On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:03:01 AM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
> On 1/2/2013 11:52 AM, l not -l wrote:
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> > On 2-Jan-2013, jmcquown > wrote:
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> >> On 1/1/2013 10:45 PM, sf wrote:
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> >>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:11:41 -0500, jmcquown >
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> >>> wrote:
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> >>>> I still remember the first time I tasted cornbread. I was about 8
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> >>>> and
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> >>>> we were living in Virginia. Mom bought one of those mixes that
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> >>>> came
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> >>>> with a little tinfoil pre-fab "baking pan". I cannot remember the
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> >>>> brand. She was so proud she'd found a new instant thing. LOL "I'm
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> >>>> going to make cornbread!" I remember thinking it was sort of
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> >>>> cake-like.
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> >>>> I didn't taste *real* cornbread until many years later. I
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> >>>> prefer the
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> >>>> latter 
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> >>> I remember those pans, but the mix we had a pretty good coffee cake
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> >>> with streusel topping for us Northerners. I can't remember the
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> >>> brand
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> >>> either, but it was probably Betty Crocker.
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> >> Hmmm, seems to me she did buy a coffee cake mix like that, too. It's
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> >> probably what prompted her to try the cornbread mix.
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> >> Jill
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> > When my children (now adults) were young (late-70s, early-80s) they
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> > loved to make cakes for their grandparents. Betty Crocker had two lines
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> > of cakes that used those little foil-lined pans - Stir and Frost and
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> > Stir and Bake. They were perfect for children to dump, stir and bake.
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> > It was a great alternative to the Hasbro Easy Bake Oven.
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> What a fun memory! Our mother didn't want us in the kitchen. There was
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> no "Want to help me stir this?" or "Let's make this together!" stuff
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> going on. But I'm glad you have a nice memory of those mixes
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My mother never forbade me use her kitchen, but when I got my GED (at 16) I told her that I wanted to start paying room and board, and she was OK with that, but I also told her I could do my own laundry, but she wouldn't allow me to use her wasing machine. She said the thought I'd break it.
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> Jill
--Bryan