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Mother’s Day Cooking Hungry for some of Mama’s cooking? Mother’s Day evokes such a
supply my father’s co-workers with garden goodies plus berries and flood of memories: Special times with our mothers, their unforgettable whipping cream throughout the growing season. I’m sure it is a major sayings and remarks, and of course their cooking. My own mother’s reason I love farmer’s markets so much to this day. fried chicken celebrated again and again with the publication of “Miss One of my first projects in 4-H Club was poultry. Farm fresh eggs and Bonnie’s Fried Chicken” and her unique chicken fried biscuits in “Stirwhole milk are surely a special secret ingredient in most cooking esUps” followed by a center spread in “Ladies Home Journal.” pecially custards and puddings. They are even more appreciated now My husband’s mother also added to our family cadre of favorite rec- as we live in such a pudding in a box kind of world. Speaking of pudipes with her very particular version of “pimenna" cheese and home- ding, my mother-in-law’s Banana Pudding was an important recipe to made banana pudding. Both of these special women leave a legacy master when my husband and I married. It did not come from a box and of food traditions we celebrate when we crave the comfort of their had some specific ingredient and technique requirements she insisted cooking years after their passing. They both used the “Woman’s Home must be done with exact precision. What wife doesn’t want to impress Companion Cookbook” and Helen Corbit’s recipes for cooking up the Mother-in-Law and please their husband so I gave it the old college and 4-H Alumni try! memorable meals. Both women had an enormous influence on my cooking to this day. My organic gardening mother with her belief in fresh home-grown ingredients including the gifts of eggs and meats from the animals on our farm. The fruits of our labor included plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits from our small orchard and the quarter of an acre of strawberries and boysenberries I complained about having to pick at the time! (That was mostly because of the giant hornets who nested in numerous holes they made in the rich soil of that amazing berry patch.) “Old Bess” our Jersey milk cow supplied enough cream to top the berries and 36 | MAY 2021 | ENID MONTHLY
You will find Miss Bonnie’s Fried Chicken with her Chicken Fried Biscuits in Enid’s Junior Welfare League publication of “Stir-Ups”. Mim’s Banana Pudding Recipe with a few of her SPECIFIC instructions is not as intimidating as it may appear. Enjoying Miss Bonnie’s Fried Chicken or homemade Banana Pudding are wonderful ways for our family to travel down food memory lane as we celebrate Mother’s Day. Do write down your family favorites as these recipes are treasures you will continue to enjoy long after our Moms aren’t here to celebrate with us. Have a memorable Mother’s Day!
