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Fried Salt Pork With A Serving of Family History Recipe

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This recipe for Fried Salt Pork With A Serving of Family History is from THE HORNER FAMILY COOKBOOK The 75th Anniversary Edition, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cast iron skillet
1 lb. of salt pork
water
flour
Directions:
Directions:
Slice the salt pork into strips. Put them in the skillet and cover with water. Par boil the salt pork for a few minutes. Drain well. Dredge the slices in flour and fry until a golden brown. Use the drippings to make white flour gravy. Serve with hot biscuits.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
"I often like to imagine Mary Elizabeth rising before sun-up to prepare a farm breakfast for her husband, Robert Carson and their seven children. I am very sure that this recipe is one that she would have prepared many times over the years, probably quite often over an open fire. What I would give to be able to sit down with her and talk. I know that Mary would have many stories and that I would learn so much about the joys and hardships of being a pioneer wife and mother." (Melanie Horner Keyser)

Robert Carson Horner married 17 year old Mary Elizabeth Dobbs in Boone, Arkansas on February 6, 1873. He was 19 years old. Robert Carson was the son of Sara Myra Patterson and James Jefferson Horner. Sara named her third child and first son after her father, Robert Carson Patterson. Robert Carson Horner was born January 15, 1854 in Perry, Tennessee and died on his birthday, January 15, 1923, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was 69 years old.

Mary Elizabeth Dobbs was born in Boone, Arkansas on December 13, 1856. She was the daughter of Malvenia Snelson and Eli Silman Dobbs. Mary Elizabeth gave birth to eight children and raised seven, six boys and one girl. She had her first child at 18 and her last child, a boy, at the age of 42. It was this last child, Elie Silman, (E.S. Horner) that she named after her father, Eli Silman Dobbs. Mary Elizabeth died at the age of 66 years on November 27, 1922.

Robert Carson and Mary Elizabeth are buried side by side in Comanche, Texas.

James Jefferson Horner (1829-1912), the father of Robert Carson, was married twice and had two sets of children by each wife. His first wife, Sara Patterson (1833-1869) was the mother of 7 children, Nancy, Sarah, Robert Carson, John, Jesse, William, and Nathan. Sara passed away on July 24,1869 at the age of 35 years. She is buried in Boone, Arkansas. Upon Sara's death, James Jefferson then married Frances Jane Angel (1844-1932) and she also was the mother of 7 children. They were James, Martha, Thomas, Eli (twin), Levi (twin), Mira, and Myra. Frances Jane passed away in 1932 at the age of 87 years. James Jefferson passed away in 1912 at the age of 82 years. Along with Frances Jane, he is buried in Zephyr, Texas.

 

 

 

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