My husband's family is from Minnesota and we've got family who married into a big Polish family from Milwaukee so we know all about putting shoes out and getting candy the next day. Grandma still sends packages with candied orange slices.
Oh, cole slaw... what KIND? Is it the mayonnaise type? or the vinegary type? though... I may be getting confused. For YEARS my sister in law, a TERRIBLE COOK, always insisted on bringing the German potato salad to everything, bacon, bacon grease, and cider vinegar.
I have no idea what the origins are of the green bean casserole and its cousin the wild rice hot dish. I know that the Minnesota cookbook I got as a wedding gift over 20 years ago has pages and pages of variations on those recipes and I'd never heard before of the significance of the 79 cent can of Cream of Mushroom soup until I moved to the Midwest. (I've not even mentioned the significance of "dollar bun" sandwiches that are served at every important milestone in a person's life -- the same menus of hot dish, dollar buns, green bean casserole, and pans of bars will be at y our birth and baptism, first Communion, confirmation, graduations, wedding showers, wedding, all those events for you children, and finally your wake and funeral lunch in the church basement).
And YES, Christmas is supposed to continue to Epiphany... which come to think of it, I'm lectoring at this year.
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Oh, cole slaw... what KIND? Is it the mayonnaise type? or the vinegary type? though... I may be getting confused. For YEARS my sister in law, a TERRIBLE COOK, always insisted on bringing the German potato salad to everything, bacon, bacon grease, and cider vinegar.
I have no idea what the origins are of the green bean casserole and its cousin the wild rice hot dish. I know that the Minnesota cookbook I got as a wedding gift over 20 years ago has pages and pages of variations on those recipes and I'd never heard before of the significance of the 79 cent can of Cream of Mushroom soup until I moved to the Midwest. (I've not even mentioned the significance of "dollar bun" sandwiches that are served at every important milestone in a person's life -- the same menus of hot dish, dollar buns, green bean casserole, and pans of bars will be at y our birth and baptism, first Communion, confirmation, graduations, wedding showers, wedding, all those events for you children, and finally your wake and funeral lunch in the church basement).
And YES, Christmas is supposed to continue to Epiphany... which come to think of it, I'm lectoring at this year.