Subj : PB & Cookies
To : Dale Shipp
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Aug 02 2022 14:11:59
Hi Dale,
RH> With 5 kids, my parents economised big time on school lunches. The
RH> majority of the time it was (smooth) pb with cheap jelly (not jam) on
RH> white bread. Before sandwich bags were invented, my mom would put a
RH> cookie on top of the sandwich and wrap it in wax paper. By lunch time,
RH> the cookie had absorbed moisture from the bread and was soggy; the
RH> sandwich had a big stale spot in the middle from the cookie. Turned me
RH> off from pb&j by the time I hit first grade but had to endure it until
RH> senior year when I got to buy lunch. By the time I got to high school,
RH> sandwich bags had come out so mom would fold in the flap, then put the
RH> cookie on top of that. Didn't make a whole lot of difference as
RH> usually the cookie overlapped the flap enough to soak up moisture from
RH> the bread.
DS> I knew that your dislike of PB came from its constant presence in your
DS> school lunches, but I did not recall the part about the cookie. I
DS> presume you have gotten over your dislike for stale bread and cookies?
DS> :-}}
Stale bread gets made into bread crumbs if it's my home made bread (not
bought any crumbs in decades). The cookie, even soggy, and the small
piece of candy were the only things that made lunch time worth its
while. We might occaisionally get a piece of fruit but standard dessert
was cookie and candy. My folks did that at home for lunch time dessert,
up until the times they moved into nursing homes.
Looks good--one of the men in our American Legion (also medically
retired from FDNY) makes this from time to time for our pot lucks. He
puts thin sliced lemon in it, don't remember if he does mushrooms or not
but it is really good. (G)
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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