LOTS AND LOTS OF HOMEMADE BREAD

Mom and Dad lived in a large old house in the Village. It had a huge kitchen with lots of cupboard space and enough pots and pans to cook all day and never use the same pot or dish twice; or so it seemed to anyone who was assigned kitchen duty.

Addie made excellent bread. For several years she made and sold donuts ,breads and pies to the "summer residents" who came from the city to their cottages nearby.


1 loaf of Bread
3 cups flour
1 cup water
1/4 tsp sugar
1/4 T butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 of a yeast cake


Dad was not concerned with the method.

There are two scraps of paper written in 

 Jack's handwriting One has the amount of ingredients necessary to make fourteen 20oz loaves of bread. The other with the amounts and cost to make one loaf. I don't know what Mom charged for a loaf of bread, but Dad was making sure that it covered the cost per loaf.

DUMPLINGS

The following was written on old paper in pen and ink. It looks like a fine point nib. One does not see many pen and ink documents these days.

The initials on the bottom of this piece of paper are S.H. , and I assume it would be Sarah Hutchins. Sarah and her husband Stan and three children lived on The East Road. Stan was a school bus driver for the Eastern Township School Board for many years..
When I showed this to Mom recently she said, "yes, Sarah was a good cook".
 Here is her recipe for dumplings.


2 cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp shortening
1 egg beaten light
About 3/4 cups milk
Sift together flour. B powder and salt. Cut in shortening, add part of the milk to the beaten egg then mix to dry ingredients. Add balance of milk as needed. Cook 15 minutes in stew, undisturbed with the cover on tight.

SPENDING TIME WITH ADDIE

• Adelaide Atkin on her 94th birthday.

INTRODUCTION

Anyone who spent time in Addie's kitchen knew two things for certain. One, she was an excellent cook; secondly, she was a collector. It would be impossible to count the cups of coffee and tea served to countless numbers of people, young and old, who sat at the kitchen table and became part of her tapestry of life.

While going through her collection of cookbooks and bits of paper I have found many copies of handwritten recipes from friends and relatives. One can tell a good cookbook by how well it appears to have been used. Splotches of grease and cake batter on the pages indicate the recipes were worth repeating. Moms' pages were well splattered.

I am going to include some of them here, and perhaps a few notes about the people. Who knows where this will take us.....come along for the ride.