Harry S and Birthday Traditions

It's Harry Truman's Birthday!!!

And we celebrate.

In Missouri it's a State Holiday

And it's a Holiday at Linderhof as well

For it's the day that the citrus and geraniums go outside!

Mother's Day is the rule here on the prairie

in Zone 6

(for there shouldn't be a freeze after Mother's Day)

and May 8 is always close to Mother's Day

and in my other life,

when I worked,

I had the day off

And it took a day to move the plants

In my now life, I've kept up that tradition.

Besides moving the plants outside

I clean the breakfast room really well

Windows, walls and woodwork!

But today there will be time for tea

A Harry Truman Tea

Bess Truman's Ozark Pudding

With a dollop of bourbon flavored whipped cream

(Harry favored bourbon)

And it makes a nice tea treat

in the afternoon

When the breakfast room is all clean and shining

And the plants are getting acclimated to their summer residences.

In the 40's and early 50's, the recipe for Bess Truman's Ozark Pudding

was in every cookbook

It was reputed to be the favorite dessert of Harry!

My recipe came from this book

Which was my Mom's

for we lived near Independence

and Mother being a staunch Democrat

would naturally buy a Truman Summer White House Cookbook!

What I like best about it,

besides being my Mom's

Is that all of the recipes are in the handwriting of the contributor

And here is Bess's recipe for Ozark Pudding

The one I use.

There are others on the internet

But none as good as the original!!!!

It is Thursday and my small tablescape of afternoon tea shall be shared with Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.     And the pudding makes a great dish for Foodie Friday -- I'm joining Michael at Rattlebridge Farm.

Oh, and besides cleaning . . . I'm rearranging the breakfast room . . .