Table Manners
Kay West will sign copies of her new book, Around the Opry Table: A Feast of Recipes and Stories from the Grand Ole Opry, tonight at 6 p.m. at Davis-Kidd Booksellers. Kay promises to have snacks on hand from the book's many star-studded recipes. If you're lucky, maybe you'll get some of Alan Jackson's pimiento cheese.
For a fun diversion, turn to page 101 of Around the Opry Table and try to figure out what Scripture Cake is. Here are the ingredients for Johnny Cash's mother's version of the cryptic recipe:
Judges 5:25 last clause, ݠcup
I Samuel 14:25, 2 teaspoons
Jeremiah 17:11, 6 separated
I Kings 4:22, 1 ݠcups
Amos 4:5, 2 teaspoons
II Chronicles 9:9 to taste
Leviticus 2:13, pinch
Nahum 3:12, 2 cups
I Samuel 30:12, 2 cups
Numbers 17:8, 2 cups
Hint: This site might help. (It's not every day you get a guide to scripture on Bites.)
Comments
Kay did a great job with this: I had to put the book aside or I'd never get any work done. The thing I like most, so far, is that the recipes sound like things these folks might actually cook. I can practically taste my childhood just reading this.
Posted 10/30/2007 at 03:15:46 PMCan't wait to try Kitty Wells' Chicken Croquettes. Sounds like pure Southern comfort (food).
There's a great episode in which Uncle Dave Macon asks Roy Acuff (then a youngster) to carry a country ham across country for him in case he couldn't find ham in California.
Posted 10/30/2007 at 03:31:43 PMMormons?
Posted 10/30/2007 at 03:47:22 PMI know relocated Southerners who do the same thing with Martha White cornbread mix.
Posted 10/30/2007 at 05:10:26 PMAlso, if anyone checking out this thread is at Davis-Kidd tonight, please say hello.
Posted 10/30/2007 at 05:15:23 PMMy Cake Doctor of Theology book has that recipe, but it says you can get away with using half the pottage. Also, it suggests a low-cal version replacing the frankincense with applesauce.
Posted 11/01/2007 at 05:21:45 PM