This is today's question.
- As a child, who was the oldest relative you remember?
- Was there anyone else in that generation that you remember?
- Do you have any photos of this person, maybe some with you in them as well?
- What do you remember about them?
For me, when I was a child the oldest person I remember was my Mother's mother. By the time I was born my Mother's father had passed away. On my dad's side his father passed before I could meet him and his mother passed when I was just about 6. I only met her once. So my mother's mother would have been the oldest relative that I remember. I do have a photo of her.
What I remember about her is that she had a candy store in the living room of her house. You see her house was where the county put the bus stop for the high school kids. I'm guessing that at first this was not favorable because they would hang out on her front porch especially when it rained. So she opened her front room and made it a candy store. I remember the old time Coca Cola machine on the front porch that you put a dime in and the small 7 ounce bottle came up out of an elevator. She had several glass cases with all of the candy displayed situated in a big square in her living room. It has a large glass container that held the little packs of salted peanuts and all sorts of candy bars, toys and gum. The display case was probably about 15' by 10'. So it was big. After that she was glad to see the kids every day and they respected her property from then on. She was a very smart lady.
I have one photo of her husband that I never met as he passed before I was born and as far as I remember no one ever mentioned him to me.
I have a photo of my Father's parents from their 50th wedding anniversary. I only met my Grandmother on my dad's side the one time. She came to visit us. Unfortunately while she was visiting she passed away. So it wasn't a good memory for me. My dad's father passed away before I could meet him.
I wanted to touch base on how I file all of my papers and photos. I have 4 very large ring binders. Each is dedicated to specific generations. So that if I come across information I can add it very easily. Here's a photo of the book that is my parents and grand parents. Everything is in page protectors so it's easy to thumb through. And I used post it notes for the tabs so that I can get to a specific person easier. They are 3" large binders and as I said this is number 1 of 4.
As a continuation of yesterday's blog post... Here are the two excerpts from The Lily Wallace new American Cookbook on Ration Cooking from 1946.
Making use of left overs cont.
Gravy - Use as a base for vegetable soup. Add it as flavoring to the tomato sauce served with spaghetti or noodles. Use it to season sauces used over vegetables. Smooth it, if lumpy, by turning through a sieve, strainer, or ricer. Add a teaspoon of peanut butter, if burnt, and conceal the scorched flavor.
Meats - Run through chopper and use for meat pie, salad, meat loaf, croquettes, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, chop suey, curry, browned hash. Cut into strips and saute with onions, tomatoes, green pepper or celery. Chop and combine with tomatoes and serve as meat sauce over spaghetti, macaroni or noodles. Dice, heat with gravy and serve over steamed rice. Place between slices of bread and pour hot gravy over top for a hot sandwich. Substitute left over pork, veal, and lamb for corned beef in popular corned beef hash recipes. Cut fine and toss into salad, bits of meat not enough for main dish, or mix with mayonnaise and have a nice sandwich spread. Cream left over ham and serve on toast, with waffles or in a noodle ring. Chop left over cold cuts and scramble with eggs as a luncheon dish. Salvage burnt meat by removing to dish, placing over it a clean towel wrung out in cold water and let stand for 5 minutes.
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