Whatever happened to FFV cookies? Are they still made or did the plant close? We haven't seen them in Fairfax County for years.
Also, does anyone know if there is a bakery in the Short Pump area of Henrico County that still makes the chocolate-frosted multi-layer yellow cake that was sold at the Thalheimer's bakery and more recently available at "Chicken's" in the State Capitol Building? I grew up eating that cake, was happy to get it at "Chicken's" and then it disappeared. They told me that there was a bakery in Short Pump that makes it, but I've not been able to figure out which one.
Eric
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Subject: Re: southern tastes and other sesnes?
Growing up in south Rich'mun, depending on the humidity, cloud cover,
and wind, some days we could smell the cookies baking from the FFV
plant way across the river; at other times you could smell the
tobacco in the tobacco warehouses down on Semmes Ave. It was a nice
smell, I guess tobacco smells nice until you light it. Since we were
only a few blocks from the river, a few times when the river was very
low there was the unfortunate smell of a dirty aquarium, that blue-
green algae smell, I guess. Peanuts baking in the oven, Daddy's fried
egg and onion sandwiches coming up thru the floor- my bedroom was
above the kitchen and he worked shift work at VEPCO. It always made
me hungry. Friends in Varina boiling a haunch of deer meat in a big
pot of water on the stove. I know a lot of people love venison, and
maybe it's all in the way you cook it, but this smelled awful.
Magnolias, lilacs, honeysuckle and roses in summer, and the wonderful
Carolina Allspice bush next door. And in Smithfield, the hickory wood
smoke in the fall.
Nancy
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On Jan 11, 2007, at 6:57 PM, David Kiracofe wrote:
> My mother always called it "poor horse" (to make fun of Daddy), but we
> all ate it.
> We've all been talking about the tastes of the south (and I guess
> Pennsylvania and Virginia Germans--our Kiracofes came over as George
> III's mercenaries, but stayed around because they found plenty of
> Germans here), what about the smells?: all this talk of ham, and stew
> and panhaus -- we get some pretty distinctive southern smells (don't
> forget collards!). What are some other smells we associate with the
> south?
>
> David
>
>
> David Kiracofe
> History
> Tidewater Community College
> Chesapeake Campus
> 1428 Cedar Road
> Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
> 757-822-5136
>>>> Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> 01/11/07 6:13 PM >>>
> David,
>
> The valley was settled by the Penn Dutch folks, if I remember my
> geography
> well enough. In my Penn Dutch cookbook it's written as panhaus. When I
> was
> little, my mom used to sometimes go to the family farm and get fresh
> scrapple. It wasn't in a loaf, it was just put in the pan and heated,
> often
> we had it with scrambled eggs.
>
> The local stores sell a scrapple, but it just isn't the same as back
> home.
> But, then what is?
>
> BTW, do they make Shoo Fly Pie in the valley? Do they put hard boiled
> eggs
> in their potato salad? Mom used to cut up the eggs in the salad, then
> put
> some sliced eggs on the top, topped then with paprika and nutmeg.
> First
> time
> I added paprika and nutmeg to potato salad for my Richmond-born
> husband,
> he
> asked if I was poisoning him!
>
> Anne
> Anne Pemberton
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