Monday, February 11, 2008

Deer Haven Manor

This blog will offer you our favorite recipes from Deer Haven Manor. We are a country family, in a country home, in a country town, with a country grocery store. No gourmet groceries are available here. Fancy ingredients must be purchased when visiting other towns or ordered through a catalog or via internet.

Our local restaurants are a fantastic place for gathering to learn all of the local news. (Some would constrew this to be gossip.) They are not places for lovely and inspiring dinners.

When we want a fine meal, we either cook it ourselves or go to a friend's home for dinner. The finest meals are served at the local churches for "dinner on the ground" during a revival or community singings. Every cook brings out her finest recipes for these occasions.

My favorite meals were served by my Aunt Kate whose invitation was always "Come have a bean". She loved to collect recipes, but rarely made any of them except for parties and teas. Her best recipes were the plain country cooking that she learned from my grandmother.

It is to this fabulous woman that this blog is lovingly dedicated, so

Come have a bean!
Ruth Ann

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