Out of the hundreds of songs she recorded, a couple of her favourites are: “Making Believe” and “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” What I appreciated about Kitty’s songs is I could always understand the words she sang - unlike so much of today’s songs with hard-to-decipher lyrics that prompt me to switch frequencies.Ĭombine and mix well first five ingredients in a double boiler. I used to spin a lot of Kitty’s 78s when I was a country music DJ with my own program on radio. In the cake section, recipes such as: Hot Milk Cake, Hummingbird Cake, Sock-It-To-Me Cake and Cinnamon-Buttermilk Coffee Cake are provided. They range from appetizers and beverages to salads and soups. She spent countless hours between musical engagements in her kitchen preparing her favourite dishes and many of those recipes are in her cookbook. Besides her traditional music, Kitty exemplified cooking and baking. It’s signed in dark-black ink on the inside front page: Sincerely Kitty Wells 3-12-91. If you were exposed to classic country music as I was, the name Kitty Wells will be familiar. Besides hundreds of recordings, she included a collection of down-home recipes in her “Queen of Country Music” cookbook and I have a copy. They rarely gave me a thumbs-up but I knew from the empty cake plates with very few crumbs remaining that my frosted cakes passed their taste test. I made umpteen cakes and lathered them heavily with Seven-Minute Frosting. My brothers were my cake-tasting testers. Yours truly was quite the baker at home when graduating from puberty into teen years. Has anyone among our readership anything to offer from their personal experience that might be beneficial to bees and apiarists in that connection? Cakes and country music
We’ve all heard of mites devastating bee populations. Thyme oil or mashed thyme leaves gently applied to bee stings are said to alleviate the pain. The flowers are said to contribute to an excellent honey product. Some beekeepers have successfully grown thyme plants near beehives as a food source. Thyme leaves can be made into a beneficial tea to treat coughs and upper respiratory complaints and thyme oil is made from a distillation process. Garden thyme is the source of thymol, an ingredient often used in dental hygiene products due to its antioxidant and antibacterial properties. Thyme gives a hearty flavour to poultry, meat and vegetarian soups, gravies, sauces and herbed vinegars. They start easily from seeds, and readily grow from root cuttings or softwood cuttings taken from upper stems. There are dozens of varieties, some of which are half-hardy perennials in Zone 3 with protection, and others that overwinter in Zone 4. Most thymes have similar growing requirements such as lots of sunshine and well-drained, almost gravelly soil. Plants are often available at garden centres that have a herb section. Take time to plant kitchen thyme in your gardenĮnglish thyme (thymus vulgaris) sometimes called French thyme is among the most popular and indispensable of herbs in the kitchen. If the soup didn’t work, thyme beer usually did the trick. There are numerous accounts of people making both soup and beer from thyme that was regarded as a cure for shyness. Highland Scots concocted a beverage from wild thyme to give them courage.
It was used during the French Revolution to garner success in any righteous cause. Throughout history thyme has also been associated as a symbol of fortitude and strength of mind in the face of pain and adversity. In Egypt, thyme oil was used in preparing the body. Branches of fresh thyme flowers were strewn over caskets and planted at burial sites. You may not know this but thyme has long been associated with burial practices going as far back as ancient Greece. It’s derived from Greek words meaning soul or spirit. We’ve all heard expressions such as “time waits for no man, stop wasting time, and a stitch in time saves nine.” Then there’s the plant genus name, thymus. I’m a regular hat wearer and feel totally comfortable with some form of head covering but know when to remove it at appropriate times, too. Welcome to all joining me on this Grainews page wherever you are.
When we see what we’ve discovered, in each woman, child and man,īorn of all we’ve done together, we are all Canadian.īefore proceeding further - it’s hat-tippin’ time. Red for freedom, white for beauty, maple leaf and endless sky, Will you work to build our country, proudly raise the flag on high,
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