Category Archives: memoir
‘One of the Housekeeper’s Necessaries’
I am named after my great-grandmother, Clara, whose parents emigrated from a small village in southern Germany to Cleveland, Ohio in the 1870s. She looks genteel in this photo but her family supported itself with the rough-and-tumble Black Cat Whiskey … Continue reading
New Year, Old Egg Nog Recipe
When my Grandma Bertie was growing up in coastal North Carolina about 100 years ago, she dutifully wrote down recipes from her mother, her aunts, and the ladies of the town. Even though she went away to college – uncommon … Continue reading
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Tagged Beverages, egg nog, great-grandmother, North Carolina
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