Originally Posted by
Belinda Williamson
My parents have never been big on Christmas. Gifts were most often functional rather than fun - with the exception of the year I got a chemistry set and a microscope. This year for Christmas my mother gave me about ten pounds of fresh sausage and a big bag of cracklins. My cousin and his wife grow their own pigs and make and sell the sausage, along with lots of other pork parts. The day that my parents went to pick up my Christmas gift my cousin and staff had made 700 pounds of sausage. They were already sold out of smoked sausage - dang it! I made cracklin cornbread last Wednesday night. Does it count that I had roasted carrots with it?
well Belinda, the cracklin cornbread tells me your a bona fide southern cook. I'm not sure what the roasted carrots qualifies you for? I guess if I knew what the rest of the menu was I could make an educated assessment. My dad used to process people's meat into sausage. They would bring in the meat, he would add the seasoning, run it through his grinder for them. That was good stuff also. People used to smoke hams, bacon and sausage in a smokehouse. I have to admit though that I found some of that stuff I saw questionable as far as human consumption.
You probably know Paula Dean huh?
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