MMC; Jackson(MS) phonebook food

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MMC

   OK.  From GOURMET, June 1978, pg. 81, col. 2:

   _Mississippi Mud Cake Front Street_
      _(Fudge Cake)_
   Into a bowl sift together 2 cups flout, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and a pinch of salt.  In the top of a double boiler set over simmering water heat 1 3/4 cups coffee and 1/4 cup bourbon for 5 minutes.  Add 5 ounces (Col. 3--ed.) unsweetned chocolate and 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, all cut into pieces, and heat the mixture, stirring, until the chocolate and butter are melted and the mixture is smooth.  Remove the pan from the heat and stir in 2 cups sugar.  Let the mixture cool for 3 minutes and transfer it to the bowl of an electric mixer.  Add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, beating at medium speed, and continue to beat the mixture for 1 minute.  Add 2 eggs, lightly beaten, and 1 teaspon vanilla and beat the batter until it is smooth.  Butter a 9-inch tube pan, 3 1/2 inches deep, and dust it with cocoa.  Pour in the batter and bake the cake in a pre-heated very slow oven (275 degrees F.) for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted i!
n the cake comes out clean.  Let
 the cake cool completely in the pan on a rack and turn it out onto a serving plate.  Serve the cake with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored with white creme de cacao to taste.

   It must be added that MMC/MMP probably does not go back much more than 1975.  A large number of excellent books just don't have it.

THE MISSISSIPPI COOKBOOK (Hattiesburg, 1972), compiled by the Home Economics Division of the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service.  This excellent cookbook has no "mud" at all.

BETTY CROCKER/FAMILY CIRCLE/BETTER HOMES & GARDENS/LADIES' HOME JOURNAL/SUNSET/FARM JOURNAL--not one of these dessert cookbooks from the 1950s/1960s/1970s has MMC/MMP.

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JACKSON (MS) PHONEBOOK FOOD

   I went through the Jackson (MS) phonebooks, as well as Nashville (TN) and others.

March 1976, JACKSON (MS), pg. 346, col. 2 ad:
EL BURRITO
Authentic
MEXICAN
FOOD
Served in a true
MEXICAN ATMOSPHERE
 TACOS . ENCHILADAS . TAMALES
 CHILI . TORTILLAS . BURRITO
 SPANISH RICE . REFRIED BEANS
 CHIMICHANGAS
TWO PLACES TO SERVE YOU
982-8808
373-2383

March 1976, JACKSON (MS), pg. 347, col. 1 ad:
Gibbs'
PIZZA PALACE
RESTAURANTS

 13 VARIETIES PIZZA
 6 KINDS OF PO-BOYS
 TACOS
 MUFFULETTAS
 RED BEANS & RICE
 SPAGHETTI
 4 VARIETIES SALADS
 PIZZA BURGERS
 WATCHAMACALLIT (Anybody know what this is?--ed.)
956-5048
366-1834
353-1798

March 1976, JACKSON (MS), pg. 353, col. 1:
TROY'S FISH HOUSE
  CATFISH "ALL YOU CAN EAT"
  Shrimp--Oysters--Steak
  Chicken Nuggets--Burgers
(...)
Old Hwy 51-N Ridgeland  Ms...856-6251
(I forget when McDonald's introduced its McNuggets--ed.)