Featured Recipe: Lemon Bisque
Lemon Bisque1 pkg. lemon Jell-o
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Summer Family Get Togethers As spring gives way to summer, many families will be planning get togethers, whether for family reunions or for July 4 or some other special holiday. In Texas, family get togethers are highly anticipated for the good company and the good food. Each attending family brings one or more dishes to the pot luck, and there is always enough food for many more than show up. One of the family favorite deserts over the past years for our family has been Lemon Bisque. In the 1960's, Lemon Bisque was the favorite dessert served in the Liberty Hill School cafeteria (Texas). The students all wanted the recipe so much that the cooks sent the recipe to the classroom teachers who wrote it on the chalkboard. Charles Pogue, (in the fifth grade, we believe) copied the recipe from the blackboard and brought it to his mom so she could make it for him. Soon after he brought the recipe home, it became an staple at reunions, holidays and Sunday dinners. There is nothing quite like the cool, sweet, lemony taste of this fantastic dessert.
Charles, who often begged the cafeteria cooks to give him the extra graham cracker crumbs left in the Lemon Bisque pans, continues to this day to love this dessert. Over the years, when he returned home to visit his parents, his mom always made sure to have Lemon Bisque waiting for him when he got there. It was a very special welcome home.
Lemon Bisque1 pkg. lemon Jell-o
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