"Kathleen" > wrote in message
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> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> This one is attributed to my aunt Nadine McQuown (it's probably her
>> handwriting); she was married to my dad's older brother and died in 1980.
>> I don't bake pies and cakes, I'm just reporting recipes I found in that
>> old recipe box. Apparently people of that generation always baked pies
>> and cakes This is more 'fancy' than most of the things I've run
>> across in that recipe box. I have a few notations in brackets [ ].
>>
>> Pineapple Cheese Cake
>>
>> 1-3/4 c. Zwieback crumbs [I know what zwieback is but this struck me as
>> odd]
>
> <snip>
>
> Both of my grandmothers used the terms "zwieback" and "graham crackers"
> interchangeably.

That makes sense. Zwieback is a toddler's teething cracker. Maybe that's
what graham crackers were used for, too. (I still love graham crackers but
they aren't as hard as teething crackers used to be these days.)

Jill