mypowerplan.myfreeforum.org :: Scalloped Corn Casserole

goldiefox

We have a favorite holiday recipe in our family.
Over the years I've given it to a couple of my
friends who've enjoyed it. I'd like to share it
here with a story that means something I think,
but what it means is just now taking form for me
after all these years.

I think it's because of the meaning you all bring to
my life and so I want to give the recipe and the
story to you as I'm thankful for you all being a
big part of my life.

This is the tale (and recipe below) of the famous
Corn Casserole.

When we were growing up my mom (that's what we called
my grandmother) always made this delicious corn dish
that my brother and I just loved. She only made it
at Thanksgiving time. Over the years, for whatever
reason, nobody ever got the recipe from her.

Awhile after my mom passed away, my pa-pa asked
me to come over and go through some of her things.
I'd already looked through her cookbooks a few
times since I'd been going over to cook for him
on and off since she'd gone on.

My brother had asked me to look for the corn recipe.
I hadn't found it so we just assumed it was something
she made for so many years she just did it from memory.
This day as I was going through some small boxes in
her closet, I ran into some old greeting cards and
memorabilia and there were a few index cards with
recipes on them. I found the casserole recipe !!!!

I called my brother to let him know he would have
his favorite corn dish for Thanksgiving this year.
I remember telling him that I felt so much like our
Mom had some how made sure her family wouldn't
miss a year without it, even though she wouldn't be
making it for us.

Now here's the part that has really just hit me after
so many years. I think there's a moral to the story
but I'm still feeling it out here.

I wanted to keep the index card with my mom's handwriting
on it so I wrote the recipe down on the back of a store
receipt that Thanksgiving, to go buy the ingredients.

Over the next few holidays, I continued to pull out
that "receipt" recipe and somehow the original index
card got away from me. Because I always took that
snippet of paper (the receipt) with me to the store
for ingredients, and only made it once a year,
I also ended up every year misplacing the receipt.

Oddly enough, the little piece of paper seemed to
show up a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, year
after year. It would just appear in the oddest of
places, just in time to be enjoyed and remembered
by the family for the holiday dinner.

A couple of years ago, I "passed the batton" to my
sister-in-law as the family generally goes over
there for Thanksgiving dinner anyway.
I actually emailed her a copy of the elusive recipe.
A couple of weeks ago, the little receipt showed up
as I was going through some end of the year paperwork.
I smiled at seeing it again and sat it in the desk
drawer knowing that she would be making it again
this year.

A couple of days ago, she called me, frantic that
she had lost her copy of the recipe. She was fussing
at herself for saving it in her email and not printing
it or writing it down. She had just been looking
in her old email the past couple of years. I knew the
feeling of taking the loved little recipe for granted.

I told her not to worry, that it had appeared again
on schedule again this year, and that I would make
it this year and bring it. I went to get it from the
desk drawer as I was talking to her. I joked about
how for granted I'd taken this little piece of paper
that had so much loving memory attached to it. I mean
the recipe is good, but it's just such a family thing.

I was talking about how long I had depended on that
receipt coming back around at just the right time of
year, year after year. For the first time in so many
years because I was talking about it I guess, I turned
the receipt over. It was barely readable. The date
on it was sometime in early November...1988!!!!

This morning I got it out to go purchase the ingredients.
I decided right then and there to make a copy to place
in a bound recipe book, to make my sister-in-law a copy
for her to save in a book, and to share it with someone
important who might enjoy it. I decided that I have
LOTS of someones who are important to me and that if
I put it here in the forum, it may be here for me next
year in case I lose the recipe book...

I can't tell you how good it feels to think of you
all when I begin to count my blessings during this
Thanksgiving season. You are the biggest group of
caring and sharing leaders who serve those they lead,
that I've ever known. I am so impressed with this
group on so many levels. Thank you all for what
you bring to the group and the world.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone !!!!

Oh...and here's the recipe. Don't know why our
family likes it so much, hope some of you try it
and enjoy it as well. My love to you.

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Scalloped Corn Casserole

1 16 oz can whole kernel corn--drained
1 16 oz can creamed corn
3 eggs beaten
1 8 oz. sour cream
1/2 cup corn oil
1/3 cup sugar
1 box Jiffy corn muffin mix
9x13 buttered pan--I use a clear glass baking dish

Mix it all up, pour into buttered pan
and bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes

Gus

Hi Debra,

That is one terrific story. Thanks for sharing it, and the
recipe of course. Maybe I'll shock everyone and be the
one to make it. Thanks again!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!!!

Robert B.

thank you debra.... about 4 years ago i had sent you a cookie recipe that had been handed down from my mom and had been in my family for years. we had talked about family and you wanted to share your mom's thanksgiving recipe with me. it now is something that has been handed down to my son and daughter...your mom has brought happiness and delight to many more people. thank you.

cathyromine

Thanks Debra,

I definitely feel the spirit behind your recipe as I
was at my moms yesterday for Thanksgiving without
my precious Charlie...I called him that since I was 12, lol

As the grandkids and great grandkids were going through
what they would keep and hold dear in his memory I found
in his desk drawer his notary stamp. Me and him had spent
hours on end either him notarizing or me for him and such
a little thing can be so special.

As I read your story I remember my own mama who I lost
in 1990 and her famous chocolate rolls which she made
every Christmas. We've all tried to repeat her recipe
exactly as it was written in our church cookbook and no
one has ever been able to make them taste like hers.

The holidays should be cherished and I will definitely
try your recipe and wanted to say Thank you for it,
That was very special and will be cherished.