This is my all time favourite letter from my great aunt, because of the line “I’m attempting to cook a jack rabbit.” I just can’t imagine, having grown up on an extension of the same farm, what it would be like to live at home in my early twenties and to have my dad deposit…
I wonder who Eva was, and what the story behind this ice cream recipe is. I’m not sure whose handwriting this is, or from what year. It was written in blue pen. I’ve never made ice cream, though I know lots of people today have ice cream makers and make their own. It’s so convenient…
I wonder how many recipes our families got from places like these 1960s Union Gas bills? I found quite a stack of these recipes, as well as others copied from magazines and newspapers, in among the old papers. I wonder if great grandmother tried out the Chili Con Carne in 1962 or the Cherry Loaf…
Have you ever tried making soap? My great grandmother (Mary Luella Kimmerly) had this recipe for soap from a relative, E. A. Kimmerly.
When my dad was 10 years old, he was hit by a car. I remember asking him about it fairly often as a child, though it is hard for him to remember very many details of that day. I do have his grandmother’s account of the day from this journal on April 30, 1956: “Allan…
