Some Thoughts on Mother’s

This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day and the memory of Mama usually brings up some very special thoughts.

To get an unofficial, cross-section poll of the community, I perused the phone book for women with the first name Betty. Why not?

The question for the Bettys, what is a special memory of your mother? Apparently from the answers, food and mothers have a lot to do with each other.

Betty Jobe still makes a soup her mother made for her. The family calls it “granny soup” and it consists of some beef and all the leftover vegetables she saves during the month. All her children enjoy getting their dishes of “granny soup” if they cannot attend dinner that night.

Betty Watkins remembers her mothers cornmeal dumplings and turnip greens. She said her mother would make dumplings from cornmeal instead of flour and simmer them in the pot licker from the greens. She admits she can’t make them like Mama.

Betty Gearing of Shady Dale learned how to grow a garden and can vegetables from her mother and now she provides vegetables for her family and some of the neighbors.

Betty Lackey, one of six children, says her mother used to tell them they were like a tornado when they came in her quiet house from school, “ya’ll are busting down the door.” She also still makes her mothers recipe for meatloaf using ketchup instead of tomato sauce.

Betty Thurman said she and her sister inherited her mothers beautiful smile and also her baked chicken recipe. What made it so delicious, I asked. She said the sauce. I asked her if it was cream of mushroom soup? she whispered, “No, it’s cream of chicken.”

Betty Morgan says her mother was special in every way and did everything for me.

Happy Mothers Day!