Back in the early 1990's I called Uncle Mickey to get his recipe for Giblet Gravy. I asked Nanny first, and she said she always liked Mickey's the best and to call him. So I called him at the lake and wrote the above recipe for his famous giblet gravy down. He was very firm about the 1/5 of an onion part. "Don't over do it," he said.
Uncle Mickey was a great cook. Meats were his specialty, and if it was off the grill, even better. But he could also put out one of the best turkey's you've ever tasted and his ham was the best. In fact, the first turkey I ever tasted was at Uncle Mickey's when he lived in Hoover. I remember that day so well, Aunt Katie came, and John was with her. He was just a little fella then and we all just fell in love with him.
I remember when Uncle Mickey died, Nanny had a boiled egg that she had just cooked for lunch. She stuck it in the refrigerator and didn't eat it that day. The next day she wrote the date on it.
Several years later I was cleaning out the fridge for her and I asked her about the egg with the date on it. She said "Leave it there, that was from the day Mickey died and I don't want to throw it away."
So I left the egg right there, dated 11/19.
Left to right: Charles Lloyd Baucom, Mary Katherine Baucom Ellis, Frank Baucom, Mickey Baucom.
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