After making 'play foods' with modeling clay.....next up...was Biscuits.....Still, a favorite 'thing to eat'......
Most of us have that 'most loved' food....usually, a version or replica of a
childhood memory......Mine is a plateful of thin, crunchy baking powder
biscuits, split...while hot....then spread with apple butter and 'filled' with a
scramble of eggs, red bell peppers, sliced scallions, diced herbs, 2 of three
kinds of grated cheeses, chopped cilantro and parsley, and fresh spinach &
shitake mushrooms...sauteed in herbed butter.........When I was five,
breakfasting with 5 cousins, 5 aunts and uncles, my grandparents and a couple of
their friends that usually stopped by on Sunday mornings for some of my
Grandmother's delicious cooking......I 'had' only one...and, usually, wished
that someone 'wouldn't show up' and I'd have 'another'....and that was still
problematic, since my ravenously hungry cousins were 'hawk-eyed' on the platter
of biscuits, also..... Since "EVERYONE' wanted the 'extra' biscuit, but were
taught to be polite...first offering this largesse to others, first......I was
likely to end up on what Southerners called 'the hind tit'.....watching some
'old person' snarf up the tasty treat.......A few times, I remember....after
everyone, out of 'good manners' had declined the 'extra' biscuit....Grandpa just
tossed it to his pitbull, Rex, who waited, patiently.....so 'undoglike'.....for
his reward for submissiveness.....Hey!....I'll 'lay on my belly' too and submit
to a tummy rub,...for my favorite morning food...and wag my tail......Once, I
recall, I got on 'all fours' and whined, by my grandfather's chair......but only
got some ridicule...and Rex, his paws wrapped around Grandpa's ankles....got the
biscuit! The "Moral" of this tale?"......Isn't it obvious?
The 'side dish' condiment was Blackstrap molasses.....which was my 'least favorite thing to eat...in the known Universe! My grandmother would 'cut' a piece of the bitterish-sweetish stuff to 'have' with biscuits!.....Aargh.....I'm so grateful for 'apple butter' or 'pear butter' or just 'cow butter'....although, in retrospect, I've discovered that molasses and sorghum are 'better for you'.....it certainly didn't 'taste that way'!.....Just give me a spoonful of Vidaylin and a side of Geritol....and NOT in a glass of clabbered milk, please! Is 'eating four of these biscuits sufficient compensation for my childhood's 'slights'? I DID put a 'slice' of blackstrap on one of the biscuits......eating it, first, then the other three, laden with apple butter, to 'get that taste out'.......In 'grade school' my class was driven 30 miles to Scottsboro, Al.where we were 'treated' to ...you guessed it......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_cdE8Q-Qtc .....Can I just 'stop by' Piggly-Wiggly (to get some apple butter), now?
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