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Saturday, December 9, 2017

INA AND THE GINGERBREAD PAGEANT -- DAY 9



Here it was Saturday, the 9th of December – Christmas coming closer with each day. Even though Ina didn’t decorate until just before Christmas, there was still work to be done so that the house was ready. With Shirley Anne tagging along, they dusted and mopped all morning long, the little girl chattering away all the while. Ina had forgotten just how much a child could talk.

As soon as the noon meal was finished and the dishes done, Ina set about to make her mother’s recipe for pork cake, an old-fashioned fruitcake that was a family tradition on special occasions, including Christmas. Ina wasn’t sure she really liked pork cake, but like I said, it WAS tradition. Ina set Shirley Ann to work chopping nuts and such other helpful tasks as were safe enough for a youngster to perform. The wonderful aroma of baking fruitcake soon filled the house. Perhaps that was the best thing about fruitcake.
 
It seems fairly quiet in this world of 1933, doesn’t it? Well, things will soon change. KW

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