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Newspaper
Hammond Sunday Star
Location
Hammond, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 2000
Page
14
A reflective piece about close rural ties where neighbors shared eggs and sugar, helped each other in hard times, hosted barn dances and weddings, and kept family news within a front porch radius. It contrasts old neighborhood cohesion with new subdivisions shrinking familiar bonds.
Betty Kennedy, resident at Alpha House Community Home, learns self sufficiency through cooking and budgeting while living with five other women in Hammond under Options Inc. She cooks mustards greens with bacon, corn bread, and lemon pepper chicken learned from her mother, plans for Telethon 2000, and keeps family support close as she works on chores, a janitorial job, and independent living skills.
A vintage home cookbook fragment lists Butter Lemon Pepper Chicken with lemon juice and oregano, baked with chicken breasts then carrots, eggs and milk desserts, greens simmered with bacon grease, cornbread bake, whipped cream pound cake, and a fruit salad with peach pie filling. Named items include butter, margarine, vanilla, and various baking ingredients alongside greens and fruit.
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