This piece was originally published on my regular series called My Little Town on Wednesday past. Through special arrangement with Ninkasi23 it is republished here, and I will try to be here for comments, but wish me well if I am not. The Woman has asked me to visit her as this is posted. The rest, except for the links, is verbatim.. Here we go!
Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a rural sort of place that did not particularly appreciate education, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.
In these days of prepared just about everything, for many people what I like to call "old timey" cooking is just a distant memory, and for many others not even that. Tuesday night I got the idea to write this because I plan, when The Little Girl goes to sleep, to show The Woman how to make chocolate syrup at home for a fraction of the cost of even the store brands.
It is easy, and the recipe can be increased to make as much as you want. After thinking about that, I sort of randomly selected a few other things that used to be made from scratch that rarely are any more, or that simple are no longer eaten much.
I think that this will be sort of fun, and I suspect that many of you reading will have some recipes in your memories' horde to share. Let us start with chocolate syrup.