Food & Recipes

One thing’s for sure about Ann Morrison’s family and friends: They’ll never go hungry on her watch.

“You name it, I can it. I freeze, I make fried pies, I make peanut brittle, I make chocolate butter rolls,” says the 74-year-old Henderson, Tenn., homemaker who happily shares her tremendous bounty. “My mama said, ‘You give more away than anybody.’ The Lord has blessed me in so many ways, I love to give it away.”

Included in her repertoire of Mason jar magic are Pickled Peaches, featured in Country Classics II, published by the Tennessee Farm Bureau Women, now in its second printing.

The peaches get mixed reviews from people.

“There’s a lot of them that don’t know what they are or don’t like for them to have to have a seed,” she says. “Some people love them, and some don’t.”

Still, Morrison keeps making her prized pickled peaches and other homemade delights. She stores her wares in her own freezers and her two daughters’ freezers – she is mother to five, grandmother to seven, and great-grandmother to two – as well as her “library,” which is an old smokehouse she and her late husband, James, used for curing meat. A son converted it to “a pretty library,” Morrison says, with old books and souvenirs on one side and shelves for her foodstuffs on the other.

In fact, all of her children live within six miles of her, so large family dinners are frequent.

When two of her grandchildren were in the service, Morrison’s peanut brittle made it to them – all the way to Iraq, Germany and the Mediterranean. She sent it with the pastor when he toured underdeveloped countries.

He came back with rave reviews.

“That’s been my thing – peanut brittle and fried pies,” she says.

Before her husband’s passing in 2000, the couple farmed all of their lives – corn, cotton and beans.

“I loved it,” she says, having driven a tractor for 35 years.

Morrison still lives on the family farm.

“It’s just in me,” she explains. “I’m an outside person. When spring comes, I love to run a garden tiller and love to mow the yard. I’ll be here until someone takes me away.”

Want More?

Each issue of Tennessee Home & Farm highlights a selected recipe from Country Classics Volume II. Copies of the cookbook are available for $17 each, including shipping and handling, from county Farm Bureau offices, or by calling the Tennessee Farm Bureau home office at (931) 388-7872, ext. 2217.

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Magazine:
Tennessee Home & Farm, Summer 2010 Edition Edition

Headline:
Mason Jar Magic

Summary:
Canning with Ann Morrison is just peachy.

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