Winter
Winter
Food
On days when it snowed and snowed and you knew it would snow
all day, Daddy would say sometime during the late morning, "Let’s
have Family Peach Pie". This made the day special: Mama
and Aunt Merica did not have to cook either dinner or supper.
Instead Mama made a big, deep peach pie in a large rectangular
pan and we ate it about four in the afternoon with lots of cream
poured over.
Winter
meant other special things. Aunt Merica mixed up buckwheat cake
batter after supper, set it to rise behind the stove in the
house and next morning served it for a change from biscuits
or fried mush. Daddy bought salt fish which we ate for supper
and for breakfast. Aunt Merica made noodles and apple dumplings.
Mama made bread pudding and Potato-Rival Soup. We ate potatoes
every week day; cabbage was fixed this way and that; rutabagas,
salsify, winter squash and turnips added variety to the canned
vegetables from the cellar.
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