Tina.....Re: The knowledge of Sharon...

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Was it wrapped in cabbage leaves? SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. To: MSersLife Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:52 AMSubject: Re: The knowledge of Sharon...

My grandmother had a recipe for pigs in the blanket that was wonderful! Unfortunately, she didn't pass it down before she got sick with Alzheimers, so my sister and my cousin have been dutifully trying to get the recipe right for years!

Tina

This cookbook is from Elim Lutheran Church, in Fargo, North Dakota. We haven't cooked anything from it yet, only looked in it, but an overall impression is that many recipes contains pre-fabricated and/or canned goods that can be hard to come by outside of the US, I guess we'll have to concentrate on the other recipes. The cookie recipes, for instance, seem to more often be the "from scratch" kinds. We did learn that the "pigs in blankets"-dish is kind of close to what we'd call kåldolmar, at least when they are made with cabbage leaves and ground meat, as the one in this cookbook (according to Wikipedia most typical for Ohio, interestingly, since this cookbook is from North Dakota).

Cookbooks are interesting, as they show so much of history and culture.

Pixie is fine, she is in that age now when they really start to talk, and say the most interesting things, I'll post about that in a separate post. We are babysitting her tomorrow, and tomorrow night, as her mother got the opportunity to go see her favorite soccer team play in a Champions League game. That'll be interesting, we were thinking of taking her to the zoo, but perhaps we'll just stay in or go to the beach (depending on weather). I will try and find her a flashlight, because she was very intrigued by mine when I used it to look for something under a chest of drawers, she called it a "lamplight", and wanted to borrow it all the time...

love/Reb

>> I love it Reb! I love that my name came up in a second hand bookstore in Sweden:) What do you think of the cookbook you bough? My favorite church cookbook is from a Lutheran Church in Blue Earth, Minnesota. I have quite a few church and/or fundraising cookbooks and I bought most of them at second hand stores. I have used a lot of the recipes and some of the recipes have become our family recipes as a result.

> > > How is Pixie?> > > Sharon> This email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.

> > > > > ________________________________> To: MSersLife > Sent: Monday, August 1, 2011 1:39 PM

> Subject: The knowledge of Sharon...> > > > > > and I try to fit in one day (at least) with the second hand book sellers each vacation. Today was that day this year.

> > In one of the second hand book stores we visited today, was browsing the cookbook section, when she called out for me, that there was something I needed to see. Turned out she had found a couple of old American church cookbooks, and she said to me "church cookbooks, have you seen anything like that before?"

> I answered that no, I haven't actually seen one before, but [and filled in what I've learned from our Sharon, who is collecting them as I understand].> > said that "that's typical for the religious studies wizard that you are (relugious studies is my main field), just take anything loosely related to religious studies and you'll be able to tell the background story".

> > I had to tell her though...in this case it's not religious studies knowledge as much as it's Sharon from MSers Life knowledge...> > And yes, we did buy the cookbook...> > Love

> > /Reb>