tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70610383462669414832024-03-12T23:11:27.015-07:00Pickles and PetuniasJust two sisters sharing
simple pleasures...
old fashioned ways...
country cooking...
yada,yada,yada.
Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-56397227410925231442016-03-01T13:18:00.001-08:002016-03-01T13:18:38.473-08:00This Just In<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are covered in white stuff once again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">South Dakota snow can drop </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">down upon us right </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">up into April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When april rains should </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">be the norm, we can get</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a foot of snow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at this time of the season</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I prefer to keep my nose</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">inside and just make art</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or at least try to </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">keep up with my sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and make </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">artsy things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she came up with these</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">little twisted bundles of pure sweetness...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She's calling them South Dakota Rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(yes, but what about the 5 inches </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of snow outside you say?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess she's thinking SPRING,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and RAIN</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like a bowl of Easter Eggs...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from my Twisted Sister...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">"South Dakota Rain"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to make bracelets, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">necklaces,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">decorate almost anything,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or just leave in a bowl as eye candy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy March!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pickles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>SD Rain now available on our website</b></i></span></div>
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1 spool = 1 yard = $3.00 US</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.prairiepreservationist.com/">www.PrairiePreservationist.com</a></span></div>
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Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-13032906365124626312015-07-04T16:19:00.002-07:002015-07-04T16:19:41.989-07:00fresh cobbler<div align="center">
There is nothing better than farm fresh...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Henny Penny!</span></div>
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Do you have two cups of fresh blackberries?</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(You can also use frozen.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Blackberry Cobbler</strong></span></div>
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(from the Pioneer Woman)</div>
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Ingredients:</div>
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1 stick butter</div>
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1 1/4 cup sugar</div>
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1 cup self-rising flour</div>
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1 cup milk</div>
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2 cups blackberries (fresh or frozen)</div>
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Preparation:</div>
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Melt butter in a microwavable dish. Pour 1 cup of sugar and flour into a mixing bowl, whisking in milk. Mix well. Then, pour in melted butter and whisk it all well together. Butter a baking dish.</div>
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Now rinse and pat dry the blackberries. Pour the batter into the buttered baking dish. Sprinkle blackberries over the top of the batter, distributing evenly. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar over the top.</div>
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Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until golden and bubbly. If you desire, sprinkle an additional teaspoon of sugar over the cobbler 10 minutes before it's done.</div>
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If you don't have self-rising flour you can make your own...</div>
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1 cup all-purpose flour</div>
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1 1/2 tsp. baking powder</div>
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1/2 tsp. salt.</div>
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Yes! that easy. Do you have one of grandma's old enamel pans like the one I used?</div>
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Everything tastes better out of grandma's pans.</div>
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~petunia</div>
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-21082361642046086762015-06-25T19:43:00.001-07:002015-06-25T19:43:44.298-07:00Pickles and Petunias: Camp Cook<a href="http://picklesandpetunias.blogspot.com/2015/06/camp-cook.html?spref=bl">Pickles and Petunias: Camp Cook</a>: My culinary skills are nil... my mother still tries to get me to sit down and look at cookbooks with her but I would rather ...Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-8233928614538685472015-06-25T09:40:00.000-07:002015-06-25T09:40:31.363-07:00Camp Cook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My culinary skills are nil...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my mother still tries to get me to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sit down and look at cookbooks with her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I would rather be drug from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, that said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do find it interesting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when I come across someone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Because I DO Love to EAT!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and that's just what I ran into</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at the GannValley Celebration...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Patrick and his World Famous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">CHUCKWAGON</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have no idea how he did it </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or why he did it </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or how long it took him to do it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but this guy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and it was about the purdiest thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this cowgirl's seen in a coon's age!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I know, I just start thinking that way</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As far as I could tell...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I clearly did not ask enough questions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was too busy sampling the food!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim and his wife Susan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a way of life right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They knew just about everything</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">about cooking on a campfire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and could <i>purdy darn </i>accurately</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">from their clothes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Y'all Have a Kindly Day Now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">P.S. Here's a link I found on the web</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when I googled Jim Patrick </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">click <a href="http://cowboyandchuckwagoncooking.blogspot.com/2010/08/he-paid-your-fees-chuck-wagon-cook-off.html">HERE</a></span></div>
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Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-68142606545578230062015-06-18T10:45:00.000-07:002015-06-18T10:45:14.690-07:00In the kitchen with Herb<div align="center">
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she never shares many.</div>
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I planted a container of herbs to enjoy all summer long</div>
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Oh my! My little herb garden has really taken off.</div>
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There is seven different herbs crammed in that little space,</div>
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I put basil in yesterdays Italian pasta salad.</div>
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Today I will put a few chives in my potato salad for our supper tonight.</div>
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-15286618909844222392014-08-24T07:00:00.000-07:002014-08-24T07:00:03.828-07:00A Passion For Pickles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-73883332909142849912013-08-30T06:00:00.000-07:002013-08-30T06:00:05.276-07:00What Would Grandma Bertha Say?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">OOOFTA!!</span></div>
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I refer to her as the pickles of this blog,</div>
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Didn't all grandma's have one or two of these beauties in their kitchen?</div>
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This was a lot of crocheting for a touch-me-not.</div>
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I learned to crochet in the 1970's...</div>
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remember when those little granny square vests were so popular?</div>
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Well, that is why I taught myself to crochet.</div>
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Then in the 80's doilies were all the rage...again.</div>
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Even the backs of these hot pad holders are pretty...</div>
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-30922865419820982142013-04-13T09:33:00.000-07:002013-04-13T09:33:17.465-07:00Klosed Krotch<div style="text-align: center;">
June, 1913</div>
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I don't have a clue what pa is doing here?</div>
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And why is he wearing only his union suit to do it?</div>
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This ad from 1936 made me laugh.</div>
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It seems men have always been helpless.</div>
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still living at home.</div>
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If you used a wringer washer like this in your younger days</div>
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let me tell you about it.</div>
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You filled this machine with numerous buckets of hot water from the kitchen sink,</div>
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then you filled a rinse tub sitting beside this with cold water.</div>
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water for all your washing. Well, that's how my sister and I did it</div>
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when Mom wasn't around to monitor and make us change the water.</div>
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When you thought your first load was clean enough, no timers on this...</div>
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you ran every item through the wringer at the top of the washer, and into the rinse tub.</div>
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without a trip to the doctor.</div>
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There is no agitator or movement in the rinse tub,</div>
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just you with your hands in the icy water.</div>
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Once the clothes are fairly soap free, the wringer swings around</div>
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and you put the clothes through it again and into your clothes basket.</div>
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Yes, this is why they used to call it Wash Day...</div>
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It took all day!</div>
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into buckets and hauled out.</div>
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All our clothes were hung out on the clothesline,</div>
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We hung wash outside in all weather.</div>
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There is nothing that smells or feels better than line-dried wash.</div>
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-76134713883056730822013-02-06T12:09:00.001-08:002013-02-06T12:09:52.466-08:00kale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Sister Pickles and I are not doing a very good job of blogging here.</div>
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It's all her fault of course.</div>
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She has such a great blog "Sall's Country Life"</div>
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that it puts the pressure on me to step it up a bit here.</div>
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I found a Super Bowl of soup to share with you.</div>
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It has kale in it!</div>
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And Italian sausage and bacon and cream and...</div>
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It has to be good with ingredients like these right?</div>
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1 lb Italian sausage</div>
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2 large potatoes, cubed</div>
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1 large onion, chopped</div>
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2 garlic cloves, minced</div>
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2 cups kale</div>
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So Good!</div>
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I served this super bowl of soup for Super Bowl.</div>
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Okay pickles...you're up next.</div>
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What's on your Christmas list this year?</div>
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Do you see anything from this 1956 ad that you would like?</div>
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I would love that hot and heavy iron for 14.95.</div>
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You can still buy an iron for that price but it won't be hot and it won't be heavy.</div>
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Grandma Jessie would like a chenille spread.</div>
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She gets one every year because I have every one of them in my basement</div>
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waiting to be sewn into a project, like the back of a baby quilt.</div>
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My brother Stephen would ask for that freight train...</div>
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Years later I remember grandpa taking him on a train ride.</div>
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I really wanted to go too.</div>
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My brother David would take that super dart gun...</div>
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Mom would enjoy that new blanket in a mist green color.</div>
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Sister Rhonda would probably ask for those roller skates.</div>
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Remember owning a pair of those? Talk about fun.</div>
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And that sled would be perfect for pulling my little sister Lisa around on.</div>
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We will be extra careful as we take her to highest hill in town</div>
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Trying to be good must have counted with Santa</div>
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barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741445989870720136noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-73226751723964665342012-11-11T09:10:00.000-08:002012-11-11T09:10:13.762-08:00my soup kitchen<div align="center">
The first thing I must do here is write a disclaimer...</div>
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I am in no way knocking Campbell's Soup.</div>
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Cream of mushroom, chicken noodle, bean and bacon,</div>
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vegetable and tomato!</div>
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And when you are sick...Campbell's consomme soup tastes so good.</div>
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find all the tomato soup recipes I can and begin making them</div>
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until I find the best one.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I did this one summer with baked beans until Mr. b said</span></div>
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This is my first place winner for homemade tomato soup...</div>
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Saute onions in butter until transparent.</div>
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Sift in the flour, stirring vigorously and constantly.</div>
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(This recipe can be stored in the freezer for up to 6 months.)</div>
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This recipe is a close second place winner...</div>
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Heat a large, deep pot over medium heat: add bacon and cook until barely crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove bacon and reserve: remove and discard all but 1 tablespoon of the drippings. Add garlic and cook, stirring, over medium heat, 1 minute. Add tomatoes and their juice, breaking up tomato pieces with your hands or a wooden spoon. Add broth, sugar and black pepper: bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes with cover ajar.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(I use my hand blender to cream my soups, they are inexpensive and easy to use.</span></div>
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Are you ready for all the little ghosts and goblins that will be knocking at your door later today?</div>
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Boy...nothing could stop my kids when they were young on Halloween night.</div>
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They were like two postmen...</div>
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<em>Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night</em></div>
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Our family has had some fun times over the years for Halloween...</div>
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we are a little bit like the Munsters and the Adams family.</div>
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Halloween night usually means homemade soup at our house.</div>
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We get a few bites between monsters knocking at our door.</div>
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Tonight I'm serving it with beer bread.</div>
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Have you ever had Tastefully Simple's beer bread?</div>
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It's delicious and too expensive $.</div>
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I like cooking with beer and prefer the taste of the dark ones in my recipes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were given a big box </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of Mississippi Sweet Potatoes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sweet couple </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that brought them for us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">said, "Y'all were so kind to us </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for letting us hunt on your land last year,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we brought you some of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the best sweet potatoes in the world!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So last night we had</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have never fixed them before,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so I had to do a little looking around</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for different recipes first....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(don't you love the <a href="http://www.nanamoonshop.com/2010/08/heres-whats-cookin.html">old recipe card</a> I found?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was lucky enough to come across</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this card on <a href="http://www.nanamoonshop.com/2010/08/heres-whats-cookin.html">Nana Moon Shop blog</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(thanks Danylle!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can download it free from her site</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I downloaded her recipe card then</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">( and this is why it takes me all day to cook supper)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">after several blog land distractions...</span></div>
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Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-56958057377883027972012-10-10T10:31:00.001-07:002012-10-12T10:19:45.065-07:00chilly weather<div align="center">
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Mom always made hers in a large cast iron kettle on the stove.</div>
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No recipe needed for chili is there?</div>
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ground beef</div>
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lots of onions and peppers</div>
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we like celery in ours (the way mom made it)</div>
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chili beans and black beans</div>
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chili seasoning</div>
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celery salt</div>
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salt and pepper</div>
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and here's my secret...a little sugar</div>
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Mother used kidney beans...</div>
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I don't think they had the assortment of beans then like we have now?</div>
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My sister adds potatoes to hers...</div>
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that is just so wrong!</div>
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My Mr. likes his<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">HOT...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I have to hide the chili powder!</span></div>
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never add water.</div>
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And if you need a few extra calories...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When did I sign up for such a crazy life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Could somebody please pull my file</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and find the form I signed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"you are hereby informed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if you are up for it </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and write my dear sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(just like the old days)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your card is in the mail, Sis!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, </span></div>
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that Mildred is such a snoop you know.</div>
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Only my favorite recipe for coffee cake with the freshest ingredients will do for this group.</div>
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Betty will be trying to get a look at my recipe but she isn't going to get it! </div>
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(It's 1937...she's not likely to find it here on our blog is she?)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and this wonderful cool weather </span></div>
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When my grandmother needed a break from her daily chores she would sit down in her big wooden rocker and do her stitching, which usually meant mending shirts or darning socks. But it was when she was doing embroidery that got my attention. I loved all the pretty colored threads and the tiny stitches she was making.</div>
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It was this grandmother, who had the patience of Job, that taught my sister and I how to cross stitch on flour sack towels.</div>
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Up until 1950, food items such as flour, sugar, cornmeal, and chicken feed were packaged in tightly woven 50-100 pound cotton sacks. During the depression, between 1929 and the late 1930's, everything was hard to come by. Frugal housewives would re-use these cotton sacks and make them into clothing, toys, quilts, curtains, pillowcases, and of course, dish towels.</div>
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In the 1950's flour companies began using a cheaper method of packaging, paper sacks, and the re-use of flour sack towels went by the wayside.</div>
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I refuse to use a kitchen towel without something pretty stitched on it...</div>
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This is Mrs. Derby...people still talk about the wonderful pies she made </div>
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As a girl we did our baking on Saturdays...</div>
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after our housecleaning was done.</div>
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It was quite a commotion with three of us,</div>
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my sister Rhonda, mother and myself,</div>
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because I'm sharing <em>Lila's Zucchine Bread</em> today</div>
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<strong>Lila's Zucchine Bread</strong></div>
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Mix till fluffy:</div>
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3 eggs</div>
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1 cup brown sugar</div>
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1 tsp vanilla</div>
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2 c. grated zucchini</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was my dad's sister, Verola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She married a hard-working pig farmer, Roland...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My dad always felt a little sorry </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and his life of raising 5 <b>wild</b> children!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">gallon size country jar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5 cents a slice....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">maybe I can save up enough to buy a pig!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a sweet day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lisa</span></div>
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Lisa Sall - Sall's Country Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09729015228245019482noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061038346266941483.post-87816175763270667862012-08-31T10:13:00.000-07:002012-08-31T10:13:14.139-07:00peach pie<div align="center">
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Our family has been making the same peach pie as long as I can remember...<br />
it's the only recipe I've ever used to make peach pie.</div>
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Yes, it's that good!</div>
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Did you know that when mother rolled up her sleeves and put on her apron in August of 1956 to make peach pie she only paid $1.99 for a lug of California peaches and sugar was 79c for 10 lbs.</div>
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And she definitely did not buy her cream for this pie at the grocery store...</div>
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she bought it from the milkman who delivered right to her doorstep every day.</div>
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And at one time our father was the milkman...</div>
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(but more on that in another post).</div>
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This pie calls for a bottom crust only...</div>
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do you have a favorite go-to pie crust recipe you use?</div>
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Or a favorite bowl and rolling pin like I do?</div>
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<strong>Mother's Peach Pie</strong></div>
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4-5 peaches</div>
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3/4 cup sweet cream</div>
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3/4 cup sugar (1 cup if peaches are sour)</div>
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3 rounded tbsp flour</div>
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1/4 tsp nutmeg</div>
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dash of salt</div>
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Pour this mixture over peaches in a slightly done pie crust.</div>
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Bake at 375 degrees for one hour.</div>
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enjoy...b</div>
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