End of ADS-L Digest - 19 Mar 1996 to 20 Mar 1996

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There are 13 messages totalling 347 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Oklahoma Red-Eye Gravy - (2)

 2. AHD 2nd edition

 3. your mail (3)

 4. Cobbler Recipe??? (2)

 5. Clabber ad infinitum

 6. May/Might : epistemics and tense

 7. may/might example from today's NY Times (2)

 8. may/might distinction



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Date:  Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:07:32 -0800

From:  "J.Russell King" <jrking[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: Oklahoma Red-Eye Gravy -



>>Mr. Joseph Jones' statement is almost exactly what I experienced

>>with red-eye gravy in Oklahoma, back in the 1930's. Fried country

>>ham first, them some water added to the meat-grease residue, and,

>>by golly!, red-eye gravy for those big baking-powder biscuits.



>>I always make red-eye gravy with left-over coffee rather than water.



The red-eye gravy that my mother made in Oklahoma in the 1960's and

70's was as described, with simply water (and perhaps a touch of

flour?) in the residue of a ham steak. I was surprised (or is it

astonished) some years later to find in "standard" Southern cookbooks

(the collections of the ladies' sewing circle of the Maranatha Baptist

Church and such) that a key ingredient was coffee. That didn't fit with

my experience. In recent years, on those rare occasions when I found

myself with a hankering for same, I've made it both Mom's way, with

water, and the official way, with coffee. And the fact is, it's hard to

tell much difference.



This is hardly a discussion of linguistics or American dialects, I

fear, so I apologize.