Southern Recipe Restoration Project


The contributor:
Edith Flowers Kilgo, a sixth-generation Floridian who grew up in College Park and now lives in Locust Grove.

The story: “My father, Henry Collis Flowers, was from Madison County, Fla., and my mother, Winnie Rouse Flowers, was from adjoining Hamilton County. They married in 1931. He was 20 and she was 15. My father was the reason my mother did all that baking. Every day that man worked there was a slice of cake or bread pudding in his lunch , as she made one nearly every Sunday in order to have slices for lunchboxes the coming week. My mother was game to try any and all cake recipes. She wanted hers to stand out. Cooking was a competitive sport in those days, particularly for church suppers."
-- Susan Puckett, for the Journal-Constitution