![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ma frying “vanity cake” doughnuts, so named because they’re “all puffed up, like vanity, with nothing solid inside.” Almanzo stuffing himself from the following spread at the county fair: pumpkin pie, custard pie, vinegar pie, mince pie, berry pies, cream pies, raisin pies … The spring on Plum Creek when they ran out of food and ate only fried fish and “crisp, juicy” turnips. How Pa butchered the pig, smoked the meat, and used every bit of it, down to inflating the empty bladder for the girls to play with as a balloon. l used it to make sparkling cranberries for the top of a vinegar pie from the book Farmer Boy.Įveryone who grew up on the Little House books has their own particular treasured food memory from the books. My thrifty-housewife version of Ma’s “scrap bag” is this colorful mixture of sanding sugar left over from children’s parties. ![]()
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