[Sca-cooks] bacon in corn bread

[Elaine Koogler]

marilyn traber 011221 wrote:
>> 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
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> 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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I don't think it's even a poor southerner thing, to be honest.  My 
mother did grow up in the south, and, while her family wasn't wealthy, 
they were not really what I'd call poor.  And her mother did use bacon 
drippings to season things.  In fact, I still do...and, to be honest, I 
still enjoy a good pot of green beans cooked with a ham hock or bacon 
drippings for a good while, then served with chopped onions and chopped 
tomatoes.  Mmmmmmmm.  Don't eat them that way all of the time, but I do 
get hungry for it now and then. 

Kiri