The Lutheran Review

Memory of a Cookbook

My home church, Christ Lutheran, Pipe Lake, produced a cookbook in 1949. We used this cookbook at home throughout the 1950’s. The recipes produced good, hearty and tasty, if not the most healthful, eating.

The cookbook is also a reflection of the times. The foreword contains an Ode to a housewife.

To love and honor are okay,

And one might promise to obey;

But what makes wives turn slowly gray

Is what to cook each blessed day?

Each section begins with a bit of poetry. For instance the bread recipe section leads off with,

A slice of bread with butter on’t

May feed a king;

A biscuit with crust upon’t

Is comforting.

The very day necessities, no doubt,

Are those which none of us can do without.

I could not find the source for the above either in Bartlett’s or by Googling.

An advertisement for Swans Down cake flour pictured a cake and proclaimed, “This man-dazzler shows you why more women choose Swans Down than any other packaged cake flour.”

Hobby

Working out is a hobby my father and I share in common.  My love for walking was started at a young age when my pops and I would take long walks around the neighborhood.  Now, with two kids of my own I am teaching them how being outside and walking is one of the best things one can do for their general well-being. 

When the weather is decent, and my defintion of decent is pretty broad (anything over 45, no wind), I will take the kids in my double jogger for a 4 mile walk.  I speed walk.  I used to be runner, but um, yea pushing a double jogger with two 25 pound kids is not easy.  When I don't walk outside, I either go to the health club or workout at home.  Twelve minutes of marching in place fast with a couple jogs is a mile.  I lost a lot of baby weight knowing that little fact.  I keep a few free weights at home as well.  My new favorite arm workout is doing 100 front punching jabs with 2 pound weights. 

I don't usually take our dog, but my husband was with that day this pic was taken.