Dear Addie: You asked for old recipes. Please see the attached recipe for Hoppin’ John from an ad in the San Antonio Express-News in 1973. Frost Bros. was a store based in San Antonio, but the ad also ran in the Austin American-Statesman. Frost used to have a beautiful store in Northcross Mall when the mall used to have an ice skating rink inside. Of course, you know that if you eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day, you are supposed to have good luck for the whole year. It’s a Southern tradition. I love this recipe and have made it every year since 1973. It is a comfort food, which we could all use now. A note: It calls for cream of onion soup, which Randalls carries, or you can substitute onion soup and add a little cream. We serve it on cornbread.