Hot Cross Buns and Easter Foods

Today, we are setting the table with foods that are often shared at the table on Easter Sunday. - Karen Zorio, Former owner of the Bakery Something Savory shares with us the history and recipe of Hot Cross Buns. - Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine shares a recipe for Pimento Cheese from the Tupelo Honey and Blackberry Farm cookbooks. And she also shares a pound cake recipe from the Saltville Centennial cookbook by way of Sarah A Geer McIntyre - who was the cook at the Palmer Inn in Saltville Virginia around around the years of 1888. - Fred Sauceman shares a custard pie recipe that was a favorite of WWI Tennessee war hero Alvin York. This pie was baked for him often by his wife Gracie and the recipe for this pie was shared with Fred by Alvin York’s Great, great grandson. - And I (Amy) share a recipe for candied sweet potatoes by way of Phila Rawlings Hach’s cookbook Kountry Kooking, published in 1974.