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Recipes from Martha Ruth Leonard
The Art of Cooking in Holly Springs
Marshall County Chapter of AARP

Pecan Crispies (Millie Rose)

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup margarine or butter
2-1/2 cups brown sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped pecans

2-1/2 cups sifted enriched flour
1/2 tsp. soda
2 well-beaten eggs

Thoroughly cream shortening, butter and sugar; add eggs and beat well. Sift dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture; add nuts. Drop from tsp. about 2 inches apart, onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in 350° oven 12-15 minutes. Makes 5 dozen.

Beef Vegetable Soup (John Dabney Brown)

1 large soup bone
extra beef fat
3 lbs. chuck roast, cut in bite-size pieces
3 large carrots, sliced
1 can whole tomatoes,chopped

1 cup cut okra
1 cup cream style corn
1 cup butter beans
46-oz. can tomato juice
2 large onions, chopped
5 ribs celery, chopped
salt, pepper and hot pepper

Place bone, meat, fat, onion, celery, okra and tomato juice in large pot. Add small amount of salt and pepper and enough water to completely cover. Cook slowly 3-4 hours; cool. Remove bone and fat. Let stand overnight and skim off fat. Use some broth to cook carrots and butter beans until tender. Add corn and cook until tender. Chop tomatoes. Combine all ingredients and cook slowly 30-40 minutes. Season salt, pepper and hot pepper to taste.

After nearly 140 years, monuments were erected in the Old Asbury Cemetery in Waterford, off Robert Ford Road, in memory of great-grandparents. Charlene and Doug McGill, Hugh and Chris Hatchett of Waterford, Jimmy Ash and Betty and Ray Huey all worked to clean the old cemetery out. The pioneer Ashes of Marshall County are buried there. They settled near Waterford in 1840.

Elton Bray showed Buck, owned by Bobby McAlexander, at the Cedar Oak Plantation Youth Field Trial. Logan Bailey was Bray’s scout. Bray and Buck received a trophy.

A nuclear protest group which is walking along the path of the “white train” will be passing through Holly Springs on Dec. 14. The group, called “On The Line” is made up of women who are walking from the Trident nuclear submarine base in Bangor, Wash., to Amarillo, Texas, which is the final assembly point for nuclear warheads.

Jan and Tommy Woods drove to Tulsa, Okla., to attend a Christmas opera performance at the Oral Roberts University. Their daughter, Jeana, who is a senior music major, sang the leading role in the production.

Road blocks have been set up in this area to intercept a 1950 green and white Oldsmobile in an attempt to capture some North Carolina prison escapees. The road block was set up at 12 noon on Wed., as the Olds was supposed to have turned down Old Hwy. 78 with the four escaped convicts.

Last Friday the Holly Hi band went to Greenwood to take part in the Delta Band Festival. They also marched in the parade. Tuesday, they go to New Albany for their Christmas parade. The band king and queen have been elected; they are Mike Smith and Bea Hasselman.


Thursday, Decemeber 10, 2009
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