AUNT AUNEAN'S NUT LOAF BREAD (hic)

The ingredients

The recipe

The dough

 

The finished product

 

Aunt Aunean...Madge's (V's mom) older sister.  Aunt Aunean was married to Uncle Alymer Hollis.  According to Vannie, she was a fabulous cook.  She and Uncle Alymer lived in Bernice in a big old house at the end of a dirt road.  It was two-story and had a wonderful banister that Vannie said that she loved to slide down.  Uncle Alymer had a dairy farm with lots of cows.  He and Aunt Aunean had a big garden with peas, corn, potatoes, okra, green beans, squash, watermelons, and more.

 

Vannie said that she never saw Aunt Aunean take a drink of  "spirits".  She was a devout Baptist.  Not the same for Uncle Alymer.  But as you see in this recipe, a cup of whiskey is one of the ingredients. 

 

So.....when Vannie decided she wanted to try this recipe out of the old Green Cookbook, she had to find the whiskey.  (Green was Aunean's and Madge's maiden name)  She went to Super One in Ruston and walked all over the store.  In Lafayette, the whiskey is right up front, next to the checkout.  Finally, she asked the checkout lady, and she said, "No honey, only beer and wine are in the grocery stores.  You'll have to go west on the service road on the south side of I20.  Devine's will be on your left.  They have a drive-thru."

 

So....V headed to Devine's, hoping no one she knew would see her drive up to the liquor store.  This was getting more and more complicated.  The checkout lady was right...Devine's had a drivethru.  She told the man at the window, "I'm making my Aunt Aunean's cake and the recipe calls for a cup of whiskey.  Can I only buy a cup?"  The man probably was saying to himself..."Sure lady, that's what they all say."  Anyway, he sold her a VERY small bottle.

 

As the little red hen would say..."Now, it's time to make the bread."  All the ingredients went in the mixing bowl...the dough was put in the pans...the mixing bowl was licked and licked and licked (hic).

 

I bet you a dollar to a donut, Aunt Aunean didn't have to go to all that trouble to find a cup of whiskey.  Uncle Alymer made sure of that.