-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 06-27-19  14:31 <=-

 RH>> It was a treat for us too. Had BLTs in the summer but only
 RH>> one strip of bacon per sandwich. Mom always got the cheap
 RH>> stuff with a lot of fat so by the time it was cooked, it had
 RH>> shriveled quite a bit. 
 NB>> That's not much bacon per sandwich... I suppose the L and T
 NB>> were fresh from the garden....?

 RH> Correct. Dad never could get the bacon to grow successfully. (G)

Just couldn't find good bacon seeds, I suppose.... (G)
 
 NB>>> I'm thinking ham was somewhat special in our house, but not
 NB>>> saved for particular holidays, just not had very often...
 RH>> Ham was one thing that my mom could do reasonably well--she
 RH>> just studded it with cloves. No brown sugar glaze or pineapple
 RH>> rings but still tasted good. She never made ham gravy either--
 RH>> had that for the first time at a friend's house while in college.
 NB>> Never had ham gravy... We did the studding with cloves, and
 NB>> generally the pineapple, sometimes the rings, sometimes crushed
 NB>> pineapple....

 RH> It's easy enough to do---and beats plain mashed potatoes which was the
 RH> usual side (also some other vegetable, but always the plain potatoes)
 RH> with it.

I don't envy you that side dish... We so rarely had mashed potatoes...
usually potatoes were either is stew, or quartered/eighthed and boiled
with skin still on...  
 
 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
 NB>>> non-NTID RIT students also involved in that Bible study...
 RH>> Mostly hearing impaired as I recall, plus students from Roberts
 RH>> and Houghton. Co-ordinator was an interpreter at NTID and pastor
 RH>> for the deaf at Bethel Assemblies of God church in Rochester.
 NB>> Ah...  well, not that likely you would have run into my siblings
 NB>> there, either, then...  My sister Tait did learn sign, and might
 NB>> have been a part of that sort of bible study, though... 

 RH> Possibly so; IIRC, we met on Wednesday nights in one of the dorm
 RH> lounges.

If I think of it, I'll ask her if she was part of that.... 

ttyl        neb

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