Hey ya'll! It's time to make the Graber Family Cookbook a reality. I talked to Pops, Mamaw and Ruth and they all said that it's fine for me to go ahead and get the ball rolling. I'm not "making" the cookbook, I'm just helping the family get it done. :-) The cookbook is going to include food-related memories shared by the family. So I guess we'll start with Christmas! Post your fond food-related memories of our family's Christmas's, please. Keep it short, like a paragragh. Thanks! Make it fun and be nice!
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Would it help if the Christmas menu was listed? Ya'll should know what we eat at Christmas! I guess any fun Christmas memories can be shared as long as you also mention food somewhere.
ReplyDeleteOk, the deadline to post your memory is next weekend. If ya'll don't post by then, I'm going to let Timothy write it for you! Haha! ;-)
ReplyDeleteSorry it took me so long. I have one memory about buck-eyes.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas we have a long standing tradition that you can have as many buck-eyes as you want on Christmas day. Well, the Christmas when I was twelve is still burned in my mind as both great joy and great tragedy. On Christmas Eve we always open presents from non-family members. That year I got "The Chronicles of Narnia"! I had been wanting this for quite some time. I could hardly sleep that night. The next morning first thing I was reading those books. I hardly even stopped to open presents! I read four books that day and started the fifth. It wasn't until the next day that I realized I hadn't eaten a single buck-eye! But it was too late. Christmas Day was over.
Mom's Memory
ReplyDeleteThe winter of 1983 had been a rather harsh one for us. The Michigan winter was cold and snowy and work hard to pick up after the crops were harvested.
Uncle Ora had decided that instead of giving us back the money and paying us for all the time Dad had invested in the Graber Genealogy book he would just store all the leftover and extra boxes in our spare bedroom.
We had harvested a bountiful garden crop and our cellar room was full of vegetables- potatoes, squash, pumpkins, onions and hundreds of quarts of canned fruits and vegetables but we had no money to buy extras like butter, sugar, etc.
On Christmas Eve I was trying to figure out how I could make Christmas Day Dinner seem special when Jr Troyers drove in. Dad had worked for them in the fall.
They had two big bags full of groceries and some presents for Ruth & Joseph (can't remember if they brought anything for Baby Rachel). Jr. thought is was hilarious how carefully they unwrapped the presents which were two little books.
I could hardly wait till they left so I could look through the bags. There was all kinds of good stuff in there, I can't remember what all but I almost cried when I found some real butter and red & green jello. I had no recipe for ribbon salad so I just made a layer of green and then red jello in our glass cake pan and made real whipped cream with the cream skimmed off the raw milk they had brought us. And that was where the jello ribbon salad tradition was born and also the ham started I believe. Ruth especially just Oh'd and Ah'd over the beautiful ribbon salad, which made it so much more special.
Not really short. Sorry :(
My favorite food memory about Christmas is waking up on Christmas morning and eating oranges and grapefruits and cracking nuts... almonds, pecans, and hazelnuts were my favorites, with an occasional Brazil nut or English walnut, which were Dad's favorites, the English walnuts. In later years we would buy a whole bag of the English walnuts just for him! But the oranges and nuts were so special to me,especially the nuts. And I especially remember Dad cracking nuts and making me try new ones and there would be nut shells everywhere by the time we were done!
ReplyDeleteBuckeyes and Rocky Road Candy definitely my favorite and Dorcas I believe that is the saddest thing I have heard today....
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