The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: RECIPES

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style> <br />For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Hour... BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.</a><br /><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-style: normal;"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbJRbgZiKH..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="231" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbJRbgZiKH..." width="213" /></a>I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";">For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on <a href="https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/p/th... Butterfly Hours</a> tab above.</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial";">This month's prompts are </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: roboto, arial;">pipe, playground, prayers, recipes, ribbon, rice, road, saltwater, sandwich, school, sewing.</i><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>RECIPES</b></span></span></span></span></em></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPsKenRR6e..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="997" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPsKenRR6e..." width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandma Dykes would rather<br /><i>cook</i> than be photographed. :)</td></tr></tbody></table><b>The recipes I most cherish from my childhood all come from Grandma Dykes:</b><br /><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>hoe cakes </b>– no one knows what this is, so we changed it to “corn bread” in mine and Charles' forthcoming <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Bet..." style="font-weight: normal;">DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD</a> (basically fine white corn meal -- and yes, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-Water-..." style="font-weight: normal;">brand</a> matters! -- mixed with hot water a bit of salt then fried in in iron skillet)<br /><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>butternut cake</b> – Grandma would wrap this cake in aluminum foil, freeze it, and send it to our family through the mail.<br /><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>sour cream cake</b> – I featured this recipe in LEAVING GEE'S BEND!<br /><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>chocolate pie</b> – I can remember Grandma stirring the chocolate on the stove, and how the smell would fill her small pine kitchen...<br /><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>Coca-cola cake</b> – this is comfort food for me! I love how you cook and pour the icing over the top of the cake.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>Some recipes I cherish from my mother-in-law Bobbie Latham:</b></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><b>cornbread</b>– gold, I tell you, gold! (recipe below)<br /><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>chicken and dressing</b> – I'd never had dressing I liked until I had my first holiday with the Lathams back in 1990. The key is the cornbread, which is why I'm sharing it.<br /><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b>cranberry salad </b>– I still make this, even though none of my guys eat it. :)</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></div><div>When we do scrapbook weekends, my mom always brings her famous <b style="font-style: normal;">ambrosia</b> – heavy on the grapefruit, as she is and always will be a Florida citrus grove girl. I love it! (Mama, if you're reading this: <i>Happy birthday!!!</i>)<br /><div style="font-style: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IY6gzCZNUG..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1163" height="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IY6gzCZNUG..." width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Another great thing to do with grapefruit: cut in half, sprinkle with brown sugar, put in the oven and broil until the sugar gets melty.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">For other fruit and veggie recipes, please see the back matter in my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Deliciou... DELICIOUS</a>. :)</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">and now....</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bobbie’s Buttermilk Cornbread </b></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 c. Aunt Jemima buttermilk corn meal mix</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 c. buttermilk</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">¼ c. canola oil</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 egg</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style> </div></div>--> <div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heat oven to 415 degrees. Mix together above ingredients. Place 3 Tbsp. butter in large iron skillet. When it begins to brown, pour in cornbread mixture. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove cornbread from skillet - put on plate. Melt 1 Tbsp. butter in skillet. When it begins to brown, flip cornbread and put it back in skillet for 5 minutes.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enjoy!</span></div><br />