a couple things, one being that 
they cooked all vegetation to death, the other that they put bacon or bacon 
grease into everything.

My mother still talks about the evening, some time later, when he was over 
for dinner, and he was complaining about the ice cream flavor. I looked at 
him and ask, "What's the matter- want some bacon grease on it?" and he 
stomped off in a snit. She was laughing too hard, to kill me...

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