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Skriven 2013-03-22 15:05:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 35112 av Nancy Backus (65300.cooking)
Ärende: Winter baking
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Hi Nancy,


 RH> Your parents, probably your mom, set up your medical care. Just about
 RH> everything else except probably school and church you were on your own

 NB> School, church and doctors were my parents' responsibility and
 NB> choice... until I became an adult... they've been mine ever since
 NB> college days...

Pretty much how it goes for all of us. Some folks skip the college and
do other things instead. But, sooner or later, most all of us do some
sort of survival cooking. Steve was on his own for about a year before
we got married--learned where good seafood places were in/around
Swansboro but also cooked for himself. Those skills came in handy when
he was sent various places with the Army and expected to feed himself
(no MTEs or DFacs).


 NB>  NB>> Also ended up with a very fluid accent, since it never really
 NB>  NB>> settled during the formative years...  :)

 RH> OTOH, I picked up enough of the NC accent the first time living in the
 RH> state that it has stayed with me & been re-enforced over the last 4
 RH> years.

 NB> Sometimes one finds an accent that just feels normal... ;)

And sometimes you pick it up without realising you have until you go to
another location and everybody says "huh?", been there, done that. When
Steve & I went to a conference in KY a couple of years after we were
married, we met a young man from Rochester. He was sure I'd lived in the
south all my life but knew Steve was from western NY, just the way we
talked.

 NB>  NB>> Trips (like for genealogy, family visits, echo picnics now) fill
 NB> in  NB>> the wanderlust that got created by so much uprooting early.
 NB> :)

 RH> I stayed in one area (small trips) for 18 years, then started moving
 RH> around. Really started moving around 12 years later and did that for
 RH> 26 years. People learned to write our address & phone in pencil into
 RH> their address books.

 NB> Or devote entire sections to the unfolding travelog produced by those
 NB> addresses...  ;)

The overseas ones were harder to figure out unless they had our quarters
address as well.


 NB>  NB>> There you go.  :)   We don't do that so much... probably the
 NB> only time  NB>> was when we decided to figure out steak and kidney
 NB> pie... may not have  NB>> been all that authentic, but it came out
 NB> tasting pretty nice...  :)

 RH> Have you ever had the real thing, was it based on a recipe or did you
 RH> just "wing it"? We've done all of the above.

 NB> I think that one was just a "wing it"... although Richard may have had
 NB> the real thing in his past...  Other dishes I've taken from a recipe
 NB> that I've changed along the way...  Figuring out Margit's Swedish
 NB> Christmas Rye Bread was one of those... she had an idea of what she
 NB> had grown up with, we looked at a number of recipes, and took bits
 NB> from
 NB> them, and then I went home and started baking...  After a few years, I
 NB> finally produced what she remembered... ended up with some ingredients
 NB> in there that she swore shouldn't be... ;)  But passed the recipe to
 NB> her boys, should they be interested in baking, or have a wife that
 NB> was...

Never know, somebody might carry on the tradition and surprise you some
time with a loaf of Christmas Rye Bread from the recipe. Either that or
Margit may go back to Sweden for a visit and find out that the rye bread
tastes entirely different from her memories. Then you'ld have to re
rework the recipe. (G)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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