OT Fall Suppers

Dawne Peterson · 2005-09-28T14:18:25+00:00

Our parish fall supper is this Saturday--so I will be "away" from RCTNmostly for the next few days, baking 6 or 8 pies, making jellied salads,answering the phone at the church office to handle ticket inquiries, makingvarious signs, clearing tables........Anyway, a lady picking up her tickets yesterday said she had just movedback from another part of the country where there are, she said, no fallsuppers. I wondered---are there fall suppers where you are? And what isthe traditional menu?? (I am told Fall Suppers started as a windup toharvest.) In my part of Saskatchewan, many churches and community groupshave Fall Suppers for fund raisers (and some afficianados do the rounds!If you are prepared to drive, you can attend a different one every Fridayand Saturday for much of September, October and into November)To start off, our menu is farm-fresh turkey (obtained from a localHutterite colony) with dressing and gravy, mashed potatoes and mashedturnips (our neeps attract a devoted fan club--lots of suppers here haveperogies instead), peas and carrots, jellied salads (if it weren't for thechurch supper the jellied salad would be extinct. I love getting out mycooking booklets from the 50s. Cherry Cola Salad! My effort with peacheslast year, when I grabbed a tin of peach halves instead of peach slices,has been nicknamed Harvest Moon Salad with much snickering), cranberrysauce, and home made pies of various kinds (I generally make several SourCream Apple, and maybe a Banana Cream or two). Everything is "all you caneat". We feed at least 450 people in between 3-4 hours, drink a littlewine, work until we drop, and have a wonderful time.Dawne

Sep 28, 2005 62 Replies

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Dawne Peterson 20 years ago

"Pat P" wrote

boiled > to within an inch of their lives, then drained and squashed down in the pan

curry or chilli - >I think they would both have died on the spot if I had ever presented them with >those!

Well, my mum thought HER mum made the best chili in the world. Herewith Grandma Anderson's Completely Inoffensive Chili: half kilo or so of ground beef, and a chopped onion, cooked until brown. Drain that. Add one can of Campbell s Tomato soup and one can of Heinz kidney beans. What, you say? Where are the chili seasonings??? One TEASPOON chili powder. Yup. One. No need to open any beer to go with this chili, uhuh. No. Not at all. And a good thing that is too the way some people carry on and the next thing you know they are drinking beer right out of the bottle and not a coaster in sight. (Thanks Gran) Dawne

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Bob & Marg Whittleton 20 years ago

MMMM - sounds yummy. We didn't really have fall suppers - usually in Ontario it's Strawberry Socials in June when the fresh berries are in. Some churches do Thanksgiving dinners.

BTW, is your Sour Cream Apple pie the one from "Cooking that Schmecks" or from Nellie Lyle Pattison's "Canadian Cookbook? Or did you learn it, like I did, from your Mom? My mom learned to bake it when she lived in Kitchener, Ontario. She called it Dutch Apple Pie, but it's a recipe I've only found in Canadian cookbooks.

Marg

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