Really? Its Scottish? I do that , too, although not 7 and 7. Maybe 3 and 3. :)) My grandmother was 100% Scottish and my grandfather was 100% Penna Dutch. (Speaking of Hostetlers and Bontragers, et al from your last few posts, Karen). Tonight (most nights) we had sweet pickles, grapefruit segments from a jar, leftover cranberry sauce, little peppers, and hotter peppers (for me), some sort of special cracker, and a shaving of cheese. Just a tablespoon of each and maybe 4 grapefruit segments just to "decorate the plate". We always have pickles..every meal, and usually some sort of chutney. I would hate for any of you to see the inside of my refrigerator because there is nothing to actually EAT. It is just jars and jars and jars of sauces, mustards, chutneys, pickles, peppers and jarred fruit. I had always assumed it was from the Penna Dutch side, but you're saying it was Scottish? I know it came from my dad's side because my mom was 100% Irish and it was Meat. Potatoes and iceberg lettuce Salad with green peppers. Every single meal. Her chili, not that anybody cares but I've always found it amusing, was what we would all call hamburger soup. Ground beef, onion, carrot and a can of tomatoes. There was maybe a dash of chili power in it, but nothing like you would think of when you thought of chili. She was a terrible cook because the food she served was so bland and boring. No seasoning. No herbs. My dad had been brought up on salt cured meats and smoked everything. He started cooking when I was really little. I think it was for pure survival. Suzy Seriously? 7 sweets and 7 sours. That'd take some big time thinking/planning. I have enough trouble with one meat, one salad, one veggie and one dessert :) **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026)

Or, was it momma's plan ? ----- Original Message ----- From: <Limequilla@aol.com> To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Migration NJ to Colerain Twp Ham.Co OhiotoMontgomery Co > > Really? Its Scottish? I do that , too, although not 7 and 7. Maybe 3 > and > 3. :)) My grandmother was 100% Scottish and my grandfather was 100% > Penna > Dutch. (Speaking of Hostetlers and Bontragers, et al from your last few > posts, > Karen). Tonight (most nights) we had sweet pickles, grapefruit segments > from > a jar, leftover cranberry sauce, little peppers, and hotter peppers (for > me), > some sort of special cracker, and a shaving of cheese. Just a tablespoon > of > each and maybe 4 grapefruit segments just to "decorate the plate". We > always have pickles..every meal, and usually some sort of chutney. I > would hate > for any of you to see the inside of my refrigerator because there is > nothing > to actually EAT. It is just jars and jars and jars of sauces, mustards, > chutneys, pickles, peppers and jarred fruit. > > I had always assumed it was from the Penna Dutch side, but you're saying > it > was Scottish? I know it came from my dad's side because my mom was 100% > Irish and it was Meat. Potatoes and iceberg lettuce Salad with green > peppers. > Every single meal. Her chili, not that anybody cares but I've always found > it > amusing, was what we would all call hamburger soup. Ground beef, onion, > carrot > and a can of tomatoes. There was maybe a dash of chili power in it, but > nothing like you would think of when you thought of chili. She was a > terrible cook > because the food she served was so bland and boring. No seasoning. No > herbs. > My dad had been brought up on salt cured meats and smoked everything. He > started cooking when I was really little. I think it was for pure > survival. > > Suzy > > Seriously? 7 sweets and 7 sours. That'd take some big time > thinking/planning. > I have enough trouble with one meat, one salad, one veggie and one > dessert > :) > > **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making > headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

No, no -- 7/7 was my clue to German (PA Dutch) ancestry! Grandpa Shelley was 100 % German, even though they emigrated in the 1730-40 period. Grandma Shelley was the Erskine! Sorry to confuse you, Suzy. And I'd love to see the inside of your refrigerator, so long as you didn't ask to see the inside of mine. Periodically I clean it and find seven open jars of mustard, all different, etc. Suzy, you really want to read Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett Fischer. It's sociology, but really fascinating and useful to a genealogist. He for example talks about how families with a family background from one part of Britain will boil or simmer most foods -- while those from another area will use a skillet and fry everything! He has sections of his book about New England, about the Scotch-Irish in the American South/Midwest, about the Quakers of the Middle Atlantic, and about the leisured gentlefolk of the coastal US Maryland/VA south. Too true! Kathy > From: Limequilla@aol.com > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:50:27 -0500 > To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Migration NJ to Colerain Twp Ham.Co Ohioto Montgomery Co > > > Really? Its Scottish? I do that , too, although not 7 and 7. Maybe 3 and > 3. :)) My grandmother was 100% Scottish and my grandfather was 100% Penna > Dutch. (Speaking of Hostetlers and Bontragers, et al from your last few posts, > Karen). Tonight (most nights) we had sweet pickles, grapefruit segments from > a jar, leftover cranberry sauce, little peppers, and hotter peppers (for me), > some sort of special cracker, and a shaving of cheese. Just a tablespoon of > each and maybe 4 grapefruit segments just to "decorate the plate". We > always have pickles..every meal, and usually some sort of chutney. I would hate > for any of you to see the inside of my refrigerator because there is nothing > to actually EAT. It is just jars and jars and jars of sauces, mustards, > chutneys, pickles, peppers and jarred fruit. > > I had always assumed it was from the Penna Dutch side, but you're saying it > was Scottish? I know it came from my dad's side because my mom was 100% > Irish and it was Meat. Potatoes and iceberg lettuce Salad with green peppers. > Every single meal. Her chili, not that anybody cares but I've always found it > amusing, was what we would all call hamburger soup. Ground beef, onion, carrot > and a can of tomatoes. There was maybe a dash of chili power in it, but > nothing like you would think of when you thought of chili. She was a terrible cook > because the food she served was so bland and boring. No seasoning. No herbs. > My dad had been brought up on salt cured meats and smoked everything. He > started cooking when I was really little. I think it was for pure survival. > > Suzy > > Seriously? 7 sweets and 7 sours. That'd take some big time > thinking/planning. > I have enough trouble with one meat, one salad, one veggie and one dessert > :) > > **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making > headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026) > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message