This is one of the easiest recipes destined for the book and one of the nicest too. I really love it. But then, sweetcorn is one of my ultimate top three super-foods. 1 = Peanut Butter. 2 = Sweetcorn. 3 = and nothing really comes close to either of those. Maybe Heinz baked beans? Got...
Ah, the soothing power of Gone With the Wind. Always a tonic. I made Hattie’s Sweetcorn Pudding from Modern Screen magazine and as always it was darn good. Usually I make it in a shallow dish but this time I baked it in a soufflé dish and it turned out lovely and fluffy, but all...
“As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I’ll take roast chicken and dumplings.” Hell yeah Hattie! In the first of my monthly Silver Screen Suppers extravaganzas today we had a FEAST proposed by Hattie McDaniel in a 1941 edition of Modern Screen Magazine. Plantation Chicken with Dumplings Corn Bread Sweet Corn Pudding String Beans Cranberry...
“When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that mother forgot to teach me how to stop using them!” I know what Hattie means, I ate almost ALL of her sweetcorn pudding this evening even though big enough for 2. It is sooooooo delicious. I’ve...
“As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I’ll take roast chicken and dumplings.” I do have Hattie’s very own recipe for chicken and dumplings, but tonight it’s sweet corn pudding. It’s in the oven. As per tradition, to mourn the end of a relationship I have scheduled in a private screening of Gone With The...
