Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...STAR CALLED WORMWOOD (250 pp ) - Martha Bacon- Random House...
...paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet-talkin' voice admit that they listen anyhow...
Early on Sunday morning, he stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
Hook, Line & Sinker. In San Francisco Bay, novice Angler Mrs. Woodward Melone innocently followed her husband's mischievous advice, caught two sharks by baiting her hook with bacon, tomato, and geranium...