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U.S. Janet B.

On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:33:50 -0400, wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:13:31 -0700, U.S. Janet B. >
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:33:45 -0400, wrote:
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>>snip
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>>>I am off to the grocery store presently and now I absolutely have to
>>>have some oxtail! I don't care if people in NA don't eat it, when we
>>>came here 50 years ago they didn't and the butcher would just give you
>>>some, same with nice marrow soup bones, now they are an item and
>>>expensive
>>
>>I have recipes from my mother that start with 'ask the butcher for a
>>nice soup bone.'
>>Janet US
>
>Lol, a lot of my grandmothers say 'Tell the butcher' but the one I
>liked best was from about 1920 and a recipe for chutney. Daring in
>those days it had garlic in it, her note at the end said "I always add
>much more garlic, the boys don't care too much for it so they don't
>take as much" - a consideration with eight sons.

My mother knew salt and pepper and onion, no garlic. I discovered so
much after I left home

Janet US