Sweet-Cream Corn Bread

Old-Time Hot Bread

Sweet Cream Corn Bread

Farm Journal Country Cook Book - 1959

Page 354

This is New England - johnnycake -
 Serve with plenty of butter

3/4 Cup of Yellow Cornmeal

1&1/4 Cup of Sifted Flour  (Unbleached)

1 Tablespoon Baking Powder

1 Teaspoon of Salt

2 Eggs beaten

1 Cup of Heavy Cream

Sift dry ingredients together,

Add Eggs and Cream

Beat vigorously until smooth.

Pour into 9" square pan.

Bake in hot oven (425*) about 30 minutes.

Makes  apx. 8 Servings.

(Bean Soup and Corn Bread make a perfect protein.)

Bean Soup

Bean Soup

Farm Journal Country Cook Book  -1959

Page 351

2  Cups of dried beans

6  Cups of Water -Boil 2 minutes, remove from heat
   let stand 1 hours.Simmer beans without draining,
   about 2hrs, adding more water if necessary.

1 Ham Bone (1&1/2lb Ham butt apx.) Simmer in water to cover.
Skim fat from broth and add tender beans.

Stir in:
Beans
1 Cup celery & leaves
1 Quart of canned tomatoes  (Home canned the best.)
3/4 Cup - Dices Potatoes
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon -  Pepper

Makes 10 Servings - Apx.

(Pep up with grated horse-radish)
(If there is no Kids at the table.)

Grandpa Chester Bell said they only ate Bean Soup and
Corn Bread all one winter.

2014 - New Years Resolution's:

2014  Resolution's:

1.  Lose pounds.

2.  Walk Daily.

3.  Eat less.

4.  Ask smart people to help solve the problems of Senior Centers,

Nursing Homes, and Assisted Facilities.  Goal of:   Excellent  food,  Very Clean Standards,

Honest, Transparent  Book-Keeping.  Kind-Hearted and  Well Trained Care-Givers.

Improve the Supervision.  Make new laws.  Make the rules clear.  Make it clear the

consequences of breaking the rules.  Make it clear the evidence needed to enforce the rules.

Post on the internet the above.  Make public that complaints must be in writing and an address

of where to mail the complaints or how to bring about a law suit.


5.  Ask smart people how to bring to justice public officials that arrange for cash/kick-backs.

Help understand current laws.  Help to make new laws for transparency.  Help create new

check and balances.

6.  Pray .

Poor and Poorer

Poor and Poorer

Dirt poor is when you have dirt floors.  Grandpa Chester Bell was from a big English family

from Canada.  They had dirt floors.  Grandpa was boarded out when he was about nine

because his parents were too poor to feed him.  He worked for room and board.

The little money he was paid  was sent to his parents to feed his Brothers and Sisters.

He told me that he worked in a factory once where they made hoops, lids and stays.

--Barrels.  He became a Chief Engineers on the Great Lakes.  Grandma taught him his

Figurin' so he could pass his test for Engineering.  Grandpa's nickname was,  "Happy".

Everyone liked to sail with Chester.  I asked him once what his secret was to always

bring everyone back alive.  He told me,  "The Chief has to respect the Captain and the

Captain has to respect the  Chief Engineer and they both have to respect the weather.

Grandpa sailed 9 Months a year.

Grandpa said he always  liked to work.

During the "Big Depression"  Mom said she was dressed better than most because

her  Mother, Bessie, sewed.

PANCAKES

Whole Wheat/Buttermilk Pancakes

Betty Crocker -1979

1 or 2  Eggs  (Beat until fluffy)

1 Cup Butter Milk ( or more)

2 Tablespoons  (butter flavored) Crisco, Oil, or  Butter

Mix

Add 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 Teaspoon of Baking Soda

Dash Salt. Cinnamon,  Nutmeg

Grease Frying pan or griddle.

Pour about 3-4 Tablespoon of batter onto hot pan.

Pan is hot enough if drops of water -when sprinkled on pan -

dance.

Pancake needs to be flipped when bubbles on top break.

Add any kind of fruit to batter.  Eg:  Apple, Banana, Blueberries ,  Dried fruit.

Add nuts:  Walnuts, Silvered Almonds, Pecans, etc.

Serve Hot with Real Butter, Real Maple Syrup, Jelly, Honey or Applesauce.

Serve with a kind heart.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

Keep love in your heart.

TODAY'S SERMON: FORGIVE.

FORGIVE:

1.  Human Error.

2.  Natural Disasters.

3.  "Acts of God".

4.  Stupidity.

5.  Ignorance.

6.  Insanity.

7.  Stupid Customs based on brain-washing.

8.   People that don't think;  Never learned KIND.

9.   People that never were taught right from wrong.

 10.  Right  Wing  Nuts.

"Life's Railway to Heaven"

"Life's Railroad to Heaven"
 (My Dad's  favorite song.)

M.L. Abbey
Charle Davis Tillman,  186l - 1943
Arr. by J. Jefferson Cleland, 1937
and Verolga Nix, 1933

1.                                                                      

Life is like a mountain railroad.                          
With an engineer that's brave:                              
We must make the run successful                        
from the cradle to the grave;                                
Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels,                
Never falter, never quail;                                      
                                                                 
Keep your hand upon the throttle,                        
And your eye upon the rail.                                    

Refrain                                                                  

Blessed Savior,
Thou wilt guide us,
Till we reach that blissful shore.
Where the angels wait to join us
In Thy praise for-ever-more.

2.                                                                                                                                    
                                                                           
You will roll up grades of trial,                            
You will cross the bridge of strife;                      
See that Christ is your conductor                          
On the this light-ning train of life                          
Always mindful of obstruction.                            
Do your duty never fail:

Keep your hand upon the throttle,                    
And your eye upon the rail.                                

Refrain                                                                  (Verse 3, 4)  

Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013

Nelson Mandela --Lead the South Africans to end apartheid (the separation of the native Blacks and Dutch whites).  He was jailed for 27 years.  He was brilliant and educated.  He had a huge capacity
to forgive.  He will go down in History as one of the greatest men that ever lived.  The good people
around the world mourn his death and pay their respects.  Our Hero's and  Saints walk among us.
God Bless Nelson Mandela , family, and believers in equality and human rights
Nelson Mandala's definition of a Saint is "a Sinner that keeps on trying"