Lee Gen. Robert E. Lees Favorite Dish

[Barrycdog]

Author:United Daughters of the Confederacy. California Division. Robert E. Lee Chapter, No. 278, Los Angeles

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[White Feather]

ummmmmmm-----meatloaf.

 

[donna]

A great find.

 

[White Feather]

Barrycdog whydo you do this to me? Now I want brown beans, cornbread, and cold buttermilk. All with lots of butter

 

[diane]

Lee really enjoyed eating! Another of his favorites was creamed turtle. They were all over his neck of the woods in Virginia.

 

[Billy Yank]

Barrycdog whydo you do this to me? Now I want brown beans, cornbread, and cold buttermilk. All with lots of butter

My Dad loved "cold buttermilk," too. I've tried and tried to acquire a taste for it, but it tastes absolutely horrible to me. Don't mind it in pancakes, though or as a pre-wash for fried chicken.

 

[diane]

My Dad loved "cold buttermilk," too. I've tried and tried to acquire a taste for it, but it tastes absolutely horrible to me. Don't mind it in pancakes, though or as a pre-wash for fried chicken.

Store bought buttermilk is awful...but it's all there is nowadays! The real buttermilk, like my uncle used to make, is so different you wonder why the store bought is even called buttermilk.

Buttermilk was another of Lee's favorite foods. One time a farmer brought in a bunch of produce and livestock, chickens and so on and a jug of buttermilk. Lee sent everything on to the wounded but took the butter milk into his tent and stuck the jug under his cot!

 

[White Feather]

ummmmm---fried chicken. When I was a kid we ate lots of beans--lots of beans and cornbread. My dad called beans over crumbled cornbread " An Arkansas Pudding."

 

[donna]

My Granny made the best buttermilk. I miss hers.

 

[Billy Yank]

ummmmm---fried chicken.

If I'm ever on Death Row, "fried chicken" will be my only request for a last meal.

 

[John Davison]

My Dad loved "cold buttermilk," too. I've tried and tried to acquire a taste for it, but it tastes absolutely horrible to me. Don't mind it in pancakes, though or as a pre-wash for fried chicken.

I guess buttermilk is one of things you you either love or hate. I can easily drink a quart of it on a hot day. Of course, there are different grades and tastes of buttermilk. Rich, thick and creamy with a dash of salt and pepper if that's not available, tall gin and tonic answers nicely.

 

[CSA Today]

My Granny made the best buttermilk. I miss hers.

Mine did too.

 

[Billy Yank]

Mine did too.

Here in Illinois we get it from cows.

 

[diane]

It does make one of life's richest little bits of happiness, though. Buttermilk pie!

 

[White Feather]

ummmmmmm--Buttermilk pie!! Buttermilk biscuits!!!! I have got to get home to dixie! (No offense to northern cooks)

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

It does make one of life's richest little bits of happiness, though. Buttermilk pie!

I have been known to almost eat an entire buttermilk pie at one sit'n.

 

[White Feather]

May I suggest a pot luck? Colonel Diane please bring two buttermilk pies; you see I get "silly" after my second glass of buttermilk--must be on my way. Thank you for the fun.

 

[diane]

I have been known to almost eat an entire buttermilk pie at one sit'n.

You've got one BIG sweet tooth! That is a really, really rich pie...but sooooo good!

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

You've got one BIG sweet tooth! That is a really, really rich pie...but sooooo good!

Your right, it's not habit . . . just a little self-indulgence a couple of times per year.

 

[Nathanb1]

Here in Illinois we get it from cows.