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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: kitchen  was: exactit
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-23-14  19:59 <=-

 NB>> Daddy did quite a bit over the years, until his Parkinsons made that
 NB>> more problematic, and Mommy took over pretty much completely... when
 NB>> they moved in with Lydia, she got the job... ;)

 RH> Your dad sounds like he was quite competant in the kitchen. Did he
 RH> live on his own for a time before he got married or did his mom bring
 RH> him up to be comfortable in the kitchen?
 
Well... he was a scientist, so was comfortable in the lab, not that much
different from a kitchen after all...  ;)  I'm pretty sure he lived on
his own, though, when he was in grad school, and did his own cooking
then...  :)    and his mom probably did allow him into the kitchen when
he was younger... or his maiden aunts taught him cooking... :)  With
Granddad off to sea (career Navy) most of the time, Grandmother relied
on her family (she was oldest of 8 girls) to help her raise the boys,
when she wasn't tootling up and down the coast following "Dad's ship"...

 RH>>> The summer she was on bed rest while expecting Marta they hired
 RH>>> various local teen age girls to help out.
 NB>> When we were in the Philly area, they often hired seminary wives,
 NB>> partly for Mommy's sake, partly to help out the struggling seminary
 NB>> couples...

 RH> A win/win situation there. 

They both seemed to think so...  :) 

 RH> I've seen some of it around here with the
 RH> seminary & college; UPS hires quite a few of the guys.
 
Unless one has an independent source of income (pension, etc), the odd
jobs supply the food on the table..  ;)   I remember one seminary
student that was teaching at the Christian high school where I was...
his wife was rather put out that on the forms there was a question,
"Will your wife work while you are in school? If not, why not?"  She
thought that was a rather presumptuous assumption...
 
 RH>> I didn't cook but had to help with setting the table, drying dishes,
 RH>> etc. When I was a Brownie scout, we had to do something we'd never
 RH>> done before so Mom had me fix supper (under her direction). That was
 RH>> the first of I don't know how many meals I've cooked in that kitchen.
 NB>> That sounds more memorable than whatever happened to be my first
 NB>> encounter with cooking... ;)

 RH> More memorable is when I made my first cake from scratch--Mom dropped
 RH> a layer taking the pans out of the oven! She cut the other layer in
 RH> half and frosted it but it only lasted for one meal, instead of the
 RH> usual 2. It was my favorite chocolate cake too. (G)
 
At least she fixed it up...  So, she didn't trust you to be able to take
it out of the oven safely...?   Most memorable for me has to be my 12th
birthday fixing all the meals...  I was totally exhausted at the end of
the day!  But it was a good exhaustion...  And, I was quite content to
go back to just helping with the cooking, and only for a meal at a
time...  (G)   At least for quite a while...   ;)

 NB>>> Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, mostly)...
 RH>> I have that cook book around, probably up in M'ville. Got it for a
 RH>> birthday present when I was 8 years old.
 NB>> Mine was a present, too... but I don't remember when... It's still
 NB>> with me, with the rest of my cookbooks...  :)

 RH> I ought to grab it next time I'm up and send it to Sarah & Audrey.
 RH> Sarah is old enough to start using it; she will be 6 in a couple of
 RH> weeks. 

Hopefully they will treasure it and use it happily.. :)  Mine got so
much use that it's rather battered now... wouldn't pass along too well,
unless to someone that could be very gentle with it...  :)

 RH>> I'm going to hold off for a bit, even tho there is a good sale on
 RH>> meat at Lowe's this week.
 NB>> You can take some advantage of it just for current meals...  :)

 RH> I'm going to hold off--too close to the end of the month to be
 RH> comfortable spending much more money.

There is that.  :)
 
 NB>> No, but it is now officially on the list... along with passing along
 NB>> your appreciation...  ;)

 RH> Thanks, got the word Bill was in a private room because of some sort
 RH> of infection. Hope it wasn't a MERSA type but wouldn't be surprised if
 RH> it were. He's standing a bit longer now but still a long way to go.
 
Might be just a precaution, to keep him from being exposed to other
infections while he's fighting off this one...  As has been said, this
isn't going to be a short rehab, given the circumstances...
 
ttyl           neb

... I think I'm getting used to touhc tpying !

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