I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time) woman who came
daily.

Shame on me I don't know how she spelled her name - it was pronounced Eara
as in ear-a.

I remember her kindness and size. I remember she was about as wide as she
was tall.

Our favorite, like many kids were her scratch pancakes and the hamburgers
served on home made biscuits. Damn if I could taste them today.

What great memories of times gone by.

YOU? if you had a cook/cleaning lady -your favorites?

Dimitri

On 2010-03-24, Dimitri > wrote:
> I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time)....

She changed color, later?

nb

"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> On 2010-03-24, Dimitri > wrote:
>> I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time)....
>
> She changed color, later?
>
> nb


Of course.


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In article >,
"Dimitri" > wrote:

> I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time) woman who came
> daily.
>
> Shame on me I don't know how she spelled her name - it was pronounced Eara
> as in ear-a.
>
> I remember her kindness and size. I remember she was about as wide as she
> was tall.
>
> Our favorite, like many kids were her scratch pancakes and the hamburgers
> served on home made biscuits. Damn if I could taste them today.
>
> What great memories of times gone by.
>
> YOU? if you had a cook/cleaning lady -your favorites?
>
> Dimitri

Mom. :-)
Her creamed corn sourdough waffles, her camping food (trout with bacon,
eggs and biscuits), her sourdough pancakes, fresh ground raw beef with a
little salt while she was grinding it, bacon wrapped eye of round roast,
BBQ'd, her BBQ'd chicken marinade recipe......

and so much more.

A lifetime of memories. :-)
--
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"We're all adults here, except for those of us who aren't." --Blake Murphy

On Mar 24, 9:10*am, "Dimitri" > wrote:
> I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time) woman who came
> daily.
>
> Shame on me I don't know how she spelled her name - it was pronounced Eara
> as in *ear-a.
>
> I remember her kindness and size. I remember she was about as wide as she
> was tall.
>
> Our favorite, like many kids were her scratch pancakes and the hamburgers
> served on home made biscuits. Damn if I could taste them today.
>
> What great memories of times gone by.
>
> YOU? *if you had a cook/cleaning lady -your favorites?
>
> Dimitri

didn't have any outside help at my house, but it seems to me that back
in the day, poor folks, ate all parts of the critters, not just the
outside parts, but the innards also, and made very tasty meals out of
what they used, i.e., schmaltz, kishka, chiopped liver, helzel,
herring in either wine or sour cream, etc., etc.(my eastern european
ancestors) and i'm sure other groups did the same with the use of
lard, greens, pinto beans/white beans/red beans, all parts of the the
pig & cow went into the kitchen for cooking. good menudo uses pata
(cow feet) as one of the ingredients along with the honeycomb tripe,
chicken soup needed the scraped feet for the gelatinous mouth feel.

harriet & critters (faddy tabby catty & ms tabby ann who now prances
on top of the bed instead of hiding under it)

In article
>,
"critters & me in azusa, ca" > wrote:

> didn't have any outside help at my house, but it seems to me that back
> in the day, poor folks, ate all parts of the critters, not just the
> outside parts, but the innards also, and made very tasty meals out of
> what they used, i.e., schmaltz, kishka, chiopped liver, helzel,
> herring in either wine or sour cream, etc., etc.(my eastern european
> ancestors) and i'm sure other groups did the same with the use of
> lard, greens, pinto beans/white beans/red beans, all parts of the the
> pig & cow went into the kitchen for cooking. good menudo uses pata
> (cow feet) as one of the ingredients along with the honeycomb tripe,
> chicken soup needed the scraped feet for the gelatinous mouth feel.
>
> harriet & critters (faddy tabby catty & ms tabby ann who now prances
> on top of the bed instead of hiding under it)

Mom never wasted anything edible. And I'm glad to read that Tabby Ann
has adjusted!
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critters & me in azusa, ca wrote:

>
> didn't have any outside help at my house, but it seems to me that back
> in the day, poor folks, ate all parts of the critters, not just the
> outside parts, but the innards also, and made very tasty meals out of
> what they used,


My parents owned a small grocery store before the days of supermarkets.
We ate whatever didn't sell. Sometimes it was chicken, sometimes
sirloin tips, chuck pot roasts or stews. No "innards", they weren't
included in the sides of beef or pork that were delivered to the store.

It was never spoiled, though, because my dad was a Depression kid and
picky about the quality of his food. Old produce and bread was disposed
of to friends who raised pigs, meat went into the covered "tallow
bucket" in the walk-in cooler for the guy who collected it weekly.

gloria p

On 3/24/2010 12:10 PM, Dimitri wrote:
> I have very fond memories of our Black (colored at the time) woman who
> came daily.
>
> Shame on me I don't know how she spelled her name - it was pronounced
> Eara as in ear-a.
>
> I remember her kindness and size. I remember she was about as wide as
> she was tall.
>
> Our favorite, like many kids were her scratch pancakes and the
> hamburgers served on home made biscuits. Damn if I could taste them today.
>
> What great memories of times gone by.
>
> YOU? if you had a cook/cleaning lady -your favorites?
>
> Dimitri

My late wife was my favorite black cook and house keeper... Will be
three years she's gone, put 'permanent' flowers on her marker yesterday.

--
regards, mike
piedmont, The Practical BBQ'r
http://sites.google.com/site/thepracticalbbqr/
(mawil55)

piedmont wrote:
>
> My late wife was my favorite black cook and house keeper... Will be
> three years she's gone, put 'permanent' flowers on her marker yesterday.

Sorry for your loss. But I think fake flowers are no rememberance at
all, better to have no flowers... plant a small flowering shrub.
perhaps choose one that flowers for her birthday or another of her
special times.

On 3/31/2010 10:40 AM, brooklyn1 wrote:
snip
> But I think fake flowers are no rememberance at
> all, better to have no flowers... snip

Brook..
You can come off sounding rude, how one honors a loved one need not be
dissected nor approved by others, a remberence just is..
It's a managed cemetery and you cannot do live plants, so they have
vase's that attach to the makers where you can place artificial flowers.
She loved gardening with all her heart so at the same time, I replanted
two spring flowering bulbs, one's that she planted at our home. I cut
the tops off and set the bulbs in the ground hoping at least next spring
they get by the care takers at least one spring.

--
regards, mike
piedmont, The Practical BBQ'r
http://sites.google.com/site/thepracticalbbqr/
(mawil55)