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Skriven 2008-11-05 10:58:52 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: strawberries etc  was: garlic
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-03-08 14:36 <=-

 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.

 RH> Still seems hard to figure out where my grandmother got the
 RH> strawberries--or how she was able to afford them, especially in the
 RH> Depression years.  My grandfather worked for a lumber mill for ten
 RH> cents an hour in those years.

Pricey being relative, of course...  There were most likely greenhouses
around, and if they only did it for your dad's birthday, they probably
saved up for the VERY special treat... maybe set aside a penny every so
often... or maybe she might barter with the greenhouse owner...
It was probably like the stories I've heard about the treat of an orange
at Christmas in one's stocking... wouldn't have had them any other time,
since they were much too expensive for regular... nowadays we just go to
the supermarket and get them, any time of year and think nothing of it.

 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...  :)

 RH> He did do that for the Veteran's Project in NY State, interviewed by
 RH> one of Tim Russert's cousins.  But, that project has lost its funding
 RH> so they don't know what will become of the interviews.  

I hope that they can at least preserve the interviews and pass them on
to an historical or genealogical society or library, even if they
weren't able to do all they planned.

 RH> I think Dad would rather write than talk; he's spent most of his
 RH> life in the "word" business.

Then for sure, get him writing... and soon...  Too soon, they lose the
abilities they had, whether simply the manipulation of pen/pencil/puter,
or the ability to put thoughts together....  and too soon, they pass on.

 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... :)

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

Quite true.  :)
 
 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.  :)

 RH> Very kid friendly too.
 
That, too.

 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 (recently), so
 NB>> that she'd have at least a point of contact with them.

 RH> The WFFTWF one came out in 1981; they started collecting recipies a
 RH> year or so before.  Rachel was born in October, 1978 but I didn't get
 RH> involved with LLLI until she was about 3 months old, January of 79.  I
 RH> stayed with them until early 1982. 

Hmmm... I'll have to check my cookbook shelf... when I crunch the
numbers, it seems I was* still there then... my son was born in 1974, he
was 4 when my sister got married (78), 5 when her first was born (79), 7
when she had her next (81), so it would have been early 82 that I left
LLL also.

 RH> Deborah was born in June, 1980 and I started the leadership
 RH> training procecess a few months later.  Never finished because of a
 RH> philosophical difference of opinion with the leader I was working
 RH> under so I quietly left LLLI after Deborah weaned completly.

I was also in the leadership training... started after I'd been
accompanying a close friend to meetings for a few years while she was
having babies... ;)  LLL was a little reluctant to promote me to leader
since my only child had weaned himself early (and of course, since I
wasn't then in LLL, there was some thought that maybe had I been more
persistent, he might not have really needed to wean that early), so they
were waiting for me to have another successful nursing experience before
becoming a full leader.  In God's plan, though, having another child
didn't happen, and by the time I needed to go down to Maryland to help
my sister with some health issues (the one I used for calculating,
above) it was also beginning to be rather painful going to meetings with
always a new crop of babies, none of whom were (or were going to be)
mine.  So it was good timing... what would have been just a "vacation
from" became a "retirement".  I left on good enough terms... had I ever
been able to have another child, I'd have been welcomed back warmly, but
as it never happened, that just became a closed chapter.  :)

 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 getting a spare copy of the latter when I had a chance,
 NB>> just in case.

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

Nowadays, mostly that's all I'm doing from any of the cookbooks... just
checking recipes to get an idea of what it should be, and then modifying
to suit our style, the ingredients at hand, my lazier inclinations, and
so forth.  

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

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

That too... (G)

ttyl    neb

... Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam.

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