dsi1 wrote:

> On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 1:07:19 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > Full of funny phrases too like 'beat the egg whites until they
> > submit to the Lord and make nice peaks' (sounds faintly blasphemous
> > now but must not have been percieved so at that time as it's in a
> > church cookbook).
>
> I dig that kind of talk!

LOL, I did too. Our grandparents and their parents had some pretty
different ways of expressing things.

Hw about 'Bring it to a slow simmer like you are walking a very old
dog'. Laughed at that one! It's actually on the back of a letter sent
back to my real grandmother (her's is on the flip side and it's the
depression so they reused the other side for a return letter).

Grandma was long gone before I was born but she had a beloved terrier
who they think lived to be near 30? Who knows but it was a referance
to the dog and a friend who would have known what that meant on making
a slow rise in temp to a low simmer.

I'm not sure what it was referring to as it is obviously in referal to
a previous letter.

Sadly, all those records are long gone now.