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 -> Yeah. You take the bitter with the sweet, familywise -
 -> but other than my sister, I didn't get any sweet.
 HN> At least there was some sweet to remember!

Only after we left the house - before that, it was
divide and conquer. I have never made any bones about
it - I disliked and feared my father, though after I
left a bit of pity got mixed in. I hated my mother,
though thirty years after I left a bit of pity got mixed
in. I never felt the slightest bit of love toward
either of them. If we'd grown up twenty years later, we
would have been taken out of the house, and in fact even
in the very conventional '50s there was an investigation
by the county social services - when I was held out of
school because of scarlet fever, and my mother told me
to walk to the library (1.6 miles, no sidewalks for about
a half mile along the main road). Those people should not
have married each other and should not have had kids.

 HN> You've probably had more rain in that week
 HN> than we've had since the first of May. Bone
 HN> dry here, and the forest fire season started
 HN> early...
 
Cleared right up for the 4th, surprisingly. The concert
and fireworks apparently drew tens of thousands of people.
Free entertainment is a big draw in these times.

War cake
cat: cake, salvage
yield: 1

2 c flour (white or whole wheat)
1/4 t soda
2 t baking powder
1/2 c shortening - bacon grease can be used, because of the
- spices which hide its taste
1 t cinnamon
1 t other spices (cloves, mace, ginger, etc.)
1 c chopped raisins or other dried fruits
1 c sugar, brown (or white)
1 c water

Sift flour, soda, and baking powder. Boil all other ingredients
together 5 min. Cool thoroughly. Add flour and mix well. Pour
into a greased loaf pan and bake at 325 for 45 min or until done.

From M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf (Macmillan, 1942,
now available in the collection The Art of Eating)

 A surprisingly good cake, which I loved so much
 [during WWI] that I dreamed about it at night and
 which I have tried [during WWII] with practically
 the same results, can be whipped together and put
 in the oven with the ham and whatever else ...

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