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Ingredients: Herman's favorite cake or pie were made with coconut. He loved it!
Anna always made fruit salad for Christmas or other special family meal. It was made with a combination of apples, oranges, grapefruit and grapes or whatever fruit in season was available. (And maybe some coconut added!)
Anna would make 5 loaves of bread at a time, using everlasting yeast (sour dough mix) and was a real treat for the kids after they walked home from school.
Sauerkraut was not a favorite of Herman's, but Anna made it anyway so not to waste preserving all her cabbage.
A supper favorite was a big pan of cornbread served with sorghum molasses or syrup. Herman loved sorghum molasses and still used it when I visited Grandma and Grandpa. I remember a can of it in the pantry.
They had a 50 lb. ice chunk delivered to keep food cold in their icebox and dried fruit like apples and pears for winter by spreading the slices out on the roof of house on bed sheets and covering all with bed sheets. Ione also remembered picking apples and making lots of pies!
They grew geese for the down to use in pillows and chickens were grown for eggs and Sunday dinner. Usually, the family ate chicken in the summer. In the spring, they would get chicks and the old hens were gradually eaten.
Butchering was done in cool weather with the help of family or neighbors to help process the cuts of meat. Pork cuts like hams and bacon were hung up in the smokehouse and Anna would clean the intestines to make sausage that was preserved in crocks and covered with lard from the hogs. Lard was also kept in crocks that were kept in the cellar. (Ione loved the sausage that Anna made but she did not like the head cheese.)
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