Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Page: 4 of 32
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H Mains Counta Leader
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2005
Kitchen
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bv Bonnie Burch
TOPS
Out with the new and back
with the old. Wanda Yarbor-
ough and I decided progress is a
wonderful thing in some areas
but not necessarily in the
kitchen. Our guest is pictured
holding a new Mr. Coffee in her
left hand and her mom's old
dripolator in the right, which
Wanda said made the best coffee
ever. And the pinch of salt Mom
added made it even more deli-
cious.
Another thing Mom did in the
kitchen was put a pinch of sugai
in her pinto beans. A pinch of
this and a pinch of that without
measuring - thaljC ktfw Wanda
learned to cook and added, "The
old-timey way was the best way.
I’ve asked the Lord to help me
cook like my mom ”
One cooking episode she’ll
never forget is the day she first
attempted to use a microwave
oven while on vacation in Tyler.
Wanda had never seen one of the
contraptions and when she put
some biscuits in, they didn't
brown so she cooked them some
more. And when they still didn’t
brown, she cooked them some
more. “You could have killed
someone with one of them,” she
shared with a laugh.
Meanwhile, Wanda's parents.
Dock and Inez Senter, were bom
and raised in Emory but moved
to Dallas when Wanda was a
baby. She added that her mother
was a wonderful Christian
woman, and if anyone ever went
to heaven, it was her. Wanda’s
father knew the Bible by heart
and taught himself to read and
write by studying it.
As a girl growing up in Dal-
las, Wanda remembered work-
ing at H.L. Green’s, (what we
called a ftve-and-dime store
back then), McCrory’s (sort of a
department store) and finally
Nicholson Seed Company in
downtown Dallas. She recalled,
"I sat at a desk and filled little
seed packages with bean, grass,
flower, and vegetable seeds. I
had tiny measuring cups and
learned there were several dif-
ferent kinds of radishes and even
such things as white carrots,
although I never saw any of
them.”
As a girl her dream was to
have a horse, and she remem-
bered the day when her sister
Gene’s husband bought Wanda
and sister Peggy a Shetland
pony. How to get the thing home
from DeSoto to Oak Cliff in
Dallas? Well, Bill just took the
back seat out of his car. He got
on one side and another man got
on the other, and the two men
shoved and pulled and finally
got the animaj into the car.
Needless to say, the horse did
its thing back there, and the two
sisters cleaned and cleaned and
then sprayed perfume all
around. Did that solve the prob-
lem? Well sort of, but when
Gene smelled the fragrance, she
thought, “My husband's had
another woman in the car?’
Somehow they got past that
issue, and Bill kept the horse, if
you can believe this, in the back-
yard of his duplex in Dallas.
Wanda remembered, “We rode it
up and down the sidewalk, and
all the kids in town became our
best friends.”
As one of eight children.
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‘The Different Kind of Country Store”
Wanda also remembered shop-
ping in the Oak Cliff area with
sister Peggy every Saturday. The
two girls rode the bus or walked
to the shopping center - things
we would not let two young girls
do alone today - and went to the
record shop and bought 45
r.p.m. records. Remember
those? They were about the size
of saucers and the holes in the
middle were the size of quarters.
Can’t find those anymore except
at antique dealers’ booths. Mem-
ories of days gone by.
Even though Wanda didn’t
grow up in Emory, she said she
felt like she was coming back
home when she moved here in
1981. However, there was some
culture shock after living in the
city. She shared, “If your car
broke down, you walked, called
someone or stayed home. No
bus6s or taxis. There used to be
nothing open on Sunday, and the
convenience of going to a store
after 5:00 p.m. was not possi-
ble.” My, how things have
changed around here in recent
years.
Today Wanda still sits at a
desk, but it’s not in Dallas and
she’s not measuring seeds. After
moving back here, she started
out working for Rains County as
a custodian. One day county
clerk Linda Wallace called her
into the office and asked if she
wanted to be a file clerk. Our
guest accepted and added, “It’s
an honor to work for her.”
Now to the greatest honors in
her life - her two sons, Ronald
Yarborough Jr., 29, and Timothy
Ray Yarborough, 21: “My kids
are the apples of my eye. God
sent me two angels,” Wanda said
as she beamed. In fact, our guest
went so far as to say that the
boys are God’s kids; He just
gave them to her to raise.
The glowing praise of these
two young men continued as she
said that when she had an opera-
tion a while back, both boys,
who live with her, waited on her
hand and foot. Housework,
cooking, you name it - they did
it. Mom added that other folks
tell her all the time that her boys
are good to other people as well.
So it’s no wonder that when
asked what her goal in life is that
Wanda answered, “What I want
to live for is to make it to heav-
en and to have my kids be there
with me.” My guess is that
they'll all three be there.
Beef Boast
1 McCormick Bag'n Season
roasting bag and seasoning blend.
Prepare according to package
directions. Add:
1 large onion
salt
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on Highway 69 East
903-474-9090
pepper
garlic powder
Cook according to package
directions. Cook about three hours
on medium heat.
Sourdough Biscuits
1 pkg. yeast
1 c. warm water
2 c. buttermilk
1/4 tsp. soda
3/4 c. melted shortening or oil
1/4 c. sugar
1 3/4 tsp. salt
6 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder
Dissolve yeast in warm water.
Add buttermilk with soda, shorten-
ing or oil, sugar and salt.
In another bowl combine flour
and baking powder Add to the liq-
uid mixture above and cover.
Refrigerate and take out the
amount you need. No need to let
biscuits rise before baking. They
will keep up to three weeks in the
refrigerator
Tea Cakes (Mother’s
Recipe)
1/2 c. butter
1 c. light brown sugar
1/2 c. milk
1 egg yolk
2 egg whites
2 c. all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. lemon extract
Cream butter and beat in sugar.
Add egg yolk and beat well. Add fla-
voring, then dry ingredients alter-
nately with milk. Add beaten egg
whites last. Pbur into small
greased muffin tins to 1/2 full and
bake at 350°. Cover with your
favorite frosting.
Mexican Lasagna -»
lb. hamburger, browned
large onion, chopped
large can Ranch Style 1
can cream of chicken i
can Hotel jomatoea
8-10 slices Velveeta chees
10-12 flour tortillas
Put one layer of tortillas in a
large cake pan. Put half of each of
the above ingredients on the bot-
tom, then add another layer of tor-
tillas. Add the other half of the
ingredients with the cheese on the
top. Bake for 30 minutes. Cover it
with aluminum foil for the first 15
or 20 minutes, then uncover. Bake
until bubbly.
TOPS TX 1244 met in regular
session on July 19. The meeting
was called to order by leader
Betty Gothard. The devotional
was given by Lori Wilson.
We all said the TOPS pledge
and sang the TOPS song.
Linda Franklin called roll
with eight weighing in. Mar-
garet Mierzwik was TOPS best
loser. The money can was car-
ried.
Lori Wilson read the minutes
as approved. We have two new
TOPS members. They are Dottie
Ford and Pat Pennebaker. Wel-
come to TOPS, ladies.
Linda Franklin gave the pro-
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gram last week on “Living In the
Moments” and “Headaches.”
Johnnie Dry has the program
this week.
We closed with our Helping
Hands Pledge and sang the
Goodnight song.
We meet at the Emory Baptist
Church every Tuesday night. We
weigh in at 6:00 p.m., and the
meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Men,
women and teens are welcome.
Come see what TOPS can do for
you.
For more information call
Betty Gothard at 473-4516, or
Linda Franklin at 598-3205.
July 26 - 29
Tuesday: Barbecued pork on a
bun. Ranch Style beans, cabbage
slaw, pickles, scalloped apples.
Wednesday: Chicken tenders
with gravy, potatoes rockefeller,
mixed vegetables, roll, cookies.
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(903) 473-2113
Emory, Texas
Thursday: Hamburger, baked
beans, fries, lettuce, tomato,
onion, cobbler.
Friday: Smothered chicken,
com passerole, California blend
vegetables, wheat bread, Jell-O.
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Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 26, 2005, newspaper, July 26, 2005; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth767401/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rains County Library.