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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Recipes from Ollie J -- Pumpkin Biscuits

Here's another example of Grandma Ollie J clipping a recipe from the paper and taping it to a recipe card. I have to say, it's a lot of work to get 1 cup of real mashed pumpkin, especially out of season. I, therefore, will be using Libby's canned pumpkin.

Pumpkin Biscuits

Submitted by Mrs. Donald Grady Hall, Rt. 1, Siloon, N.C.

3 cups self-rising flour
1 tablespoon shortening
4 tablespoon brown sugar
1 cup cooked mashed pumpkin (1 cup canned Libby's)

Mix the flour and cut in the shortening. Stir in sugar and pumpkin and mix well. Make up like bread and cut into biscuits. Place on greased baking sheet and bake at 425 (in a preheated oven) degrees for 20 minutes.


At first, I had no idea what "make up like bread" meant. It wasn't until I was trying to mix it up that I realized what this meant. It's not like cookie dough that comes together easily; you have to get your hand in the bowl to mix in all the flour and to knead it together.

I made mini biscuits and watched the cooking time -- it still ended up being about 20 minutes. I made the first batch as above. The remaining batches I "gourmeted" up with demerara sugar.


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