Seven decades later, the recipes and ads in a fundraising cookbook provide a nostalgic glimpse into the lives of our foremothers.
My mother was a new bride that year, married during a blizzard on Dec. 15 only a few weeks after having been advised by the Regina school board’s decree that if she married, she would have to resign as a teacher at the end of the school year.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Held together now with masking tape, the soft-cover book almost naturally falls opens at page 28. There, my mother ticked off in pen the long list of ingredients as she added them to the Christmas cake. But there are also plenty of mid-century ‘modern’ recipes including a litany of jellied salads for luncheons and suppers. Lime Jell-O with olives and cashews! Lemon Jell-O with pineapple juice, onions, vinegar, cream and paprika!
Mrs. D. Weaver takes simplicity a step further in “Delicious Uncooked Cake” that blends the wafers with condensed milk, marshmallows and maraschino cherries. The Canadian factory that produced Dad’s Cookies from the mid-1960s until 1984 was in White City, which is now virtually a suburb of Regina. There, thrifty housewives bought imperfects and brokens for the half price or less.Article content
Telephones and a reliable supply of electricity to rural areas were two of the promises that had brought Tommy Douglas and his Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government to power in 1944 and kept them there until 1964. The telephone ad names the Crown corporation’s minister and its general manager.Article content
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