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Article: The tale of a pail of Yankee biscuits.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Byline: John Gould
Grandson William writes from Virginia, asking how to bake biscuits in a pail, and I have responded gladly. Both our grandsons have defected to the enemy, and often write to have Yankeeisms explained in detail so their upcoming Rebel offspring may enjoy a certain culture otherwise lacking in a Dixie childhood.
Enjoying hot cream-tartar biscuits baked by an open fire at a woodland picnic is strictly Maine, and William advises me that he well recalls such during maple sugaring when he would come to the farm to visit.
Reflector ovens may be known otherwhere, but the Maine woods depended on them to feed the river drivers each ...