Nancy As a former Watertown gal, we had ham. Down here they have collard green and blackeyed peas and the ham (hocks). Happy holidays. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Dixon <nandixon@gisco.net> To: <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER-L] TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR'S DINNER > Florence Secor wrote: > > > > I vaguely remember (and I don't have Alzheimer's) that Pork was served for a traditional New Year's Dinner. Just looked in an older cook book and saw two New > > Does our heritage determine the traditional dinner; that is, Italian, German, Irish, French, English, etc.? I believe that most of our people just enjoy eatin > > > > I live in a small senior's building and would like to serve a "traditional" dinner in our community room on New Year's Day. > > > > Had thought of Roast Pork with sweet & sour red cabbage for starters. > > > > Open minded for your suggestions. > > Florence @ Henderson, NY > > I was brought up here in Jefferson County in the '30s, and I believe roast pork was a > New Year's Day tradition. Certainly our heritage determines our traditions. Here in > Jefferson County the weather had become cold enough for butchering, and pork was the > poor farmer's meat. Beef was for the more affluent, who could spare a cow, a bull, or a > calf. > > Mother served roast pork, with sage and black pepper rubbed on it. Sometimes she also > made "stuffing", the same dressing she made for stuffing poultry, of bread cubes, > onions, sage, and salt and pepper. The stuffing baked right along with the pork, not > for the cholesterol conscious. A crisp browned cube of bread, with its bottom resting > in the clear pork fat, was delicious to a child coming in from the cold. The dinner > ALWAYS included home made applesauce, either fresh or canned; potatoes, usually boiled, > and cabbage salad with a homemade dressing of oil and vinegar with sugar. If we were > affluent enough, there might be baked yams (sweets, my mother called them) Dessert > would be pie: mince or pumpkin, perhaps apple. No lettuce, because that was out of > season, and expensive. The vegetable would be from the root cellar: carrots, perhaps, > or turnips, or maybe some home canned tomatoes. > > Traditional perhaps for our family only. > > Nan Dixon > -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/ > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >