Callaway Cookbook Dedication

Dedication of Cookbook:  Callaway Cookin’

Callaway Cookin’ is a collection of the Callaway Family favorite recipes.

      These recipes are from the descendants and relatives of Maude Lee Haney Callaway.  “Maudie” as she was called, was born October 9, 1876 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi.  On December 24, 1891, she married Jesse Render Callaway.  They had nine children.

   Maudie was renowned for her cooking.  Trunks laden with fried chicken and chocolate cakes were loaded into wagons or cars and taken to sick friends or relatives who lived in “far off” places like Houlka, Tupelo or Oxford.  Often she carried complete meals with fresh onion-potato salad and tea to local church picnics for “all day singings and dinners on the ground”. 

      Students at Campgound, Algoma and Pontotoc schools and Chickasaw College loved the lunches and snacks with cold ham on fresh homemade bread that her children shared.  Many of her grandchildren remember the smells of fried catfish caught from the local streams. They can still taste her blackberry cobblers or tea cakes that “keptthem from starving”.  Even when tripswere taken to other states, her red eye gravy and biscuits were the “talk ofthe town”. Maudie exchanged recipes with pen pals in the United States andabroad.  Her sons as well as herdaughters learned Maudie’s culinary skills. And passed them on to theirchildren and grandchildren. Memories of Maudie’s have been shared around theworld where descendants live, work and study.

      The Callaway family has shared their cherished favorites in the Callaway Cookin’.  It is the hope of the Callaway family that you enjoy using these time honored recipes as much as we have enjoyed collecting them.