Ky hills
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In my family growing up, both my grandmothers were widows and between them and my mother they put on quite a spread for Thanksgiving dinner, and Christmas dinner was pretty much the same.
We always had turkey and country ham, for the meat, most times for TG we'd have scalloped oysters too.
Homemade dressing made from biscuits and cornbread with chopped onions and broth from the turkey. Turkey gravy on the dressing and mashed potatoes.
Corn pudding, broccoli casserole, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce.
One of my grandmother's specialties was baked cushaw, she peeled it and baked it with some cream, butter, and brown sugar, it was as good as a desert, but served with the main meal.
My other grandmother was famous for her fruit salad. Bananas, canned pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, little marshmallows, mixed in with a dressing of heavy whipping cream a little lemon juice and not sure if there was anything else or not, but it sure was good.
For desserts pecan pie, my grandmother's pumpkin pie, it was different than most peoples version of pumpkin pie, in that she made it like a crème pie it had a much softer lighter texture and she put a meringue on top.
Banana pudding was almost always served too.
For Christmas my mother always made jam cake, with a caramel like icing.
We used to make a lot of candy around Thanksgiving and Christmas chocolate fudge, chewy caramel, pull candy
It was my jobs to wrap the caramel candy, and to get the pull candy started because I could tolerate working with it sooner while it was still fairly hot.
I keep thinking I want to try to make some of those candy recipes. I helped with it but never did any of the preparation or cooking.
We always had turkey and country ham, for the meat, most times for TG we'd have scalloped oysters too.
Homemade dressing made from biscuits and cornbread with chopped onions and broth from the turkey. Turkey gravy on the dressing and mashed potatoes.
Corn pudding, broccoli casserole, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce.
One of my grandmother's specialties was baked cushaw, she peeled it and baked it with some cream, butter, and brown sugar, it was as good as a desert, but served with the main meal.
My other grandmother was famous for her fruit salad. Bananas, canned pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, little marshmallows, mixed in with a dressing of heavy whipping cream a little lemon juice and not sure if there was anything else or not, but it sure was good.
For desserts pecan pie, my grandmother's pumpkin pie, it was different than most peoples version of pumpkin pie, in that she made it like a crème pie it had a much softer lighter texture and she put a meringue on top.
Banana pudding was almost always served too.
For Christmas my mother always made jam cake, with a caramel like icing.
We used to make a lot of candy around Thanksgiving and Christmas chocolate fudge, chewy caramel, pull candy
It was my jobs to wrap the caramel candy, and to get the pull candy started because I could tolerate working with it sooner while it was still fairly hot.
I keep thinking I want to try to make some of those candy recipes. I helped with it but never did any of the preparation or cooking.
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