"Judy Haffner" > wrote in message
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>
> Cheri wrote:
>
>>I used to love bananas and cream with
>> sugar sprinkled on when I was a kid.
>> Hadn't thought of it in years.
>
> Same here, Cheri! Every now and then, when I go to slice a banana to put
> in with my Corn Flakes, I still think back to that tasty treat, but I'd
> sure skip the sugar now!
>
> I guess what I remember the most from my childhood days, was the
> wonderful Hungarian Coffee Cake mom would make every Christmas Eve. I
> couldn't wait, as was the only time of the year she made that and her
> Swedish Coffee Cake also from yeast dough. She also made big fluffy
> raised doughnuts in the winter, when we were expecting company and the
> BEST fudge ever. It wasn't the overly-sweet chocolate chip-marshmallow
> creme stuff either, but was cooked on the stove. Dad and I loved it when
> it didn't quite harden up, and we could eat it with spoons off the
> dinner plate she poured it on to!
>
> Also in the summer we'd take dad's pickup and a rake and go over to
> Mendenhall Glacier and get chunks of ice that had fallen down into the
> water in front of the glacier. We'd bring them home and they'd make ice
> cream (no electric ice cream mixers back then..it was all done
> manually). I couldn't wait for it to thicken up because since I was an
> only child, I got to lick off the paddle. :-)
>
> Judy
>


It all sounds really good Judy. I remember when I was a kid, everything was
happening at the Grange Hall, dances, meetings etc. There was a woman named
Vi Hollis who made the most wonderful sheet type cake that she brought to
everything. I've never been able to duplicate it but I have great memories
of it. :-)

Cheri