When I was growing up the custom was to eat creamed herring on crackers for good luck in the New Year.
Here in Oklahoma, it's black eyed peas.
Black eyed peas and hogs jowls.
It's supposed to cook from one year to the next, thus bringing forth the good luck.
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My family has gone with black eyed peas, cabbage and cornbread.
Always do the Ribs or (pork) and sauerkraut, at times raw oysters, on crackers with a dash of hot sauce.
Ditto on the black eyed..I stopped having them many years ago. It must work for some...just not me. A good luck charm is learning from mistakes made in the previous year. That's about the best thing I can see that works for me:-) I've adopted this custom in only the last few years...hmmmmmm wonder where I'd be if I would have skipped the black eyed and done the learning thing all this time....things that make you go hmmmmm
my mom always had herring on NYE. I prefer to just get drunk.
When I was growing up it was dried field peas, hog jowls and collard greens. The field peas were the color of copper and the collards the color of greenbacks. I guess the white interior of the smoked jowls may have been the silver. Anyway, the combination was supposed to keep you rolling the the dough for the coming year. 🙂
waking up face down in the gorse - has little to do with any subsequent luck however
I'm not aware of any...
Here it is black eye peas for luck and cabbage for $$$.
I am doing the peas this year.
I don't use hog jowls but I use a smoked ham hock for the seasoning meat.
Grilled pork roast is the main dish
My mother always said that you should welcome the new year in new clothes so she always got us fresh pajamas...
I make the southern dinner on new years day with ham, black eyed peas (hoppin john), green sand cornbread...
> ...I prefer to just get drunk.
"LIKE"
Mom and Dad always did the black eyed peas thing... They did oysters on Christmas morning too...
I have dropped both traditions though... neither are my thing.
Kiss someone that has a good heart.
Can't hurt, even if it doesn't bring good luck:-)
With the luck I've had, these last few years, I can't imagine what it would be like if I didn't;-)
> When I was growing up the custom was to eat creamed herring on crackers for good luck in the New Year.
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> Here in Oklahoma, it's black eyed peas.
Would you believe I grew up mostly in Texas and Oklahoma and never heard of the Black Eyed Peas for good luck until I was nearly 30. My family just doesn't abide superstitions.
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MP, You wouldn't have grown up in ND, MN or WI would you? Up there with the Norwegians, Finns and Swedes, where one of my aunts by marriage grew up.:-)
Stephen
I've spent the majority of my years in Oklahoma but I grew up in Milwaukee where most of my family still lives. Lots of consonants and ski's in their sir names.
Here's a hint: My mother's New Year's good luck custom is (yuck) czanina.
(As time goes on, she has fewer sisters to cook it and less people interested in eating it.)
For my grandfather it was a glass of whiskey and an annual firing of his pistol into the air. I believe this ritual would be frowned upon in urban areas.
> For my grandfather it was a glass of whiskey and an annual firing of his pistol into the air. I believe this ritual would be frowned upon in urban areas.
Only the second part. It would be frowned on anywhere neighbors are closer than 2 miles apart.
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MP
I thought that might be the case. My aunt was Norge/Swede with her grandparents coming from the "Old Country" on both sides. She grew up in ND. Then spent most of the rest of her life in the Panhandle of Texas. And is buried in OK next to my Uncle.
Speaking of Whiskey - Try this bean recipe !
These are good - even on the second day ! Mmmmmmmmmm !
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Bob’s Whiskey Beans
2 cans (16 oz.) baked bans (B&M or Bush are good brands)
1 T molasses
1/2 T chili sauce
1 T dry mustard
1/2 C strong coffee
1/2 pint bourbon
1/2 C crushed pineapple
1/4 C packed brown sugar
Combine all ingredients except pineapple and brown sugar and place in a 2 quart casserole dish. Cover and let stand at room temperature 4 hours. Place covered casserole in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes (or longer as desired).
Uncover and top with pineapple and then brown sugar. Return to oven and bake for 35 more minutes.
