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Epicurean Kentuckian: Food items like old days

By Linda Marcum Waggener,
Aunt Almedia's biscuit fan


Two reads about food on Columbia Magazine this weekend motivated me to share this note in case you missed them.

In Mike Watson's story, Turkey raising was once Big Business in Adair, it fascinated me that our Thanksgiving menu has changed little in over a hundred years. The Hancock Hotel menu listed many of those most familiar dishes that will grace our family tables this week. The ones I'm not sure of are 'black cake' and 'chicken and nut salad.' If anyone has either of those recipes, it would be appreciated.

The other food item was in Carol Perkins' visit to Carol's Kitchen. It felt like a visit in Aunt Almedia's kitchen when she was in her 70s and I was among her fans, asking her to share the recipe for her perfect angel-cloud biscuits.

She never did write down the recipe and after watching Brenda Gantt's biscuit making on YouTube I understand why. It's more technique than ingredients and the only way Aunt Almedia could have given me the recipe would have been to pose my hands right there in her big wooden bowl of flour and milk, with her beautiful hands guiding mine - it's an art and the Gantt video Carol discovered shows why!

Here's wishing you a joyous Thanksgiving week and many good eats!




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