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Skriven 2014-07-16 23:36:17 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: Mother's day dinner
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 06-30-14 21:37 <=-

Also from the Pond, 14 July.
 
 NB>>> And then there are the much more essentially "one-of-a-kind" items
 NB>>> like those...  :)   I have some copies of books of (adult) Sunday
 NB>>> School lessons that my great-grandfather wrote... there was a
 NB>>> whole series of them, but they were a fairly limited production,
 NB>>> I believe... not likely to be found just anywhere...  :)
 RH>> Probably not, and you're one that would appreciate them.
 NB>> Others in my family do also...  We've had to share them...  :)

 RH> Some in my family would only want them because they were family items,
 RH> not for the content. That's what I'm suspecting will happen with the
 RH> books I have to catalog/list.
 
Perhaps appreciation for the content would come later.  :)
 
 RH>> Both. He was the first of his family born in the states, the year
 RH>> after the family came over from Germany.
 NB>> So German was spoken in the home...

 RH> To the best of my knowledge, yes. Probably the ones that came over
 RH> only learned enough English to get by.

That's quite common... :)

 NB>> Pressure cooker beef stew, ready to be reheated, was another frequent
 NB>> Sunday dinner...  :)

 RH> Reheated in pre microwave days--in a pot on the stove so you had to
 RH> make sure it didn't scorch.

Actually our stew was usually liquid enough not to have to worry about
that...  We'd braise the beef cubes, then add cut up potatoes, carrots
and onions, and then some cans of stewed tomatoes... probably extra
water as well, since it was being pressure cooked... it was more soupy
than gravy...  But, yes, pre-microwave, to be sure... ;)

ttyl               neb

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