Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Death of the biscuit..
I don't know how it come about..seems like everything was fine and then one day something happened and we got store bought biscuits from Hines Supermaket in South Hill. Nobody really liked em that much but Grandma was gettin older and it was quite a bit easier on her. Now she didn't have to git up at 4 Am everyday...so we all made out like they was OK and really won't that much difference anyway..but it was like a death in the family almost. Lessen you ever had a homemade biscuit fresh from a wood stove, drippin in fresh churned butter with a slice of home grown mater n a big pattie of hot sausage laying on it I don't reckon it matters....If you ever took fried chicken off the bone and put it in a biscuit and drizzled honey on it though then you know it does. Fatback don't look nor taste right on nothing but a country kitchen biscuit. Store bought biscuits was sticky n chewy and put a sausage pattie o some crisped up mddlin meat in one and they just looked embarrassed to be sittin in that little thing. Store biscuits just never browned up right...it was like puttin lipstick on a pig...it might look good but still.....Grandma would fix real biscuits on the weekend, sometimes Saturday, sometimes Sunday and it was like eatin one for the first time, I loved to mix crunchy peanut butter, Kings syrup, and real butter together and sop it with a biscuit...ain't no store biscuit ever made could sop that mixture and do it a proper job.....
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Kings syrup! Now, you can't find that in just any grocery store, anymore. And Karo just doesn't do the same job for me!
ReplyDeleteIt's blog reading time for me...something I really look forward to doing every weekend.
ReplyDeleteJimmy, my daddy always told me that I came from a long line of gravy soppers. I think my lineage included a bunch of biscuit eaters. I sure look like it, anyway. ;)
Bonnie, I can get you some Kings syrup! I think...at Farmer Foods!
ReplyDeleteFrankie, I'm a gravy sopper from way back..the best...soppin, when nobody's lookin' and they think you are washin' dishes. So good, a piece of heaven.
"Death of Biscuit"! It's a great story! Tricia
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