jmcquown wrote:
> "Kathleen" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> 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.)

I bought Gerber teething biscuits for my kids. They were a hard,
vaguely sweet cookie sort of thing that would dissolve, slowly and
messily, when gummed. But you still weren't ever supposed to leave a
teething baby unattended with one of them, for fear the child would
manage to gnaw off a chunk then choke on it.

Much as I love(d) my kids and my nephews, both then and now, I don't
miss that stage. That was just gross. On more than one occasion I've
stripped a baby down to a diaper, fed lunch with the dogs hovering below
like pilot fish, then carried baby, high chair and all, into the shower
stall in the bathroom to be hosed down with the body shower.

And my husband is famous for his "90 second baby bath in the kitchen
sink with the vegetable sprayer" routine.