Nostalgia on ice: Cold, sugary tea is a sweet Southern tradition

wilmington star ^ | 13 June 2007 | Lisa Singhania

[HiTech RedNeck]

Maybe the cicadas ate them all up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not in Texasware?

[roamer_1]

Hi HiTech,

Sorry, I'm in Montana and I haven't a clue what Texasware is...

Would you care to enlighten me?

-Bruce

[HiTech RedNeck]

Texasware was a line of medium weight plastic dinnerware (tumblers and plates) that up through the eighties was manufactured in Dallas, Texas. The tumblers had a fine pebbled appearance.

[roamer_1]

Texasware was a line of medium weight plastic dinnerware (tumblers and plates)[...]

Ahhh! I think my wife may have some of that in a fine magenta/pink kinda' color... :D

But no, I will stick to the mason jar for my tea, thank you very much. :)

-Bruce

[Charles Martel]

In eastern Ontario sugar-bush country, we called cornbread “Johnny cakes” (I think they call it that in some northern states too).

Hmm, a remnant of the Confederacy, way up in Ontario. Interesting.

[roamer_1]

BTW, you are in my home state... How are those lovely cicadas this year? Been watching the WGN on-line cicada update for a few weeks...

-Bruce

[Rte66]

"This here's" what I call Texasware - we ate on these during my childhood, 'cept ours were enameled tin and they weren't these fancy Christmas design ones the cowboy store is sellin'.

[abigailsmybaby]

My mom grew up in the midwest too but always made sweet tea. I didn’t know anybody drank it any other way.

[B-Chan]

Tried it. Didn’t care for it. Ditto boba tea. I like Japanese teas the best, especially genmaicha. I also like English tea (P&G Tips Brand) served hot with milk, and sun tea (unsweetened).

[smug]

The idea of milk in tea has always made my stomach turn.

The idea of milk in any thing makes my stomach turn, cheese okay, ice cream okay, milk yuck.

[bamahead]

Oooooh.....So sorry for my blasphemy....try 2 quart instead :)

“The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!”
-Grandpa Simpson

[bamahead]

u should, when you get a chance, try the sweet tea at a franchise named McAlister’s. It’s to die for.....

Milo's hamburgers. Best franchise sweet tea around. So good they now sell it by the gallon in Alabama Supermarkets.

[Ditter]

Dewberries are tender and sweet without sugar, blackberries aren’t.

[gopheraj]

I always add a leveled off tablespoon of sugar in my cornbread. Does’t make it sweet but changes the flavor a little - better. I use buttermilk in all my cornbread recipes. Love dat but’milk.

[gopheraj]

Are you talking about whole wheat flour or just plain old regular white? I use white flour to hold it together otherwise when you go to slather on (real) butter it falls apart.

[gopheraj]

Sugar in cornbread - BAD

Marie Callenders corn bread......YUMMY

Ummmmmm,LOLL Some recipes I found had as much as 1/2 cup of sugar. You never know what is in the food you get at a restaurant.

Marie Callender's cornbread recipe (googled of course)

1 1/4 cups flour

3/4 cup cornmeal

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/3 cup sugar

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups whole milk

1/4 cup shortening

1 egg

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Combine all the dry ingredients in medium bowl. Add the milk, shortening, and egg and mix only until all the ingredients are well combined. Do not overmix. Pour the batter into a greased 8x8-inch pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until top is golden brown. Let cool slightly before slicing. Slice with sharp knife into 9 pieces. Serve warm with honey butter, if desired.

For the honey butter, use a mixer on high speed to whip the butter and honey together until smooth and fluffy.

[zeugma]

LOL. I’ll admit to being a geek. After doing the math, it seems that Grandpa Simpson’s car gets 10 mpg.

[Rte66]

Can you *buy* dewberries? I’ve only picked them myself, but have never seen any commercial “dewberries,” even at a roadside stand, labeled as such.

On the other hand, I’ve seen some blackberries at the grocery that I think are local dewberries. I can eat both (but not strawberries or raspberries), but sometimes blackberries cause a little bit of throat hives.

I worry more about dewberries picked by others just for eating or sharing - that may have been near poison ivy. Alhough, I feel certain BlueBell Homemade Vanilla is an antidote.

Love those berry cobblers!

[gopheraj]

No matter what brand, its always called a coke.

Yep.

Get me a coke.

What kind?

A Dr. Pepper (or Pepsi or MT dew etc)LOLL