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This is a great time to start pie plans for the fall and winter. The annual pie sale, during the hospital guild's rummage sale, is the first week in October. To keep the taste of summer, freeze or can fresh ripe fruit now, and turn it into a pie later! Or make the filling and freeze it, or make the pie and freeze it, cooked or not. I found a wonderful soggy crust remedy in Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Pie and Pastry Bible. This could be adapted for any fruit that is "too juicy". After adding the...
A local farmwoman, who prefers to remain anonymous, recalls the time she attempted to bake in the wood burning stove. She was about 8 years old, alone in the house, “and I decided to make cupcakes.” Without a thought of stove temperature, she plopped the pans in the oven. The cupcakes began to rise, but stopped as the stove cooled, and the batter began to ooze. “The batter was running everywhere,” she said, laughing. She didn’t want her parents to know what happened, because of the sugar ration during WWII, so she quickly cleaned the oven, and...
Faye (Stevens) Christofferson of the Kenilworth area recalls needing to do 5 different things at 10 different places at the same time while harvesting with her husband Orval in the mid 1960’s. She says she has no idea how she, “ever did that with a tiny baby and two toddlers!” Faye and Orval often travelled to a place near Tiber Dam, where Orval’s brother farmed. They harvested there, as well as harvesting their own crop in Big Sandy. Over the years the Christoffersons piled up lots of beautiful wheat and many family milestones. Tammy was bor...
I used to spend the long dusty days of harvest in the stifling cab of an old Ford grain truck. To help pass the time I would daydream about supper, which my mother-in-law would bring out to the field. Perhaps we would have garden lettuce with sweet cream dressing, 'cukes and onions in vinegar, or string beans with butter. It could be Hunter's Stew, Beef Stroganoff, or BBQ ribs. Would she bring rhubarb upside-down cake, apple pie, angel food slices with lemon icing? There might be Flathead...
