tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43812764295176443392024-03-13T08:34:42.591-04:00If You Can Read, You Can CookJennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-13812270472423304132016-12-26T21:19:00.000-05:002016-12-26T21:19:00.176-05:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My mother <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adored</i> Christmas. Early in December, we’d rummage the boxes of
decorations down from the attic: the plaster of Paris crèche from Japan, the
ceramic tree lit from within and studded with plastic “ornaments” (rather like
Lite Brite), scads of 1960s era figurines, like a Santa band and little
angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We twined the bannisters with
garland and hung brass horns all over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
wreath went on the outside of the front door and sleigh bells hung on the inside,
jingling at every entry and exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
house was transformed, and she loved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Christmas dinner was nearly always just our
family of six (excepting the odd relative who might be in town or a college
student or two unable to travel home for the holiday). But when I was in
college, my mother instituted another dinner occasion that began to rival
Christmas—for me at least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My unabashedly
Anglophilic parents knew, of course, of the lovely English tradition of
celebrating Boxing Day on the 26<sup>th</sup>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1989, Betsy invited a group of folks over
for a Boxing Day dinner—a tradition that persisted in one form or another for
over two decades.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The first Boxing Day invitees were the
Powers family, who lived in the neighborhood, and Bill and Ellen, teachers and
theatre directors who later married (by the power vested in my Baptist minister
father).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill had recently become the
theatre director at the high school, and my brother and the youngest Powers son
had just appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Crucible</i> (as
Samuel Parris and John Proctor respectively).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although I didn’t know Bill or Ellen really at all, my mother had become
quite fond of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The following
summer, I would play a Pink Lady in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grease
</i>under Bill’s direction—one of two summer shows we did together—and get to
know him quite a bit better.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">All these years later, I recall how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">festive</i> it felt to have such a party following
after Christmas, to keep the merry going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It speaks volumes about Betsy Stine, too, that the day after putting on
a big Christmas for the family she still had the energy, resources, and
inclination to host six or seven guests to a sit-down dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that first Boxing Day, she made rich and
delicious Poppyseed Chicken. I was not yet the pescatarian I am today, so I
loved that creamy, cracker-topped dish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The recipe is written in my mother’s hand on
an ‘80s vintage card bearing a Bible verse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It comes from the kitchen of Martha Santon, a hometown friend whose
daughter Karen loved my mother like a sister. (As an aside, I find poetry in
the fact that a recipe from the kitchen of the family closest to my mother in
her growing up years ended up feeding the neighbors who remain my dearest friends
from childhood.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one doesn’t mind so much canned soup.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Poppyseed chicken</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whole chicken breasts, cooked (reserve stock)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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can each cream of mushroom, celery, chicken.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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powder<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">2/3
C chicken stock<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>50
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>2T
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My mother held an annual Boxing Day
dinner at Brick Arbor until 1999, the year her ALS made itself known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the following December, she was unable to
host, and the Powers family made everyone welcome in their early 1900s
cottage-style house. That Boxing Day, the last my mother attended (she was
hospitalized by the next Christmas), she gave a recitation I’d never heard
before of a funny poem she performed in a Swedish accent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t remember what it was called or what
the substance of it was, but I was struck by this: here was my mother,
struggling to walk and speaking in a hoarse voice from her advancing disease, but still pulling out a surprise monologue she had memorized long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After that year, Boxing Day traveled:
sometimes the Powers family hosted, sometimes Bill and Ellen at their
astoundingly decorated recently built home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When husband and I moved back into Brick Arbor for a spell in the
mid-2000s, we hosted once or twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone from the Original Guest List who could kept the day open and
worked hard to be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother
passed, and still Boxing Day continued, with new additions to the guest
roster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father hosted it once at his
retirement community; another family friend who’d joined the guest roster also
held one or two Boxing Days at her great big house on Sheepdog Hill. The year
before my father died, the Powerses were slated to host but snowy conditions and
concern about older folks’ mobility led them to cancel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So 2009 was the last, and no one knew it at
the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once my father died, Boxing Day as we knew it
was at an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’d say it had a Damn
Good Run.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-88780571693903203932016-11-26T09:44:00.001-05:002016-11-26T10:04:28.766-05:00Midcentury Potluck: Zucchini Supreme<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I mentioned in my <a href="https://betsysrecipebox.blogspot.com/2016/11/redux.html" target="_blank">reactivation post</a>, it has been our
great good fortune to make many new friends since we relocated back to our home
state. We returned, in large part, for the
golden friendships we knew, but we have been blessed with many silver as well. Among these are a gorgeous and hospitable married couple who happen to be Champion Entertainers. This year, they hit a new high, throwing a
Midcentury Potluck Party for Hallowe’en.
The invitation encouraged 1960s-era costume and dishes based on Jell-O and
mayo (maybe even together).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With nothing in my closet that I deemed appropriate, I
scoured consignment shops until I found a mint green skirt suit, which I wore
with pearls and heels (of course). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
for my potluck contribution, I eschewed Jell-O for the savory; I knew I’d be
able to rustle up an obnoxiously creamy deep dish from the Recipe Box. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I leafed through the cards behind the
“Casserole” tab, there was this:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>I always envied that effortless cursive.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It had me at “Supreme.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How perfectly retro. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t ever remember my mother </span>serving this; how many other culinary delights are tucked away in
that Box, awaiting discovery? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There’s no provenance here, no indication of the recipe’s
source.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What would prompt her to copy
this out?</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If she saw it in a magazine,
why not just clip the page? (Not knowing intrigues me; and not being able to
ask saddens me. )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Zucchini Supreme</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2# zucchini. Trim ends; do not
peel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cook in salted water until
tender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well and mash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1/2# bulk sausage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1/4 C chopped onions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cook sausage + onions together
until meat browns, stirring occasionally to keep meat separated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1/2 C cracker crumbs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1/2 C Parmesan cheese (reserve part
for top.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 eggs, slightly beaten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 pinch thyme, rosemary, garlic
salt, salt + pepper to taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Add crumbs, cheese, eggs, +
seasoning to sausage + onion along with mashed zucchini.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turn into greased 9” pie plate or
baking dish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sprinkle with remaining
cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bake at 350˚ for 40-45 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I freely admit that boiling the unpeeled zucchini until soft
and then mashing them sounded gross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the eggs, cheese, and cracker crumbs turn this into a gratiny baked
delight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being vegetarian, I made it
with <a href="https://lightlife.com/products/gimme-lean-sausage" target="_blank">fauxsage</a> and it was really quite tasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
the hyperbole of the name, it wasn’t quite over-the-top enough to attain Squash Supremacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I would make it
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, the party was a GAS!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were candy cigarettes and Manhattans,
go-go boots and big waved hair—even a Marilyn look-alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the highlights was a recitation by my beloved of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti’s poem <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100270600" target="_blank">“DADA WOULD HAVE LIKED A DAY LIKE THIS” </a> ending with a
cigarette flicked to the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let
me tell you: people went to great lengths to outdo one another with sculptural
Jell-O, moulded meat products, and sweet-savory dishes (like meatballs with
grape jelly) that were all the rage 50-odd years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This astounding Super Supper Loaf ran away
with the prize for Best Presentation (<i>of course</i> there were prizes).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we stood around the table, martini glasses in hand, I spoke
of making the Zucchini Supreme and feeling close to my mother as I read through
the recipe in her beautiful cursive (that capital Z!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fellow partygoer (another wonderful newer
friend) said, “I actually met your mother once.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She attended the College where my father
professed English literature for forty years and had been to my parents’ home,
where students were frequently welcomed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I told her that my mother would have liked her a lot—and Bets would
have, too: a bighearted Midwesterner studying to be a librarian, Friend would
have quite a lot in common with my mom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So as it turns out, Midcentury Potluck is the catalyst for my
return to blogging. I owe my gracious hosts for far more than candy cigarettes and en epic evening. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-2088691619262985442016-11-19T08:39:00.000-05:002016-11-19T08:39:09.855-05:00Redux<div class="MsoNormal">
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</span>I’ve started or been part of at least two or three that have since gone to seed out there in the blogosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I always intended to get back
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the four years since my last post, I have sold a house,
moved to a different state, begun a new job, bought a house, and made many new
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the while I have taught,
cared for my family, sung in the church choir, practiced yoga, ridden the
commuter rail, read scads of books, and enjoyed flourishing friendships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have even cooked a little bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the recipe box?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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paper or walked past on my way to do laundry, I have caught sight of the box,
and silently vowed to take up this project again.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Time is Now. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-91213800527578186362012-05-28T20:37:00.000-04:002012-05-28T20:44:52.035-04:00Here Comes Summer!<br />
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Beginning
in the 1990s, my mom hosted an informal gathering on Memorial Day for several
years running and called it “Here Comes Summer!” (Labor Day was of course “There
Goes Summer” for her and all the teachers we knew.) The same group of in-town friends came each year—Kendra,
Renie and her family, the Johnsons, neighbors Chuck and Donna and any of their
assorted children who might be in town. My siblings and I would invite various friends as well, depending
on who was around. In later years,
a Catholic priest who’d been added to the guest list invariably arrived with a
gorgeous confection from a local bakery, making the same charming joke about
having slaved away all day. Beginning
in mid afternoon, we would snack on Ro-Tel dip, deviled eggs, wings, crabbie
melts—time-honored treats always made the same way by the same people. In the early years, burgers and dogs and
picnic salads followed the
appetizers, but we might have done away with the “main course” eventually
because the appetizers were so, well, appetizing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> At
our New England address, Memorial Day was just as often rainy and cold as it
was sunny and warm. Folks would
sit on the screen porch nonetheless; rain or shine, we’d break out the first
summer ales of the season, along with specially-made whiskey sours for one of
the guests. In the wooden box I
find two Here Comes Summer staples, both attributed to Kendra and Renie (both
staples themselves in the family friend department and excellent seamstresses):
crabbie melts and Jezebel. Both
recipes are materially interesting, too.
Jezebel (named, of course, after the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%209&version=KJV" target="_blank">depraved Old Testament queen</a>) is easy to make but tricky, perhaps, to like. (It’s basically horseradish and jellies over cream cheese.) I found two renderings of this
one. </span><span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The first, likely the
original, is on the reverse of a pink “While You Were Out” message sheet, and
scrawled in my mother’s writing. </span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3vKmS0tPoLI/T8QZGvjqg1I/AAAAAAAAALs/ys0JR4HBrFE/s1600/Jezebel+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3vKmS0tPoLI/T8QZGvjqg1I/AAAAAAAAALs/ys0JR4HBrFE/s320/Jezebel+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Even
though my mother eventually copied the ingredients neatly on an actual recipe
card, she kept the first copy. To
make Jezebel requires<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> 1
12-oz jar of pineapple preserves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> 4
tsp dry mustard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Mix
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">That is all. I
recall it being served with the <a href="http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/ProductDetail.aspx?catID=742" target="_blank">Pepperidge Farm Entertaining Quartet</a>: butterflies,
sesame wafers, wheat and water crackers. There was <i>always</i></span><span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Jezebel left over in the
fridge. I would have a bite or two
then think how old school a food it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Crabbie melts were the purview
of Kendra, who always brought the ingredients and made them in our oven. The recipe is on a plain card, in my
mother’s handwriting; on the reverse, the proportions are slightly modified and
written in my brother Nathaniel’s printing-cursive
hybrid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Nathaniel is no fish
eater. (When he toured Japan with
a professional chorus, everyone in the group blew their per diems on
sushi. He ate at Subway and returned
home laden with expense money.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But he LOVES crabbie
melts. I know he copied out Kendra’s
recipe for himself; what’s on the back of my mom’s original recipe isn’t
exactly clear. Hers reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Crabbie
Melts — K & R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> 1
stick margarine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> 1
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> 1/2
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oz can crabmeat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> Spread
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">My brother’s version makes no mention of English muffins and
calls for more of everything. I
wonder if it is a “dip” version, perhaps? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #339966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> By
my count, it is 11 years since my Mom hosted her last Here Comes Summer. That doesn’t quite seem possible. Sipping a summer ale as I write, on a
very hot day on my shady deck, I wouldn’t want to have the oven on today for
crabbie melts. Maybe this is good weather
for Jezebel—that creamy, fruity-cool, sour-sweet, no-cook oddity I always
passed up in favor of deviled eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-25649722302559700232011-07-25T10:10:00.016-04:002011-07-25T12:00:28.330-04:00Calling out my Non-Cooking Cousin: Laura’s Gingerbread<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>When I launched this blog, I made sure interested parties—relatives, friends, and featured cooks—would see it.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My cousin, an amazing teacher, enthusiastic thespian, and voracious reader, emailed me to say, “</span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I saw your earlier post about the recipe blog. It's a wonderful idea, but I'm sure not much of a cook.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Be that as it may, she’s not wholly absent from the recipe box.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At some point, even she sent along a recipe, probably enclosed in one of her long newsy letters. Her name isn’t on it, but to paraphrase the March family's servant </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hannah</span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, “</span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I'd know which those handwriting letters belonged to, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=AlcLitt.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=10&division=div2">ef I see 'em in Chiny."</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9O30hL96bIA/Ti2NeYVQ3XI/AAAAAAAAAJo/Q-_qRHsojBM/s320/gingerbread%2Btitle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633314261977587058" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 79px; " /></span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chris and her Aunt Betsy exchanged letters regularly; my cousin’s were often on repurposed paper, with something else typed or scrawled on the back.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Even though the letters were not addressed to me, I always loved reading them for their descriptive, vivid, and full-of-personality anecdotes and musings. I remember one Christmastime letter with a phrase like “basking in the glow of piles of post-present wrapping paper” or some such. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Betsy and Christine had a singular relationship; my mother was only twenty and in college when her first niece came along, and they were always close and in touch. My mom often recounted Chris’ adventures, observations, or tart comments with pleasure and amusement. When I look at my cousin today, I see some of the contours of my mother’s face—if I look like Bets in one genetic direction, Chris resembles her in another.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In her early 20s, Christine actually moved out from Indiana to live in the Boston area for two or three years. She lifeguarded at the <a href="http://www.ymcaboston.org/hydepark/">Hyde Park YMCA</a> and we saw her frequently.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She even took me for the weekend one time.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We swam at the Y pool, meandered through downtown Boston, and shopped at Quincy Market (where I was in raptures over a red satin heart pillow and unicorn shoelaces I bought at the now-defunct Have-a-Heart shop).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We had a sleepover and I got to stay up and watch </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Love Boat </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and the even more risqué </span></span><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwaEydIpS0E&feature=related."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fantasy Island</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chris married a Hemingway-reading art teacher, artist, and writer; they have two boys, now young men.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She is a </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GREAT</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> boy mom—she not only goes to </span></span><a href="http://www.gencon.com/2011/indy/default.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gen Con</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> willingly, she puts on a costume to boot.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After years of teaching in the Indianapolis school system, my cousin left the classroom in order to run </span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/KidsPlay-Inc-childrens-theatre/137115596319053"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a non-profit acting company for kids</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">With all this in mind, Chris’ recipe contribution is more than apt. It's on a folded slip of paper, not a recipe card, and annotated in her quirky, distinctive hand (“We got this in Kiddie Lit”).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> It's </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">timely too, </span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">given the recent publication of Wendy McClure’s </span></span><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wilder-Life-Adventures-Little-Prairie/dp/1594487804."><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Wilder Life</span></span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#0000FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQYikXCj1rk/Ti2Qiicy9wI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/pmqm5o7zfXU/s320/Ingalls%2Bgingerbread.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633317631947896578" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Laura’s Gingerbread<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(from </span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Horn Book</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, December 1953)</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1 c. brown sugar blended with<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">½ c. lard or other shortening<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1 c. molasses mixed well with above<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2 tsp. soda in 1 c. boiling water (be sure cup is full after foam runs off)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mix all the above well.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">To 3 c. of flour add 1 tsp. each: ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">cloves, ½ tsp. salt<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Sift all into sugar/lard mixture and mix well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Add 2 well-beaten eggs.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mixture will be thin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Pour into greased and floured 9 x 13 and bake in moderate oven (350˚)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>30 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Raisins or candied fruit may be added if desired.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Note: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">if a more dominant ginger flavor is desired, double the <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">amount of ginger and omit the other spices</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I love the chain of transmission here: Laura’s original recipe, reprinted in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Horn Book</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> in 1953, was typed onto a piece of paper and mimeographed in purple (can’t you just smell the fresh wet ink?), given out in a </span></span><a href="http://www.butler.edu/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">university</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> children’s lit class, sent to my mother through the U.S. Postal service and now blogged electronically some twenty-odd years later. F</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ood itself is a transient pleasure, but this list of ingredients and directions persists, and in increasingly contemporary forms.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Funny the things that outlast us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Trebuchet MS";font-family:";color:blue;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Trebuchet MS";font-family:";color:blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-Lucida Grande";font-family:";font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-70097349161618669242011-07-11T11:33:00.020-04:002011-07-11T17:19:22.338-04:00Snack Time Cookies<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I don’t know that I ever sampled this recipe: it seems a pretty standard molasses cookie.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">But as an artifact, this index card opens into a volume of stories.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">My maternal grandmother, <a href="http://www.genealogybuff.com/in/in-wells-obits8.htm">Esther Roof Carnall</a>, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">passed this along to my mother from the kitchen of her sister, Aunt Jess.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Born in Poneto, Indiana, in 1909, Esther was one of nine. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">She was a widow for most of my life; I have only a single fleeting memory of <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35437954">my grandfather</a>, who passed when I was two. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">I do, however, remember meeting Aunt Jess on one or two of our Midwest odysseys.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Because most of my mother’s family remained in the greater Fort Wayne area, we saw them infrequently.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">But </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">my mother spoke fondly of every single cousin, aunt, uncle, and friend from her growing up years in <a href="http://www.ci.bluffton.in.us/homepage.htm">Bluffton</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Another reason this recipe caught my attention is that I possess no culinary memories of my grandmother. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">She was patently</span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> not</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> an apron-wearing, white-haired, sweet grandmotherly type.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Nope: she was a Florida-dwelling, Winston-smoking, polyester-wearing, gin-sipping matriarch with a wry sense of humor and decided opinions she wasn’t at all shy about voicing. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">She came to visit us in Massachusetts for two weeks each summer.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">On the way home from Logan, we always stopped at <a href="http://www.kappys.com/">Kappy’s</a> to pick up some gin for her nightly cocktail. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> The regular cigarettes and gin & tonics notwithstanding, Esther was around long enough for us to develop a warm relationship. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">She outlasted her eight siblings, l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">iving to just past her 93</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">rd</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> birthday. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">At her memorial service in 2002, I read (with difficulty) my mother’s written tribute to her.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">By that point, Bets's ALS was too advanced for her to travel. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">At the funeral home, I also had a lovely conversation with Jess’s daughter Judy who seemed to look a little like the Aunt Jess I remembered.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I didn’t expect </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">quite </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">so many stories to tumble out before I got to the cookies. (I actually pruned a couple of anecdotes in the name of succinctness). This recipe is quirky: the measurements are specific, but the baking directions are a bit loosey-goosey.</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Snack Time Cookies</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Aunt Jess</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Double recipe</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">1 ½ C. sugar</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">1 C. shortening (2 sticks oleo) </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">2 eggs</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">3 C. flour</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">1 ½ t. soda</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">½ C. <a href="http://www.brerrabbit.com/">Green Label Briar </a></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><a href="http://www.brerrabbit.com/">[sic]</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><a href="http://www.brerrabbit.com/"> Rabbit Molasses </a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Drop – Don’t know oven temp.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Just experiment.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Jess says she uses her mixer and just sorta puts everything</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">[</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">missing word: in?]</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> at once.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[In my mother’s hand] </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">10 min @ 350˚</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O5dHbIWbtQQ/Thsam-1pIEI/AAAAAAAAAH8/WvlqMvIE6R0/s320/DSCN0459.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628121416334909506" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">After experimenting as the recipe exhorts, my mother annotated the card with an oven temperature and a baking duration.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-11scrymEIU4/Thsbtu_pJwI/AAAAAAAAAIE/QW_ZTfBDAQ4/s320/DSCN0468.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628122631852599042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px; " /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"></span></span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I’m charmed here by the reference to oleo (it strikes me as very WWII-era) and by Esther’s molasses brand transcription error. (Did she miss the <a href="http://www.uncleremus.com/index.html">Uncle Remus</a> reference?)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Clearly, this stained and torn card saw some use, but I wish I recalled the cookies.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Perhaps I’ll have to procure some molasses and bake up a batch.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;text-indent: 0.5in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I bet they’d pair wonderfully with a gin & tonic.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div>Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-25246753718659502242011-07-04T10:27:00.008-04:002011-07-04T11:51:30.006-04:00All Butter, All the Time: Bets's Shortbread<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wj5i8qo_xqY/ThHOxRGk03I/AAAAAAAAAHs/EnANfTAfJ_M/s1600/Shortbread.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wj5i8qo_xqY/ThHOxRGk03I/AAAAAAAAAHs/EnANfTAfJ_M/s320/Shortbread.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625504755362354034" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> Ask any of the dozens who enjoyed my mother’s hospitality over the years to recall something she served, and a healthy majority would mention The Shortbread.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Buttery, irresistible, and always appropriate, shortbread was Bets’s go-to contribution, “the only recipe I can carry in my head,” she told me one time.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">So identified with her kitchen were these squares of buttery delight that I was surprised to learn the recipe actually came from our family friend, Dolly.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">The few lines needed for the finished product, on a scrap of blue paper, are written in an unfamiliar hand, probably Dolly’s, and feature a couple of doodle sketches. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">(Dolly is also an accomplished artist, but as I look, I think these show two slicing methods for the finished product—into wedges or squares—depending on the shape of the pan.) </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">The impromptu slip of paper suggests a recipe quickly jotted down at a dinner party or outdoor gathering. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">My mother annotated the recipe after the fact: “ShortBread—Dolly” appears in the upper right hand corner; she also wrote “thickness” sideways next to the baking directions.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">The ink is blotted and the paper stained and smudged with use.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> My first December at </span></span><a href="http://www.baylor.edu/english/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">grad school in Texas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">,</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> my friend Beth and I decided to throw a holiday party for our fellow English grad students.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">In those pre-email, pre-internet days, I had to phone my mom to get her shortbread recipe.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Like hers, my own copy of the recipe is scrawled on a piece of scrap paper, also blue.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">With additional directions for trifle, mulled wine, and hot spiced cider (and a notice on the obverse about student-rate subscriptions to the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Houston Chronicle</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">), my recipe has lived between the pages of my </span></span><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/More-Less-Cookbook-World-Community/dp/083619263X"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">More With Less</span></span></a></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">cookbook for years.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">To make (as written):</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">1 lb butter<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">1 cup sugar<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">4 cups flour<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Mix and pat into 9 x 13”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">bake in slow until lightly brown <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">1 ½ hour — 200˚ —<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">I would add only a caveat or two from my own copy: once the browning starts, watch carefully because all that butter will burn, burn, burn.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Cut into squares or wedges while still hot. Delightful at teatime, a rich finish to any meal, and suitable for Christmas giving in a decorative tin, these </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/forster/howards_end/16/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">little deadlies</span></a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">keep well, freeze well, and please well.</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381276429517644339.post-64912400826264506462011-07-02T18:47:00.010-04:002011-07-04T11:54:55.285-04:00The story behind the blog<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My beloved mother, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;"><a href="http://www.news-banner.com/index/news-app/story.510/menu./sec./home.">Betsy Carnall Stine</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">, was (among many other things) a talented cook and a warm hostess. A transplanted Hoosier who raised her family in Massachusetts, my mother subscribed to a kind of 1950s housewife school of cooking: scratch baking, casseroles, Sunday roast. Our house was always filled with people—my parents’ many and varied friends, neighborhood kids, our schoolmates, and students from the college where my father taught f</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';">or 40 years. When my mom passed away in 2005 from ALS-related complications, her box of recipe cards remained mounted on the kitchen wall.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';color:#006600;"><br /></span><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AWIkRJ4Pwdc/Tg-iGCfwoTI/AAAAAAAAAHk/DzrMo8I8f1M/s320/the%2Brecipe%2Bbox.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624892684242034994" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When my father sold the family home in 2008, I took the two-drawered wooden box, glad to have salvaged something that preserves my mother’s personhood so aptly. I treasure the box’s contents not only as the ingredients that flavored my growing-up years, but as small souvenirs of a generous life. The hundreds of recipe cards are almost all handwritten, and not only in my mother’s elegant cursive. Here and there I recognize my maternal grandmother’s hand; other recipes hail from the kitchens of the many good cooks my mother counted among her friends.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I never expected to find myself launching a recipe blog. I mean, it’s not a very original conception: the blogosphere is supersaturated with posting foodies. What’s more, anyone who knows me well can attest that whatever talents I may possess tend to lie <i>outside</i> of the kitchen. But even as I may be sharing recipes, I am far more interested in their histories. Each recipe is its own sweet or savory letter—often from another kitchen— recalling a friendship, a place, a meal, a memory.<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The title of this weblog, “If you can read, you can cook,” was my mother’s practical-minded mantra. To this day, when I feel myself a culinary butterfingers (forgive a terrible pun), I remember to relax, read the directions and follow them in order, even if I think I have a better way.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> It’s not bad advice, really.</span></div></div></div>Jennie-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07933161864802640455noreply@blogger.com4