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MY FAMILY

years, well into my 20’s before I realized there were other
things to eat. I finally discovered the joy of ‘sauces’ a secret
my father never kept from me, but I never realized. He would
eat anything with a sauce. I believe he liked the sauces better
than the food. Especially the seafood like clams, oysters,
herring or sardines.

But, maybe that’s just my point of view. Ugh.
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During the 40’s sweets were not straight sugar like the 21
century. They were usually mixed into different deserts, like
pies. Most foods neither had a lot of salt nor sugar. It would
be later from the 1950’s that canned and packaged products
added all the sugar and maybe salt.

My favorite of all foods was cherry pie; not meat which was
always over cooked. We’d pick sour, red cherries when in
Potterville in late June. A funny thing about cherries. If you
pitted them as you picked they never filled the bucket. If you
just threw them into the bucket, you could pick several
buckets. Pick and pit worked best because it was one time,
instead of two. After picking them you still had to pit them
when it was time to use them to bake.
Apple pies were always good. Grandma Williams had an
orchard out back with Northern Spies. Mom’s favorite apple.
My favorite fruits were Cherries, but Blackberries, and
Huckleberries were great. Grandma would make pies from
them all year, as after picking they would be kept in the cool

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