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Notes: As noted in other recipes, I grew up in the oral, hands on cooking tradition but as a homemaker my horizons expanded to searching in magazines and cookbooks for recipes suited to feed a growing family of 4 children and the inevitable hired man or two who shared our dinner table. These meals tended to follow the nutritional theories of the 40’s and 50’s and would be considered pretty heavy by today’s thinking. As my children left home and I became more “footloose and fancy free” I did more cooking for myself and for entertaining rather than just feeding the family.
After graduation from Manilla High School in 1939 I longed for a college degree. In High School I had taken “Normal Training” which prepared me to teach elementary school. I was qualified upon graduation from High School but because I graduated at the age of 16, I was below the legal age to teach. Accordingly, in the 1940-1941 school year, after turning 18 during the summer, I had my first teaching assignment.
Les and I married May 17, 1942 and my teaching days were over until my children were in school. When I went back to the classroom as a teacher I also returned as a student and went to work on courses at Drake University. My good friend and school teaching colleague Beulah Lucas and I were commuting to classes to earn our college degrees and, in fact, each of us received our Bachelor of Arts from Drake University on the same night in 1966. On those long drives we had time to share many things including recipes and Beulah shared with me her recipe for this Olive Nut Spread.
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