This is today's question.
- What do you know about your surname?
- Do you know who was the first person to come to your country was?
- How many generations back have you traced it?
- Did the name spelling change at any time in your ancestry?
For me, My family with my surname came to the United States from Yorkshire England in the mid 1700s. My 4 times Great Grandfather settled in Wilmington, Delaware and married there. he was Quartermaster during the Revolutionary war.
My information stops with him, I think at this point the family name spelling was changed. So it's hard to find accurate records when this happens. It may have been someone who was documenting their arrival in the US wrote it down correctly but their formation of letters led people to assume the letter y in the name was an x. This changed the spelling of our surname from then on. So finding ancestors before this family came to the US is difficult.
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.
Milk and Cream - Left-over sour cream may be used in salad dressings, cakes, cookies, muffins, and sauces. To make cream whip, add the white of an egg or a pinch of salt. To make whipped cream stay stiff, dissolve a teaspoon of gelatin into 1/2 pint of cream. Remove the burnt taste from scorched milk by adding a pinch of salt and letting the pan stand in cold water. Keep milk from scorching by first rinsing the heating pan in cold water.
Miscellaneous - Make dried lemons fresh and juicy by putting in a pan of hot water and keeping at even temperature without boiling for about two hours. Grind orange and lemon rind to make a substitute for flavoring extracts. Peel should be scalded and dried before grinding. Rice left-over gelatin desserts and add to fruit cups, mixed fruit salads or pudding. Dry out unused fresh parsley, instead of throwing away and keep in covered jar in refrigerator; use the same as fresh. Use fruit peeling to make jelly or to boil up for use in beverages and dessert sauces.
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