BASIC KENTUCKY BOURBON SAUCE - RECIPE
1 cup granulated sugar
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon, or more, Bourbon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon white corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
In a sauce pan, mix all ingredients.
Bring to a boil for 1 minute.
Serve warm over Bread Puddings and other warm desserts.
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KENTUCKY HOPPIN' JOHN - RECIPE
2 cups fresh or frozen black-eyed peas
1/4 pound of bacon
2 small red pepper pods
2 Cups uncooked regular rice
salt
In stockpot cover peas with water.
Cover and simmer peas with bacon and peppers over
low heat for approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours (or until tender).
Add rice, cover and cook over low heat,
stirring frequently until rice is cooked.
*You may need add more water during cooking.
Salt to taste before serving.
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KENTUCKY NUT PIE - RECIPE
1 stick melted margarine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs, slightly
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)
3/4 cup chocolate chips
Mix together in order given.
Pour into unbaked 9 inch pie shell.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
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Our Kentucky Home and Gardens
From Our Kentucky Home and Garden to Yours. We will be sharing both new and old southern recipes, vegetable gardening and cooking information, how to articles, flower garden ideas, folklore and regional stories. We will also be sharing information from our garden expansion plans, our dreams of building a greenhouse and our experimental organic gardening projects. We hope you will be able to use some of our ideas and that we can help make your house... a home.