I’ve come to believe it is spring, for this morning a robin sat atop the garden gate. Scanning his brown earthly plate below, he quickly discerned a delicacy was being served up.
He ate-he contemplated all aspects of his personal kitchen-he returned to his lofty post. Sometimes it’s good to linger at the table after a meal, enjoying the warmth of the moment.
For us, this day’s supper was filling, with hearty food and sweet memories of a mother, mother-in-law and grandmother. The recipes came from Ida Moore’s small green notebook where she kept her favorite recipes and information needed for household chores such as how many gallons of paint it took to paint each room’s ceiling and walls and which years she undertook that huge chore; how many yards of material for the kitchen café curtains and the route she would drive to get to the Dayton Mall. She filled in the pages of the notebook back in the late 1960s.
Later, she and a friend would assemble a larger family recipe book, but this small green notebook is much more personalized.
That’s the way some meals are. An old family recipe can bring back all aspects of a personal kitchen, prompting ones to contemplate a different era, a loved-one’s life, how it’s all connected to today.
- 6 green peppers
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
- Salt, pepper
- 3 medium tomatoes
- 1 cup fresh or frozen corn
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 6-8 potatoes
- 1 pint milk
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 6 tablespoons butter
- Salt, pepper, paprika
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 ½ cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 ½ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
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