[Sca-cooks] Elizabeth Crocker

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 02:02 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote:
> >
> > Well, my mother, also a Depression child, wouldn't waste the energy to
> > scrape those last fourteen molecules of butter off the wrapper.  She
> > would use them to grease the pan, thereby not wasting them and also
> > having
> > a bit of protection to keep her fingers from getting greasy in the
> > process.
>
>Touché. That would be the way to go, _if_ you had a pan to grease. If
>not, that would be a waste. ;-)

And you were lucky! Why, we had to fry things in our bare hands!

'Lainie, moseying out to the Rock...
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