Schedule – page 3 | Grandma’s Stories

Oct 22nd Schedule – page 3

It is now – NOON TIME – and everyone is in their correct Dining Room. So, on a Sunday – we could be having meat-loaf, mash potatoes and string beans and piece of bread and cup of water on Mondays – (have to try to remember) – on Tuesdays – we had what they (NUNS) called stew? This was one meal that none of the children would call stew, on Mondays the Nun in charge of Church, would make Communion on the special machine to make unleavened bread. She would use another machine to make the round “HOST” – and after making would have excess cut-out material and some of the unbaked dough – which was sent down to the “KITCHEN” – and this is the good part. In the KITCHEN – they made some kind f a “WHIE BROTH” and included these scrapes from Church and added sliced half-inch hot-dogs – and this was called “STEW!” Kids like hot-dogs and so we could hardly complain – as that was the dinner meal at NOON each week!

Wednesday and Thursday cannot think of anything special – one must remember – I was a small child back then – sixty years ago? But – now on Friday s – we have the same “Whit Fish” -mash potatoes and string beans. The vegetables could change – there was corn, peas, and string beans – but since the girls would peel potatoes, 10 buckets full – each day after getting out of school – potatoes were an everyday item! Every Saturday, you could set your watch at 12-NOON -dinner time was “Spaghetti” – standard – no change!

For – New Year’s – Christmas and Thanksgiving Days – the older girls working in the Kitchen would de-feather and clean fresh Turkeys, which were baked in the Bakery Oven. They were de-boned and all of the meat for the children was broken up and put into gravy – which you would receive on your plate with mash potatoes and string beans. No one really liked the Turkey all torn up in such size pieces – it was hard to think that – that was a Turkey Dinner – but with time you learn to accept – that which you get – as if there was an alternative – maybe you would be getting nothing? And “WHO” likes notating at all?

The reason I could not think what we had on MONDAY – WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY – was – because those were meals I could not eat at all! We had Butter Beans, Navy Beans and Sauer Kraut – and those foods made me sick. So, I was “LUCKY” that my brother, Denny liked everything. So I would say to Denny, -“Your friend over there is trying to get your attention” and as soon as he would look away – I would take my fork and push almost all of the food that I did not like on to his plate! Sometimes – I would get away with that – and then there were times – he didn’t want any part of what I was trying to do? So, in that case when the NUN, that was in charge and waking around was not near our table – I would just push a small amount in this direction and that – but away from our table! Some of the other kids were doing the same thing – with what they did not like. I still do not like Butter Bears and Sauerkraut and do like Navy Beans in a pot of soup with a nice meaty ham bone. Black beans and rice – I can eat today –because over the years – have read that they are good for you – and also one cancels out the other. By eating them together – you do not gain any weight? (More excitement, tomorrow!)