From Y’all Magazine - The magazine of southern people
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The Apron Strings That Bind
By Ronda Rich
Y’ALL, August/September 2007, Volume 5, Number 5, page 32
The other day I flew into the kitchen and grabbed the Martha White flour, Crisco and buttermilk and set about making a quick batch of homemade biscuits.
Mama was ailing and she always says that nothing makes her feel better than my biscuits do. She says they’re the best biscuits she’s ever tasted. Says it must be my oven. I must have a perfect oven, she points out, asking, “How else can you explain it?”
As I prepared to stir up the dough for my perfect oven, I didn’t do something that most women don’t do these days – I didn’t put on an apron. I cut the shortening into the flour with my hands, then made out the biscuits by pinching off the dough, rolling once in my floured hand and then slapping it into the pan. This can make for a tiny bit of a mess – but any kind of dough making is messy – as flour flitters everywhere.
Whole wheat buttermilk pancakes 
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