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The harvest and preservation season continues apace. \u00a0This 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. \u00a0This 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.<\/p>\n
Sugar cream pies are a Hoosier tradition and one of my favorites. \u00a0On 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. \u00a0Could be. \u00a0The recipes, though they vary a bit, all call for butter, cream and sugar. \u00a0Some of them that’s the whole recipe. \u00a0Finger stir–so as not to whip the cream–pop in the oven.<\/p>\n
Desperation never tasted so good.<\/p>\n
So we’re in August here in Andover, thinking of December and January. \u00a0The house smells great. \u00a0Kate’s making corn relish,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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