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.

Monday, June 19, 2006

NECTAR FOR 90 DEGREES IN THE SHADE 1869 RECIPE

NECTAR FOR 90 DEGREES IN THE SHADE
1869 RECIPE

(c)Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks
by William Terrington, 1869

1/2 C. whisky
1 bottle soda water, chilled
Lemon ice
*composition not described
might be frozen lemonade in ice cube trays

Put a lemon ice in a soda water glass,
add one half gill of whisky and a bottle of iced soda water,
mix and serve.

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

OLD FASHIONED KENTUCKY APPALACHIAN MACARONI AND CHEESE RECIPE

OLD FASHIONED KENTUCKY APPALACHIAN
MACARONI AND CHEESE RECIPE

1 cup macaroni, cooked and drained
1 cup grated cheese (your favorite kind)
2/3 cup regular milk
2 eggs
1/4 t salt
topping:
2 Tbls grated cheese
1/4 cup soft bread crumbs

Alternate layers of macaroni and then cheese,
in a buttered baking dish.
Beat the eggs, add milk and the salt.
Pour over top macaroni layer.
Ready for the topping:
Sprinkle the top with remaining cheese combined with bread crumbs.

Bake in preheated 400 degree oven until well browned.

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