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Skriven 2008-10-30 13:42:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15774 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> Normally it would be meat and rice, a vegetable, a fruit salad
 NB>  NB>> (eg a pear half on lettuce, often with a little cottage cheese)

 RH> The fruit salad sounds good but it would have been unaffordable for my
 RH> parents for a long time.  We'd sometimes have just the plain (canned)
 RH> fruit for dessert instead.

 NB> Applesauce was another "salad" item... Daddy would buy the huge jars,

Again, that would be a dessert item for us.  Steve's first assignment
after finishing all his initial military training was at Fort Hood, TX.
He made friends with one of his co-workers & rather quickly we got to
know the whole family.  Sometimes we would stop to say "hi" on our way
into Killeen & end up staying for supper.  A bowl of applesauce was
always on the table.  Several years ago, we stayed with them for a
couple of nights while visiting friends in AZ.  Sure enough, a bowl of
applesauce was on the table at supper time. (G)


 NB> and they'd last a few meals.  I think he made room in the budget for

My mom made it if she could; it was one of Rachel's favorite foods
whenever we'd visit my parents.

 NB> the fruit by skimping on the amount of meat he bought.. he always
 NB> served
 NB> very small portions of meat.

That's what we got too.

 RH> otherwise. Birthdays always had cake (no ice cream) except my dad's--he
 RH> always had strawberry short cake.  It's something his mom started;
 RH> we've often wondered how she got strawberries in January in upstate NY.

 NB> Good question.  Maybe a greenhouse product?  I'm sure they were pricey
 NB> in any case... a good reason to save it for super special...  At least
 NB> if they were fresh.  They might have been frozen strawberries, they
 NB> were often used for shortcakes...

I know my mom used frozen strawberries but freezers weren't too common
in the 1920s-40s.  My dad was born in 1922. I know the family had an ice
box for years but don't know when they got their first "real" fridge
with a freezer.  Guess I ought to get my dad to start writing somewhat
of an autobiography so we will have some of those details preserved.

 NB>  NB>> Even growing up, I got a chance to do a little experimenting...
 NB> and  NB>> had 2-3 cookbooks of my own before I was 12.  I just
 NB> expanded my
 NB>  NB>> repertoire when I got out on my own.  :)  The biggest change was
 NB>  NB>> learning to scale down from 10 smallish portions to 2 generous
 NB> ones...

 RH> I got a kids cook book one year for my birthday but generally learned
 RH> from "adult" cook books while growing up.  I didn't have the scaling
 RH> problems you did but did have to learn to make 2 portions vs 7.

 NB> I used Mommy's Joy of Cooking and Betty Crocker cookbooks.  One of the
 NB> cookbooks of my own was a fairly scientific sort... the recipes were
 NB> set up almost more like experiments.  And then I also had Betty

I inherited (in 1974) my grandmother's first edition Betty Crocker
Picture Cookbook.  It's a bit worn but not as bad as the copy my mom has
as it's her main "go to" book. I bought a JoC in a used book store some
years ago, a 2 volume paperback edition.

 NB> Crocker's
 NB> for Boys and Girls.  I don't remember anymore who gave them to me...
 NB> it could have been Christmas presents from parents and/or
 NB> grandparents.

That's the one I got one year from a friend for my 8th birthday.  I'm
not sure if my mom still has it or what became of it but mom made the
snow man cake almost every year after I got it for a brother's January
birthday.  One year my sister that has an August birthday requested (and
got) it.  It's basically a white cake, baked in 2 layers that are set up
as a snow man. It is frosted in white and coconut sprinkled over that,
with gum drop eyes, nose, mouth, buttons, etc.

 RH> From "More-With-Less Cookbook" by Doris Janzen Longacre for the
 RH> Mennonite Central Committee, Herald Press, c1976.

 NB> That was one of my main cookbooks for a while... along with LLLI's,

It still is one of my favorite points of reference.  Which LLLI cook
book do you have?  I have "Mother's in the Kitchen" and "Whole Foods for
Whole Families", first edition of the latter (with my name mentioned in
the list of "many LLLI contributers").  Rachel got copies (via her
sister) of both when she got married.

 NB> Fanny Farmer and NYTimes Natural Foods.  :)

Don't have those but I've got lots of others.  One favorite is "The Deaf
Smith County Cookbook".

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Ruth
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