From Grandma's Collection of Recipes - Black's Store Era

A few Beverage Recipes

 

Spiced Tea

8 Cups Boiling Water
1 1/2 Table Spoon Tea
2 Cups Cornsyrup
1/2 Teas. Alspice
3 Mint Leaves
Three fourth Cup Orange Juice
1/2 Cup Lemon Juice
Crushed Ice:

Pour water over tea
Add corn syrup, alspice & mint
Let steep 5 min. Strain,
Add orange & Lemon juice
Pour over ice & garnish with
clove studded lemon slices
& fresh mint.

Punsh

1 LARGE CAN ORANGE JUICE
1 LARGE CAN GR. FRUIT JUICE
1  LARGE CAN PINEAPPLE JUICE
2 BOTTLE (1 PT. 8 OZ SIZE) GINGERALE
MAKES ABOUT 40 GLASSES.

Home Made TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL

Tomatoes (1 qt home canned)
Lemon (juice of 1, stained )
Worcestershire sauce (1/2 tsp.)
Celery seed (1/4 tsp.)
Salt to taste
Sugar (1/2 tsp.)

Put through a fine sieve. Mix Chill, and serve cold. Or heat to bubbling an serve hot.

Lemonade

Lemonade has its interesting variations. To 3 pints of lemonade add 2 cups of pineapple juice, ginger ale or grape juice, or instead add 2 cups of strawberries and raspberries.

#102 to #125 Of Grandma's Gems

More of Grandma's Gems

102. The grass withereth
The flower fadeth
But the word of God
Shall stand forever

103. Our pleasures are like
Poppies spread.
You seize the flower.
it's bloom is shed
Or like the snowfall in the river
A moment white
Then melts for-ever.

104. I wish you health
I wish you wealth
I wish you gold in store
I wish you heaven after death
What could I wish you more.

105. Winter, Spring, Summer
Fall. May God be with
You and love you all.

106. When I write this verse
And close for the end
Remember you have
One true friend.

107. I've seen the sea
I've seen the lake
When you have a chill
Be sure you shake

108. Kind words are the forest
Kind words are the deeds
But for pleasure you must
Reap loves seeds.

109. As sure as a vine grows
Around a stump
You shall be my sugar-lump.

110. Some write for honor
Others for fame
I write simply
For to sign my name.

111. When I'm dead and in my grave
And the weeping willows
over me wave
It is then dear friend and
never before
that I will thin of thee no more

112. For-get-me-not
Forget-me-never
until the sun
Has set forever.

113. To do the duty nearest thee
And strive to do it well
Is the only key to the mystery
Of life that I can tell.

114. Here is luck, to the duck
That swims on the pond
Stops and drinks
And then goes on.

115. Always remember and bear in mind
That a good true friend is hard
to find
When you've found one good and true.
Change not the old one for
the new.

116. Over and over again
No matter which way I turn
I always find in the book of life
Some lesson I have to learn.

117. How doth the busy little bee
Improve each shining hour
And gather honey every day.
From every opening flower.

118. Boys of spirit. boys of will
Boys of muscle brain and power
Fit to cope with anything
These are wanted every hour.

119. Though many miles apart
Our homes may prove to be
yet in the region of your heart
keep one kind thought for me.

120. Now lets have a game of play
Lucy, Jane, and little May.
I will be a grizzly bear
Growling hear, and Prowling there

121. Thirty days has September
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty one
Save February which alone
Hath twenty-eight
And one day more, we add
To it one year in four.

122. Boys are few
Girls are plenty.
Don't get married
Before you're twenty

123. Some love one
Some love two
I love one
And that is you.

124. Some love one
Some love twenty
I love one
And thats a plenty.

125. Ladies and gentlemen
Needles and pins
When a man marries
Trouble begins

#92 To #101 of Grandma Smith's Gems

More of Grandma's Gems

92. Lifes a mirror; if we smile
Smiles come back to greet us
If were frowning all the time
Frowns forever meet us.

93. A place in your autograph
for my name
A place for my love in your heart
A place for us both in heaven
Where true friends never part


94. When days are dark
And friends are few
Remember me and
I will you.

95. Remember me thy youthful (friend)
As oe'r this little page you bend
For you may never bend
another leaf
That here my name is
written in relief.

96. We can never be to careful
What seeds our hand may sow
Love from love is sure to ripen
Hate from hate is sure to grow.

For-get-me-not.

97. Be to your playmates kind
and true
Do them no hurt or harm.
As you would have them do to you
Do ye even so to them.

98. Learn to make pleasure
learn to be true
Always speak well
Of the girl that loves you.

100. Lives of great men all
remind us
We can make our lives
sublime
And departing leave
behind us
Foot-prints on the sands of time.

101. In the worlds broad field of battle
In the bivouac of life
Be not like dumb driven cattle
Be a hero in the strife.

More Memory Gems, Feb 20, 1904 and beyond

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Feb. 20, 1904

Memory gems

56. The world is round

And full of sin

Watch out young folk

Or you'll tumble in.
 

57. From north to south

From east to west

Youre are the one

I love the best.
 

58. Remember me early

Remember me late.

Remember me at

The golden gate.
 

59. As sure as a vine

Grows around the stump

You shall be my sugar lump.
 

60. A loving heart is

better than wealth.

(I've tried to reproduce Grandma's writings accurately, and with out corrections. Don't know what happened to 61-69)
 

70. When you get married

A broom to you I'll send.

In sunshine use the brush.

In storm the other end.

71. My love for you

will never fail

As long as pussy has a tail.
 

72. My love for you will always flow.

Like water down a potato row.
 

73. If you love me and I love you

No one can cut our love in two.
 

74. A merry heart is better than wealth.
 

75. Always remember and never forget

You have one friend

in Illinois yet.
 

76. If you should not be forgotten

As soon as youre dead and rotten

Do something worth writing

Or write something worth reading.
 

77. Apples are good

Peaches are better

If you love me

Answer my letter.
 

78. When you get old and ugly

As people sometimes do

Remember you have a friend

That is old and ugly too.
 

79. I love you little

I love you big

I love you like

A little fat pig.

 

 

80. May joy and pleasure

be your log

While through this world

You trot, trot, trot.

 

 

81. May your virtue live

And spread

Like butter on hot

Gingerbread.
 

82. When rocks and hill divide us

And you no more I see

Just take a pen and paper

And write a line to me.
 

83. I you go to a wedding

And they should have

nothing to eat.

Do not say anything

But hunt you a right good seat.

84. If wisdoms ways you wisely seek

Five things observed with care

Of whom you speak

To whom you speak and

How and when and where.

(Love this one!)
 

86. You I love, and shall forever

You may change, but I will never.
 

87. May you be happy.

May you be blest

In a neat little cottage

With the one you love best.

88. Strange friends, past

present, and to be

Loved deplier, darklier

understood

Behold I dream

a dream of good.

And mingle all the

world with thee.
 

89. This our hope for all thats mortal

And we too shall break the bond

Death keeps wath beside the portal

But 'tis life that dwells beyond.
 

90. When a man weds a grass widow

If his dingty you would lower

Just send as a wedding present

a second hand lawn mower.

(I take it in this context a "grass widow" is a divorced woman)
 

91. You may roam the plains of Kans.

Where the cyclones madly whirl

But you'll find theres none no better

Than the Edwards County girl.

More Memory Gems, Feb 20, 1904

More Memory Gems, Feb 20, 1904

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Feb. 20, 1904

Memory gems

49. Huffy is the old cat

Happy is the kitten

Happy is the pretty boy

Who never gets the mitten.

50. Marrying is the chain of life

Housekeeping is the lock

But kissing is the best part

A fellow ever got.

51. Be kind and be gentle

To those who are old

For kindness is better

Than silver or gold.

52. If life was a thing

That money could buy

The rich would live

And the poor would die.

53. Think of me now

Think of me ever

For-get-me-not

For-get-me-never.

54. The world is round

The sea is deep

And in your arms

I hope to sleep.

55. If my sweetheart you should be

Look at him and think of me.

Cooking Recipe

Cooking Recipe 

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Undated Clipping

 

(Grandma's note book contains several loose recipes clipped from newspapers. They don't usually include a date, just the recipe itself.)

This one is for

Escalloped Creamed Oysters

(serves 4)

4 tablespoons butter.

6 tablespoons flour.

2 cups milk.

1 1/2 pints small oysters.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

1/4 teaspoon pepper.

1 teaspoon chopped celery.

1 tablespoon chopped parsley.

2/3 cup cracher crumbs.

2 tablespoons butter, melted.

Melt the four tablespoons butter and add flour. when blended, add milk and cook until creamy sauce forms. Stir constantly. Add oysters and seasonings. Pour into buttered shallow baking dish and cover with crumbs mixed with melted butter. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Serve in dish in which baked.

(I tried this recipe in the toaster oven and it turned out quite well. I used 1/2 teaspoon of celery seed in place of the chopped celery because I didn't happen to have celery on hand, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of parsley flakes. I was expecting the taste to be a bit bland, but was pleasantly surprised.)

 

Continued: Verses with Picture

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Feb. 20, 1904

Continued: Verses

 

29.  Up the river and around the end.

My love for you

Will never end.

30.  Love no man not even your brother

If girls must love

Love one another.

31.  Long may you live

Happy may you be

Sitting on the doorstep

Thinking of me.

(This is my favorite. Grandma wrote it in my autograph book when I was about 8 years old. Wish I had taken it a bit more to heart!)

32.  Love many, trust few

And always paddle

your own canoe.

33.  Leaves may wither

Friends may die

They may forget you

but never will I.

34.  Cows like fodder

Sheep like hay.

Girls like hugging

On a very cold day.

35.  When you get old

And cannot see

Put on your specks

And think of me.

36.  When you go to a party

And don't get home till late

Remember it is bedtime

And don't hang on the gate.

37.  Tis sweet to love

But oh, how bitter

To love a girl

And then not get her.

38.  Remember me when far far off

And only half awake

Remember me on your wedding day

And send me a slice of cake.

39.  When you get married

And living at your ease

Remember I am single

And doing as I please.

40.  The taller the tree

The tougher the bark

The taller the girl

The harder to spark.

41.  Love your father. Love your mother.

Love your sister.

Love your Brother.

Love your books and love you toys

But never never love the boys.

     Blind Poets: Homer Assassin, John Milton

42.  If you have nothing
And you lover has nothing
Be not in a hurry to wed
For nothing plus nothing
Makes nothing
And nothing don't chew like bread.

43.  Roses are red
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.

44.  The grass is green
The violets blue
Remember me
And I will you.

45.  Where shall we meet love
And when shall it be
I never can live happy
When parted from thee.

(No 46)
47.  When you open this book
And this you see
Close it again and think of me.

48.  When the golden sun is setting
And your mink from care is free
When of absent friends you're thinking

Will you sometimes think of me.

Verses

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Feb. 20, 1904

Verses

(I know that autograph books were very popular when my Grandma Smith was young. I've seen several of them over the years, even had a couple when I was a kid. I love the many cute 'verses' people chose to put into each other's memory books and class albums. This one seems kind of sad as I read it now.)

21.  Remember me when this you see;

You may see this and not see me.

But if the grave should be my bed

Remember me when I am dead.

(I remember...)

22.  When you see a frog sitting on a tree knock it off

And think of me.

23.  Remember me early
Remember me late

Remember me on your wedding day

And send me a piece of cake.

24.  Our lives have budded on earth

May they blossom in heaven.

25.  When your school days here on earth are parted

The happiest to you given

May you pass away from the schools of earth

And graduate in heaven.

26.  Live to make life grand and noble.

Live to make it grand and true.

Labor to act your own part bravely.

Learn to think and learn to do.

27.  My pen is poor

My ink is pale

My hand shakes

Like a little dogs tale.

28.  Always remember and do not forget

The brown eyed girl

that loves you yet.

    Myrtle Galbreath

Continued "Memory Gems" Feb 20, 1904

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Continued "Memory Gems" Feb 20, 1904

17. We judge ourselves by whe we think we are capable of doing
While others judge us
By what we have done.  Henry Longfellow

18. Oh what a tangled we we weave
When first we practice to deceive.  Tennyson

19.  I would rather be right than President.  J. A. Garfield

20. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers:
But error wounded withers in pain
and dies amid her worshipers.  Bryant

Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK: Post #1

What wonderful memories I have of my Grandma Smith, a no-nonsense kind of woman who wore a house dress with an apron to wipe her hands on and clunky ‘grandma shoes’. I remember her as incredibly patient and immeasurably kind.

She made oatmeal in a large cast iron skillet in the winter and set it outside the back door for the neighborhood cats so they would have a warm meal on a cold morning.

She baked awesome pies in an oven gadget that set on top of a stove burner (presumably the oven didn’t work), fried crisp golden chicken on Sunday, and made gravy that turned mashed potatoes into love/comfort/happiness on a fork.

Jennetta Balding was born on 16 March, 1887 in the Black Store area of Edwards County. She was one of 12 children and the twin sister of Annetta who married Sam Ahfield and had a large family of her own.

As my mom, Jennetta’s youngest daughter remembers the story, with so many kids at home they took advantage of any opportunity to get out of the house whenever they could. Jennetta stayed with people in their homes and “nursed” them when they were sick, which is just one of the many little connections I have found between Grandma and me.

She met Herman Smith at a community dance, and married on December 19^th, 1908, when she was twenty one. Herman and Jennetta had three daughters, Frieda (Thread), Carrie (Markman) and later, when the older girls were in their teens, Irma (Cowling). They farmed most of their life together. She had huge gardens, and raised chickens and hogs. On Market Day, she took her eggs and cream into to town and “traded” at Stewarts Groceries. During the summer Grandma canned and preserved garden produce for winter use.

She liked to use lye soap and was still making it in a kettle in the back yard when I was a little girl.

Grandma taught me to sew a little by helping me cut some quilt squares and make a quilt for a doll be. When it was ready, she quilted it for me on a treadle sewing machine, and let me work the foot treadle.

How ever ‘rose colored’ my memory is, this is how I see Grandma Smith. I only knew her from a young child’s perspective; she died when I was 19, but had been in a nursing home with severe strokes for several years before that. I always picture her standing in the kitchen, sitting in front of her quilting frame or in the garden with Grandpa.

While helping my mother sort through her things in preparation for a move, we came across an old scrap book of Jennetta’s.  It’s a narrow, brown “Standard bound Note Book” filled with clippings, handwritten recipes and copies of song lyrics and poetry.

The first few pages are records of sales and dated 1875 and 1876. Her name, in many cases written over the sales figures is her maiden name, Jennetta Balding. It looks like the book was only slightly used, and then handed over to Jennetta. After a few pages of sales figures a page is headed March 13, 1904, three days before her 17^th birthday. It reads “My time for sweeping church

1. April 3-1904

2. April 24-1904

3. May 13-1904…”

Perhaps she was given the ledger to keep track of her time when she started sweeping at the church.

The next page is dated Feb 20, 1904 and is titled “Memory Gems”. From there every page is filled top to bottom and front to back with poetry, quotes, song lyrics, recipes and useful information. The last page is dated 1946 and has a recipe for “cold mixed relish” written on it. The pages are also tucked full of clipped recipes, pamphlets and circulars.

This is my reproduction of her scrapbook/cookbook; and my way of reconnecting and staying connected to my Grandma after all the years.

Memory Gems, Feb 20, 1904

From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK

Feb. 20, 1904

Memory gems

I.              An honest man is the noblest work of god. Pope

II.             A little learning is dangerous thing.

Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring

Their shallow droughts intoxicate the brain.

       But drinking deeply

       Will sober us again. W. Shakespeare

III.            He is richest who is contented with the least

For content is the wealth of nature.  Socrates

IV.          If a task once begun

Never leave it till it’s done

Be the labor great or small

Do it well or not al all.  Alice Cary

V.           Leaves have their time to fall

And flowers to wither at the northwinds call;

And stars to set

But thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death.  Mrs. Fellecia Hermans