Southern Pecan Pie
3 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
1/3 cup melted butter
1 cup pecan halves or pieces
1 9-inch unbaked pie shell
Beat eggs thoroughly with sugar, dash salt, corn syrup and melted margarine. Add pecans. Pour into unbaked pastry shell. Bake in moderate (350) oven 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between outside and center of filling comes out clean. Cool.
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Dillard Family Cookbook
Since the first reunion in 1991, the Dillard Family Reunion has published 3 cookbooks. This latest may be the best yet. It not only has some wonderful recipes, but many stories of the Dillards and their adventures, antics and escapades. Many will make you chuckle or even laugh out loud.
"A Gathering of Tall Tales, Receipts and Three Songs from the Ozark Dillard Family" aptly names its contents. (Receipts is the old-fashioned word for recipes). The front has a wonderful photograph taken in front of the old family home with all the names of those in the photo.
176 pages long, the first 90 pages have many stories from the Dillard family. Also included are copies of letters and cards to and from the Dillards. Be sure to keep an eye out to the left margin for some of the stories we have reprinted from the cookbook. One of the stories, accompanied by the picture in the cookbook for proof, is retold below.
A Fishing Story
Millard J. Reeves
told to me by my Father, George W. Reeves (son of Harriet Dillard Reeves)
My fishing buddy, Bazze and I went fishing on the White River in Arkansas. It was a hot August day and the fish were not biting. We decided to go over to a large boulder in the river and go swimming. There were several large boulders about 5 feet under the water. After going under the water Bazze asked me if I heard a sound like a grunting hog. We decided that it could be a large catfish. We got back in the boat and untied the 30' anchor rope. I took one end of the rope and dove under the rock. After the third dive I found the catfish's head sticking out from under a cave formed by the boulder and the bank. I could see the mouth opening and taking in water. After surfacing a couple more times, Bazze and I decided to put the rope through the catfish's mouth and out the gills. Tying the rope seemed to agitate the fish and it began to thrash about. In doing so the fish's side thorns put a 3" gash in my forearm. Returning to the boat with the rope in my mouth, it was all we could handle to get the 63 lb. Monster into the boat.
This wonderful cookbook is for sale by the Dillard Family reunion for $6 ( sale!) plus shipping of $3.20 for Priority US mail or $2.25 book rate. you can contact us by email- rockyd@yellville.net or by mail Bonnie Dillard, 13736 Hwy. 14 So., Yellville, AR 72687. We can take credit cards through Pay Pal at http://www.paypal.com. You can sign up and send money by email to anyone.
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