Lugnasa Garlic Planting Moon
The harvest and preservation season continues apace. This morning I made a leek/tomato soup using 18 of our own leeks, two of our tomatoes and six of the ones we purchased yesterday at Green Barn, also locally grown. This afternoon I’ll make another four chicken-leek pot pies for freezing and tomorrow a batch of chicken noodle soup and at least one, if not two, sugar cream pies.
Sugar cream pies are a Hoosier tradition and one of my favorites. On a webpage devoted to the history of the sugar cream pie in Indiana it referred to the recipe as a desperation one, a recipe used when all the other stores had been used up. Could be. The recipes, though they vary a bit, all call for butter, cream and sugar. Some of them that’s the whole recipe. Finger stir–so as not to whip the cream–pop in the oven.
Desperation never tasted so good.
So we’re in August here in Andover, thinking of December and January. The house smells great. Kate’s making corn relish,
