-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 06-18-19  12:51 <=-

 RH>>> Just to refresh your memory of the taste?
 NB>>> Something like that...   Had a bit of each the other day...
 NB>>> definitely different tastes, but each has something to commend
 NB>>> itself... might be useful to have both on hand for various
 NB>>> uses...   But I still think that if I had to choose just one,
 NB>>> it would be the yogurt one... 
 RH>> Tough decision to make but it sounds like the yogurt one has a
 RH>> slight edge over the other one.
 NB>> Yup.    At least for now... 

 RH> Tastes suject to change over time?

Always that chance.... 
 
 RH>> My mom did liver in the fry pan, coated the stuff with flour,
 RH>> salt & pepper. Then she'd fry up 7 strips of bacon--we all got
 RH>> one--for the fat to cook the liver in. I don't remember if she
 RH>> let us have ketchup with it or not--would have improved the
 RH>> taste if we did have it.
 NB>> We didn't have it with ketchup... nor with bacon... Bacon was
 NB>> more of a luxury around our house....

 RH> It was a treat for us too. Had BLTs in the summer but only one strip
 RH> of bacon per sandwich. Mom always got the cheap stuff with a lot of fat
 RH> so by the time it was cooked, it had shriveled quite a bit.

That's not much bacon per sandwich... I suppose the L and T were fresh
from the garden....?

 RH>> We went to my grandparents (mom's folks) for Thanksgiving; they
 RH>> came up to our place for Christmas. Had turkey for the former,
 RH>> ham for the latter until Mom started working. Then she bought
 RH>> goose, a traditional German meat but fixed it like turkey,
 RH>> including all the normal turkey sides. She also did ham for Sunday
 RH>> dinner off and on, on an irregular basis so it really wasn't a
 RH>> treat for Christmas.
 NB>> We never did goose...   Turkey was mostly for large family get
 NB>> togethers, we also did it for Christmas sometimes... 

 RH> Goose is the traditional Christmas dinner in Germany. It's not as
 RH> meaty as turkey so we didn't have umpteen days of left overs.

We didn't have all that much leftover... especially if we had extra
family around.... 
 
 NB>> I'm thinking ham was somewhat special in our house, but not saved
 NB>> for particular holidays, just not had very often...

 RH> Ham was one thing that my mom could do reasonably well--she just
 RH> studded it with cloves. No brown sugar glaze or pineapple rings but
 RH> still tasted good. She never made ham gravy either--had that for the
 RH> first time at a friend's house while in college.

Never had ham gravy... We did the studding with cloves, and generally
the pineapple, sometimes the rings, sometimes crushed pineapple....

 NB>>> anything along with the ones in the Rochester area, that might
 NB>>> have been a chance to have met one or two of them, though....
 RH>> Some of us went to RIT for Bible study with NTID students.
 NB>> But that could be another possibility, if there were any non-NTID
 NB>> RIT students also involved in that Bible study...

 RH> Mostly hearing impaired as I recall, plus students from Roberts and
 RH> Houghton. Co-ordinator was an interpreter at NTID and pastor for the
 RH> deaf at Bethel Assemblies of God church in Rochester.

Ah...  well, not that likely you would have run into my siblings there,
either, then...  My sister Tait did learn sign, and might have been a
part of that sort of bible study, though... 

ttyl       neb

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