[Sca-cooks] canned gravy??????

[karobert at unm.edu]

Quoting Christine Seelye-King <kingstaste at mindspring.com>:

It was also the first time I'd
> ever
> seen anyone stringing celery stalks.  (Using a knife to cut away a
> small
> section at one end, then pulling along the back to remove the fibers
> running
> lenghthwise.  

my mother did that...so did i in my youth (so to speak).   now life's
too short. 8)   never been a big celery fan, so most of mine is chopped
into stew and soup and stuffings where strings don't matter.

was she using them for a relish tray or stuffing them, or doing it for
the chopped stuff as well?

lots of the weird stuff my mom did i just put down to old world (first
generation in america) or depression era mentality... do what you can to
make it usable.  i also learned to darn socks, but not very well.

cailte