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MY FAMILY

Hard boiled eggs were pickled in beet juice and vinegar. They
turned pink. They loved beets. It was one of their main
‘Victory Garden’ crops. The greens would be tossed into the

salads, or cooked. Salad dressings often were oil and vinegar,
and the greens would be splashed with vinegar.

All summer long Mom would peel and slice cucumbers and
onions for a salad. She made a mixture of vinegar, water, and
sugar for them. It would stay in the fridge all summer, as she
would continue to add cucumbers and onions.

There were other German foods that Pop liked. One was a
gelatin with mixed things from a pig, their feet, intestines, and
other parts. All were suspended in this clear gelatin, called
‘Soucse’. And of course it was kept in a vinegar solution.
The worst of all refrigerator things was Pop’s cheese. He
loved soft cheese, and the best was Limburger. This cheese
was so soft it couldn’t hold it’s shape. He kept it in one of my
empty ‘Skippy’ jars. It would slither like a snake into the
bottom and spread out. When he opened the jar the heavenly
smell, like a barnyard, would waft through the air of the
apartment for hours. We would all leave. I never ever took
even one bite.

We often had buckwheat pan cakes or waffles with
Pennsylvania maple syrup. I never knew any other kind of
syrup. But, Pop had one other ‘Dutch’ treat. A loaf we ate for
breakfast. It was ‘Scrapple’, a delightful mushed up mixture of
pork things, cornmeal, buckwheat flour and spices. Sort of like

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