I
had some chickens and eggs to send down to the Orofino Mercantile lately and so got
supplies and some treats, and Lydia put in an extra pound of the hard candy. We
promised to have a regular tree and we’ll all be children and have a lot of fun
out of it. -- Ina
Sadie sat patiently at the dining
room table – the very same table we sit at today – waiting for Gram’s delicious
cinnamon raisin bread to come out of the oven. It smelled wonderful, and her
mouth was watering. Since it was Saturday, they had slept in. She and her
mother had already gathered the eggs and fed the chickens, and now she was
truly hungry.
Oh, and breakfast was more than just the cinnamon bread. While Ina bustled about the kitchen doing this and that, Ethel fried the bacon and eggs and occasionally stirred the pot of oatmeal. Sadie marveled at how efficiently her mother managed the old wood stove. They had an electric stove at home, so how did her mother know how to cook on this old stove, she wondered, but of course, Ethel had learned to cook on this very wood stove under Ina’s watchful eye.
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It seemed like the wait was an
eternity, but soon Ina was placing the delectable “monkey bread” casserole on
the table. Even though she could barely restrain herself, Sadie politely waited
while everyone was seated, especially Gram, and she was invited to help herself.
Gramps winked at her, and she knew he had seen her impatience. She loved Gramps. She
could count on his sense of humor to lighten Gram’s frequent sternness. They
had a lot of fun together, Sadie and Gramps. KW
Mmm, do you have the recipe for the cinnamon bread?
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't. Sadie sitting at the table with her mouth watering is an incident Chuck described to me. It was cinnamon bread baked in a casserole with raisins, perhaps a type of what we call monkey bread today. I really don't know. I do remember that once my dad read recipes and tried to duplicate this. And I haven't found it in old cookbooks or heritage recipe lines. If you see anything of this sort, please let me know.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember, it was in a round about 9-in pan about 3 in. deep. The raisin bread was in segments, and you just took a segment and ate it. Mouth watering is right. It went well with milk or hot chocolate. I don't really know what monkey bread is, but it sounds like what that must be. The segments were quite even around the pan.
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