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Heritage Stories

More than pickles: Grandma Taylor’s red cinnies

May 7, 2010

By Melissa Taylor Summertime is a child’s paradise filled with  outdoors playing, picnics, and, for the Taylor family, Grandma NoNo’s famous pickles. All of Mary Etta Taylor’s grandchildren could not wait to harvest their vegetables from the garden. Each child was given a special section to grow cucumbers or a crop of choice. After what [...]

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Corn tortillas past and present

May 7, 2010

By Carolyn Hollis More than 10,000 years ago before stoves and frying pans, Aztecs were grinding corn into masa to make tortillas. They added water to the meal to create thick dough for corn tortillas. Then they rolled the dough into balls, flattened and cooked them. Today, corn tortillas are prepared much the same ways. [...]

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Family food heritage? Call it ‘military’

May 7, 2010

By Carolyn Hollis What if you had no family food heritage? You had nothing specific, or certain, just a few casseroles, desserts, and imitations from recipes already known. What if your family never stayed in one state to call it, “southern style,” or “western crop?” Instead, you gathered recipes here and there, created your own [...]

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Depression era cake: eggless, butterless, milkless

May 7, 2010

By Elizabeth Gittemeier Lillian Gittemeier raised her family on a small chicken farm in Bowling Green, Mo., during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She loved her family and raised them all with a strong work ethic. Throughout the Great Depression she sold all of the eggs from her chickens and used the money to [...]

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Brisketman keep recipe in safe but will divulge this one

May 7, 2010

By Katie George Hundreds of people in more than 20  states feast on Lee’s brisket—yet only one person knows the recipe. “I have the recipe written down in a locked safe,” said Lee Biery, owner of Lee’s Country Market. Lee Biery started his brisket business in the back of his rural grocery store in Clyde, [...]

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Grant family cornbread: Simple meals for tough times

May 7, 2010

By Grant Guggisberg In rural Oklahoma, the Grant family only knew one thing, and that was how to work. Abandoned by her husband, Ila Maude Grant was left to care and provide for five children during one of the most destitute times in American history, the Great Depression. They all worked hard in the corn [...]

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McKibbens potato salad: produce of rich family history

May 7, 2010

By Erin White 1882 was a year of historical markers: the infamous Jesse James was killed, the immigration act was put into place, and the Knights of Columbus was established. However, many less prominent events occurred as well, including the birth of Malcolm McKibben. Malcolm McKibben’s mother and father homesteaded in northern Hodgeman County since [...]

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