Thursday, December 8, 2011

Grandma Halverson's little black book

Grandma Halverson had this small black book, smaller than a 3 x 5 index card. It is filled with a variety of items that she felt important including recipes, a couple of saying, chicken feed scratch, birthdays, anniversaries and addresses.

" A drinking driver never thinks. A thinking driver never drinks."

Jr. Graduate card: Here is what you have all ready done. And here's what you will do. On coming days as you work and plan to make your dreams come true. Congratulations. The world has need of a Graduate like you.

The Bean Sandwich Recipe:

Cover a slice of bread with butter. Cover with backed (baked) beans and on top put on grated cheese and bacon and back (bake) in oven about 350 and back (bake) till cheese is melted and bacon crisp.

Mom always added slices of sweet pickle and broiled the sandwich. When I started thinking about it, I realized that the cook stove that Grandma used probably didn't have a broiler. SO, I am concluding that Grandma Halverson either made the bean sandwich or just copied it in her little black book. I make one for myself every once in awhile. I know Joan and Den usually make them. Does anyone else carry on the tradition of the "Bean Sandwich".

Grandma's spelling wasn't the best. Backed for bake, Jone for Joan, Witch for which, etc. I sometimes wonder how much schooling she was able to have in her youth.

Witch 4 presedents were not citiciens of the United States: George Washington, Tomas Jeffersen, John Adams, James Monrow.

Fern's liscins on her Dodge 399-244 Minnesota

Recipe for Scratch feed for Little Chickens

20 lb. fineley cracked corn
20 lb. finely cracked wheat
10 lb. steel cut oats

1 comment:

Bob said...

We have the bean sandwich about ones a month. It is after we have had some doctored up bake beans (like Mom would do). Saw a receipe for the sandwich in a Zion cook book. One time Rosie's Mom and Dad were up for a visit and I said that we would have them for supper. Peg got all upset. Said she didn't drive up hear to eat beans. After he had them she would request them on return visits.

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