![]() ![]() Tripe, tongue, heart, kidneys, sweetbreads. Taber quips: “In these days of powdered and liquid pectins anyone can make jelly out of anything except mashed potatoes.”įrom the Meats chapter, roasts, gravy, a roasting chart, a rolled rib roast with Yorkshire pudding “crusty and brown and rich with the drippings.” Pot roast, meat loaf, pan-broiled steak, stuffed pork chops, spare ribs, ham dumplings for meat stews. The latter includes how to make brandied peaches, tomato honey, pepper relish, pickled string beans, tomato catsup, jelly. Maybe it will inspire others into hauling out that old-fashioned picnic hamper to duplicate the outing.Ĭhapters include: Vegetables. Here is an excerpt: “…cold fried chicken in the basket for a hot August day” and a description of the ensuing picnic with accompaniments of “a tiny pot of honey and crisp potato chips and light rolls” as a group which includes the author sits by a “slow-flowing dusky river under trailing green willows”. The chapter on poultry may lead to salivating over the pages. Note the spaniel sign in front of the white fence. Out of the kitchen, author Gladys Taber at Stillmeadow. Taber's family and friends and neighbors are remembered their stories woven into her writing. On Pinterest alone there are pages and pages of images that feature aspects of her life and work. Decades later, devoted fans share their passion for her work on social media. When she wrote about finding an old farmhouse in the country (in a snowstorm) with her friend, “Jill” – and the ensuing trials, tribulations and happiness – first in a column “Diary of Domesticity” ( Ladies' Home Journal), then “Butternut Wisdom” ( Family Circle), then books – readers responded. Her books fill shelves and run the gamut from fiction (not as well known), to those about her home, beloved dogs and cats, Cape Cod, recipes, friends, gardens. And she wrote, distilling life into words that still speak. See this house? In the 1690 farmhouse is a kitchen where a beloved author Gladys Taber not only stirred up satisfying meals for body and soul, she also dreamed, lived, faced power outages, food shortages in World War II, change and crisis. The children were eating them as fast as they were fried and keeping up remarkably well.” – Stillmeadow Kitchen by Gladys Taber. After a time, I noticed that no matter how many plump doughnuts were laid on the brown paper to drain, the number never increased. “As for the children – once when I was making doughnuts, I was greatly flattered because Don and Cicely stood beside me and engaged me in charming conversation. Thinking of the late Gladys Taber while out exploring and later, reading from her many books. Grow: Seen At The Big E, Eastern States Exposition.Dreamers, Do-ers, Farmers And Producers.Journeys & Destinations: Go And Find Out.Elmwood Pastry 70 Years “Being Sweet To You Is Our Business”.CT Businesses: Hancock Pharmacy & Surgical.Eastern States Exposition Agricultural Adventurers Award.A Vision: Ride The Rails Infrastructure Update.2020 Pequot Library: Restoration of the 125-Year-Old Roof. ![]() Howdy Cromwell Rocky Hill To Wethersfield.2020 Open Space And Watershed DEEP Grants.Stanley + Techstars Accelerator Demo Day.Grow, Read, Go: Indigenous History, Books, Business.The Ninety-Nines, Sara Hayden, WASP WWII.CT River Museum Holiday Train Show 2020-2021. ![]()
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