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Skriven 2008-11-03 14:36:46 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15944 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB> They might have been frozen strawberries, they  NB>> were often used
 NB> for shortcakes...

 RH> I know my mom used frozen strawberries but freezers weren't too common
 RH> in the 1920s-40s.  My dad was born in 1922. I know the family had an
 RH> ice box for years but don't know when they got their first "real"
 RH> fridge with a freezer.

 NB> I just checked with my resident font of information... (G)  His grampa
 NB> was born and brought up in Northern New York (St Lawrence co) in the
 NB> late 1800's, and had told him lots about how things were back then.
 NB> Greenhouses were used to grow fruits in the winter, mostly vine or
 NB> So, not likely to have had frozen strawberries, but fresh were quite
 NB> possible, if a bit pricey, so likely to be used just for super
 NB> special.

Still seems hard to figure out where my grandmother got the
strawberries--or how she was able to afford them, especially in the
Depression years.  My grandfather worked for a lumber mill for ten cents
an hour in those years.  They wanted my dad to drop out of high school
and work in the office for 15 cents an hour since he had taken some
office classes.  He didn't and was the first of his family to graduate
from high school.

 RH> Guess I ought to get my dad to start writing somewhat of an
 RH> autobiography so we will have some of those details preserved.

 NB> Very good idea.  :)  And/or get him talking on tape...  :)

He did do that for the Veteran's Project in NY State, interviewed by one
of Tim Russert's cousins.  But, that project has lost its funding so
they don't know what will become of the interviews.  I think Dad would
rather write than talk; he's spent most of his life in the "word"
business.

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

 NB> The most used and loved ones become quite worn, indeed... :)

And well stained, despite our efforts to keep them clean.


 NB>  NB>> Betty Crocker's for Boys and Girls.

 RH> That's the one I got one year from a friend for my 8th birthday.  I'm
 RH> not sure if my mom still has it or what became of it but mom made the
 RH> snow man cake almost every year after I got it for a brother's January

 NB> Lots of neat recipes in that cookbook.  :)

Very kid friendly too.

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

 NB> I know that I have Mother's in the Kitchen... probably not the latter,
 NB> as I was last truly involved with LLL almost 30 years ago....  I took
 NB> my niece to one meeting shortly after her baby was born, so that she'd
 NB> have at least a point of contact with them.

The WFFTWF one came out in 1981; they started collecting recipies a year
or so before.  Rachel was born in October, 1978 but I didn't get
involved with LLLI until she was about 3 months old, January of 79.  I
stayed with them until early 1982. Deborah was born in June, 1980 and I
started the leadership training procecess a few months later.  Never
finished because of a philosophical difference of opinion with the
leader I was working under so I quietly left LLLI after Deborah weaned
completly.

 NB> Fanny Farmer and NYTimes Natural Foods.  :)

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

 NB> I've got that one, but never used it much...  have lots others, too,
 NB> that have never or rarely been used.  Both FF and the Natural Foods
 NB> ones are in paperback... and certainly show their usage...  I even
 NB> ended up
 NB> getting a spare copy of the latter when I had a chance, just in case.

Some are better than others so it's worth having back ups for.  Others,
I use occaisionally but may modify the recipe I take from it to fit the
way we like to eat.


 NB> ... It's a waist of thyme to putt yore trussed in spelling chequers

Especially because there's no such thing as a sense checker which is
what most people need anyway.


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Ruth
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