Hi Nancy,

 NB>  RH>> stuff with a lot of fat so by the time it was cooked, it had
 NB>  RH>> shriveled quite a bit.
 NB>  NB>> That's not much bacon per sandwich... I suppose the L and T
 NB>  NB>> were fresh from the garden....?

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

 NB> Just couldn't find good bacon seeds, I suppose.... (G)

No, I think it was more the Delaware County rocks. Always had a good
crop of them before anything else came in so I think the bacon didn't
have enough time to grow before frost hit.


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

 NB> I don't envy you that side dish... We so rarely had mashed potatoes...
 NB> usually potatoes were either is stew, or quartered/eighthed and boiled
 NB> with skin still on...

I did boiled potatoes (but had to peel them) a lot when I was cooking
for the family while Mom was in summer school. I prefer them to mashed
but most of the family prefers them mashed.


 NB>  NB>>>> anything along with the ones in the Rochester area, that might
 NB>  NB>>>> have been a chance to have met one or two of them, though....
 NB>  RH>>> Some of us went to RIT for Bible study with NTID students.
 NB>  NB>>> But that could be another possibility, if there were any
 NB>  NB>>> non-NTID RIT students also involved in that Bible study...
 NB>  RH>> Mostly hearing impaired as I recall, plus students from Roberts
 NB>  RH>> and Houghton. Co-ordinator was an interpreter at NTID and pastor
 NB>  RH>> for the deaf at Bethel Assemblies of God church in Rochester.
 NB>  NB>> Ah...  well, not that likely you would have run into my siblings
 NB>  NB>> there, either, then...  My sister Tait did learn sign, and might
 NB>  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.

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

Ask her if she knew Chip Green.


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