Season 8, Episode 42. November 27, 2021. Thanksgiving Dressing and Black Walnuts

In this episode, we are setting the table with several favorite food memories involving dressing and black walnuts for Thanksgiving weekend.

“Dee Dee” Mary Constantine (Retired food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel, ) shares a memory and recipe for her Daddy’s cornbread dressing. Dee Dee also shares her audio remembrance of her interview with Shirley McMurtrie of Union County TN and Shirley’s method of dry canning black walnuts along with Shirley’s recipe for Black Walnut Candy.
Beverley Nells of Blount County TN shares her family’s dressing recipe by way Beverly’s Mama “Peggy Sue Sikes, who was from Lennox TN. Now Beverly’s Mama Peggy Sue Sikes is gone, Beverly is the person in the family who makes this dressing for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. This is a cornbread and toasted white bread dressing recipe.
And in Fred Sauceman’s Potluck Radio series - we revisit his segment on the historic happening of turkey herding in Tennessee