One of the quirks of journalscape that I really like is that the main page displays all of the entries for an entire month. The downside is that it was nagging at me all day that even though it’s now October (my favorite month), the blog will still displaying September stuff until I post something new. Yes, it’s a sickness. As it happened though, we had a busy day doing stuff around the house, and I don’t have anything to say.
So I will share with you the recipe I made tonight for our World Communion Potluck tomorrow. Our church is blessed with a rather diverse membership, with a large international population, and lots of people who have lived abroad and/or traveled extensively. Of course most of you know I am from the nation of Texas, so here is a recipe from the homeland… Hey, I wonder if they’d let me carry the lone star flag during the processional of flags at the beginning…
Hart Stilwell’s Baked Beans
2 pounds cooked navy beans or other white beans
1 1/2 cups tomato juice
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
3/4 c dark brown sugar (reduce if you don’t have a Texas-sized sweet tooth)
3/4 c strong black coffee
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1/2 c ketchup
1/2 c bourbon
4 slices slab bacon, chopped
1 carrot, grated fine
2 T unsulphured dark molasses
2 T dry mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Pour the ingredients into a baking dish. Bake the beans, uncovered, about 1 1/2 hours, or until they have thickened and cooked down, with a “skin” just beginning to form on the top of the beans.
The beans reheat well and keep for several days.
This is from the wonderful Texas Home Cooking cookbook, which has the best recipe for fruitcake I’ve ever seen:
- 1 telephone
1 credit cardCall the Collin Street Bakery and order their Original Deluxe…
My first job was for Baskin-Robbins. One of the fun things I got to do was write on cakes with frosting. Someone came in one day and wanted “Bon Appetit” written on a cake. Nobody in the store was 100% sure how to spell it though, so I suggested Good Eatin’! The customer was pleased. You can get away with that in Texas.
So, good eatin’, y’all. And don’t let me catch you puttin’ that thar apostrophe in the wrong place. It’s Y-Apostrophe-A-L-L, podnah.
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From one gal who knows how to spell y’all to another–that’s the best fruitcake recipe ever!
And let it be known that “y’all’s” is a legit word here in Texas, as in “The party at y’all’s house was fun!”
October is my favorite month too. Too darn bad that in Texas it doesn’t really feel like October should, though!
It’s 92 degrees now. Ick!
Fruitcake? Shiver.
But the beans recipe is downright enticing–coffee? for real?
On World Communion Sunday we have our annual multicultural lunch. Everyone comes with food from their native land (we have 30 plus nations). I brought country ham from Georgia — many had no idea what it was
We’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of our church next weekend. Everyone is supposed to bring a covered dish “from your heritage”.
I was debating what to bring (they’ve all had the Texas Chocolate Sheetcake a zillion times from me) and now I know! Stilwell’s Baked Beans it is, y’all!
Many thanks, reverend mother.
We had a long riff on the necessity of a second person plural personal pronoun - namely, y’all - in Koine Greek class the other night. It’s a well-accepted term of art around here, as you know.
The beans sound fabulous…I think I’ll make them for the next church potluck, our congregational meeting in November. The inevitable results of them will mean that the congregational meeting will be quite efficient indeed!
oooh this sounds so lovely. but coffee! are you sure? I mean are you really sure?
I’ve invited a group of youngsters over for lunch after church next Sunday — not potluck I’ll feed them. IF I did this what would I serve with it?
oh and what’s slab bacon. Is it like a piece of cooked ham. And how much would 4 slices weigh … about.
please
Oh, Lorna! I am all about bacon - slab bacon is the stuff you buy from the butcher and he wraps it in the white paper with the little piece of tape and it is sooo darn good.
Well, at least that’s what it was when I was a kid. Its is sliced thicker than prepackaged bacon - maybe a quarter of an inch thick per slice. If you get the peppered kind, it comes with a generous amount of black pepper on top. Its great!
Happy October, reverendmother! (Desperately hoping the cold front promised for later this week will bring the temps down to the low 80’s.)
What fun! You’re from Texas too?!?! Absolutly on the y’all stuff - and CGAuntie is right - “y’all’s” is definately legit!
Here’s the question though - would you say “y’all” to an individual? I say no. I would never look at one person and say “yall comin’?” Would you?
Headless-in-GR: No, one never uses y’all in the singular. It is always, always plural, meaning referring to more than one person. Two is okay, three is better. Anything above that is optimal. I really don’t like it when people, misguidedly, try to “sound Texan” and say “y’all” when they mean “you.” Very uncouth.
I have to admit that I actually said to my second graders the other day something along the lines of, “I really like what you’re saying - y’all’s ideas are very creative.”