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Comments and Requests from Grandma's Kitchen

I tried the Carmel or (Caramel) Cake and Icing! It is fabulous! The only change I will make on the next cake, is to double the icing. The icing covered between layers and on top. It was so good I needed more of that great Carmel Icing.

Rita

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Thanks to:

Tammy Fairbanks for her question.

Reenactment of the Battle of Resaca

Annual Observance

Third Weekend in May

On the actual battle site in Resaca, GA

Saturday and Sunday

Question from Jennifer:
Entertainment

Prior to the invention of television, or at least it's appearance in the common household, what was a typical source of entertainment for a family in the evening? And what would children typically do, whereas these days they may be playing video games?

Response from Tom:

Douthitt, Harry (Family)

From: The Editors Desk

Rita Redd

The word Legacies to me has many definitions. So After some research. These are some I found.

1.) Memories passed down by word of mouth.

2.) To be remembered.

3.) What one leaves behind.

This is a copy of a correspondence from Milton Long to FTW:

The Cook and Bakers School was at Post Headquarters Area. This was called the “Armored Forces School.” It included Signal, Mechanics, and other support training. I worked with Lt. John Harley who was in charge of the Motorcycle School.

When I was at Post HQ I would eat in the enlisted students mess. They used the students from the Cook and Bakers School to work in this mess as on the job training.

Soc Security is insurance not to be gambled with

G.W. Claiborne

from Petersburg Virginia

Hello! This is a very interesting site, I was wondering if you could help me, I am researching a Civil War soldier from Petersburg Virginia, by the name of G.W. Claiborne, The G might be Gregory, but I am not sure. Any information would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Bill Miller

Reply

Fried Italian Cookies

Legacy of Helen Drozda nee Mihu

12 egg yolks

1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder

8 tablespoons sugar

vanilla

flour-until stiff.

Directions: Roll out very thin. Cut into strips. Cut a slit in the middle (of the strip) and pull one end thru. Fry in hot oil. Fry one side and then the other side.

By Polly Mazariegos

This is the story about my sister Shirley Glory (nee Wagaman).

•Whenever you return a borrowed pie pan, make sure it's got a warm pie in it.

•Make home a happy place for the children. Everybody returns to their happy place.

•Always keep a small light on in the kitchen window at night.

•It's a whole lot easier to get breakfast from a chicken than a pig.

•Always pat the chickens when you take their eggs.

•Biscuits brown better with a little butter brushed on 'em.

•Check your shoelaces before runnin' to help somebody.

Noua Zece

My great-grandmother was French. She was born approximately in 1899, in France. My great-grandfather was Romanian like me. He worked for almost 30 years for Romanian Crown Estate being a wealthy man, having business and traveling a lot in the West of Europe. It is said about him that he spoke besides Romanian, French, English, Latin and German.

By Franklin T. Wike, Jr.

Growing up, I used to spend the summers with my grandparents, Warren and Marion Hostetter. They had a small truck patch type farm consisting of around 10 acres in Mishawaka, Indiana. The main reason I spent my summers with them, was to help out on the farm and while those years created some great memories, I think my favorite memories involve the time I spent in Grandmas Kitchen. My grandmother was ALWAYS cleaning fresh vegetables and canning them. She was a fantastic cook and I still miss the great foods she used to make.

One day I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you."

We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told, How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal, My son stood beside me very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked him down. "Move out of the way," I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

I had the privilege of speaking personally to General Patton twice. The first time was on a beach, Nov. 1942, just north of Casa Blanca. There were two others besides myself. The General came up to us, asked where we were from. Told us to be very careful and just make the enemy suffer.

Author: A U.S. Navy Pilot

Dear Terrorists,

I am a Naval Aviator. I was born and raised in a small town in New England. I come from a family of five. I was raised in a middle class home and taught my values by my mother and father.

My dad worked a series of jobs in finance and my mom took care of us kids. We were not an overly religious family but attended church most Sundays. It was a nice small Episcopal Church. I have a brother and sister and I am the youngest in my family. I was the first in many generations to attend college.

Milton Long Wedding

Preparing Children for the Future

From Milton Long

Recipe below is a great example to read thoroughly before starting.

Caramel Pie will make 2 large pies.

Legacy of Mildred Louise Craig/nee Lewis

Born Ocotober 16, 1876 in Ripley Tennessee

Died November 5, 1963

Most of her adult life was spent on Island 35, better known as Reverie Tenn.

Contrbutor: Grand daughter Mildred C. Sanders/nee Prentice who reports,

Below is some information from the U.S. Legacies archives on Burma Shave.

Way back in 1925 young Allan Odell pitched this great sales idea to his father, Clinton. Use small, wooden roadside signs to pitch their product, Burma-Shave, a brushless shaving cream. Clinton wasn’t wild about the idea, but eventually gave Allan $200 to give it a try.

Ice Before Refrigerators

How did families who lived out in the country keep ice for their ice boxes, and how did they keep it from melting?

C. Smith

Reply from Darrell Wiseman, Indiana

An ice man came around in a wagon and delivered large blocks of ice. You would take an ice pick and break off a chunk for your ice box. The rest of the ice was wrapped in cloth and placed in straw, out in your "ice" house.

Author Eva Whitehead

I was next to the last child, both of us were girls. My sister is about 18 months younger than myself. We would cut out paper dolls and make their dresses from my mother’s wallpaper books she received through the mail. We had some well-dressed paper sack and old newspaper dolls we would cut out ourselves. A head, 2 arms, a small neck, and a flared body with two legs. Then we would cut the dresses to where they would go over the head and hang over the shoulders to below their flared body. The others were cut out the same way.

MAYFIELDS CORNER

By: Joe Mayfield

by Anjum Wasim Dar

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

I remember that evening when we went to see our new house. 24 Willoughby Road. I was the excited little child, running from room to room, all around the house. Outside, it was so spacious, so open, so adventurous. You could play hide and seek and hide so well that no one could find you for hours and you would be the WINNER. Two tall trees gave the pillaric grace to the front of the house!!!!

By Susan Hopkins

I stood in a small Irish cemetery. The weather was unusually warm for Ireland. The sun shone brightly, and there was not a trace of the common soft Irish rain in the air. The grass grew very high, uncut for months, a traditional Irish custom I later found out, to help preserve the natural feel of the setting. The tombstone listed the names of distant relatives I had only discovered a year earlier.

Genealogy

Connie Sychowski

Editor Genealogy Corner

When growing up all holidays were special ones. The family would always gather at our home, all of dad’s children present and accounted for. It was just a special time for him to take a break from his busy schedule and make time for his family. BBQs and watermelon, I can almost remember the smell of my dad cooking London broil on the grill.

Red Velvet Cake

Legacy of Alice DeLuca nee Held

Grandview, Indiana

1 cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

2 Tablespoons cocoa

2 oz. red food coloring

2 cups flour

1 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 teaspoon soda

Earthquake Cake

Legacy of Polly Mazariegos nee Wagaman

1 cup coconut

1 cup chopped nuts

1 box chocolate cake mix

1 8 oz package cream cheese

1 cup margarine or butter – 1 stick

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups powdered sugar

¾ cup chocolate chips

Copyright: Bill Hawksford

In 1948, much to Billy’s consternation, he was wasting away his valuable young life performing dull uninteresting menial tasks at Catterick camp in Yorkshire.

Composer Unknown

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
inches.

That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Author Unknown

If I could, I'd enlist today and
help my country track down those responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in New York City and Washington DC.

But, I'm over 50 now and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 35
to join the military.