OT Fall Suppers

No, it was rarely aspic - I know there was a lime jello with carrots in it one I particularly disliked. They looked colourful but they were usually not a gourmet thing !

The other church thing I can remember when we first came here in 67 was a Coffee Morning. About 11 a.m. and usually in the church basement. Long table, stunning white cloth and little napkins. Lady at one end (with hat) pouring coffee from her silver coffee set, lady at the other end pouring tea from her silver set (everyone had one, usually just thin plated items) and on the table, little sandwiches, rolled ones with asparagus, tiny cucumber ones, three tiered ones and on and on. Also all sorts of tiny squares and slices of cake. It was quite the thing.

Hours and hours of work for each lady but few were working outside the home in those days.

I'm often asked to bring a cranberry/jello mold instead of candy or flowers when I'm invited to dinner. I think it's too sweet, but everyone else seems to love it.

It's okay with me because it's easy to make and pretty much foolproof and for me that's the only kind of cooking I do now.

Lucille

YOU - going to CHURCH? The mind boggles!!!

Pat P

No you idiot GOW you! The coffee morning was a separate event on a Saturday morning, not related to services at the church.

We went because a woman I had met said it would introduce me to lots of other women and David could stand with John and he would introduce him to some great contacts in his line of business.

So boggle, boggle! Just don't completely boggle up!

Couldn`t resist! LOLOL!

Pat P

Elizabeth (who never claimed to be perfect, but always thougth Sheena was)

Who never said she was either - I am the first to claim I am full of faults and love every last one of them!! Watch what happens if you have a spell checker/grammar checker on, it automatically puts the apostrophe in. See you can't spell thought either ???

Also, I wouldn't have bothered to meet you had you been perfect, that would have been an ordeal lol

I do know better, I just don't do better and if anyone has any queries about apostrophe's, try this

I am over 50 but never came across this!! Fruit, yes, I can understand but salad, carrots, cabbage??? I already have lots of fun 'translating' American recipes and it looks like more research coming up....

Carolyn who is very very sad because her lovely LNS is closing

Oh, that IS something to be sad about.

I remember those salads. Usually a lime gelatin mold with grated carrots, cabbage, mandorin orange sections. Really tasty and cool summer salad.

Dianne

None of the above, really. The "Dutch Apple Pie" I have uses large pieces of apple, is quite cinnamon-y, and has a brown sugar/ butter/ flour crumble on top. The Sour Cream Apple uses white sugar and sour cream. But I think it has Mennonite origins, and just morphed a bit out west here. My mother would NEVER have made sour cream anything, as it was waaaaaay too foreign and exotic. Dawne

These were all the rules we were taught in school. Some of the language out there today grates me like 'she don't have' or 'they was doing' - man oh man ... and we were always taught never to use 'off of' - can't remember the rule right now but when I hear that from reporters, in the movies, etc., it too drives me crazy. I guess I had very good English teachers cuz all that stuff stuck. :-)

Sharon (N.B.) ................................................................

ROTFLMAO! I recall my grandmother shaking her head over putting sugar on pie crusts. That was "cheating" as you should be able to make a brown and flaky crust and turned it into "dessert" not a part of the meal. Pie was served with cheese at breakfast or cream at dinner.

Cheryl

Last night, while I was sitting in the warm room at the rink, a bunch of teenage boys came in - 15-16 year olds given the division they were in -

Dude, why do you want coffee duude Dude - I'd puke on the ice if I ate that before a game (ice cream cone). Like dude, are the girls coming (lots of snickering)

I was laughing silently the whole time. Cringing too, but figured that they are allowed to sound stupid at that age.

The one that bugs me is "I could of done it".

Pat P

There's a lovely Newfoundland one - "Don't come where I'm at, I'll go where you're to"

That's the one - lots of Mennonites in the Kitchener-Waterlo, Ontario area, and they, like the Pennsylvanian Mennonites, were called 'Dutch' (Deutsch)

My recipe is roughly (doing this from memory)

Unbaked pie shell Sliced apples

Put the apples into the pie shell, Beat flour, sugar and salt with sour cream until smooth - pour over apples Sprinkle with cinnamon and a little more sugar Bake until apples are tender and the sour cream mixture has set

NLP's "Canadian Cookbook" has variations -she suggests using things like peaches, cherries, berriies instead of apples. I sometimes substitute drained low fat yoghurt instead of the sour cream to reduce the fat, and replace the white sugar with brown. BTW, if you can find it, it's a great cookbook, originally published in 1923, and updated many times. I got mine in 1972, and still find it a source of excellent recipes using Canadian ingredients. As you might know, Canadian and American flours differ considerably in gluten content (I'm not sure, but I believe it is ours that has the higher content), and cake and cookie recipes based on US recipes may not turn out when using Canadian flours.

Also, if you can find a copy of Edna Staebler's "Food that Really Schmecks" it's a wonderful book (and it's accompanying recipe book) that talks about her learning to cook from her Mennonite neighbours in the K-W area.

Here's a recent article about her

I have made basically the same recipe using plums - very nice just now as plums are in choice condition this year. Never thought to use apples, must try it.

Have a good trip.

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:21:52 GMT, Lucretia Borgia wrote;

This needs to be cross stitched!

Alison