Dear Folks, Today as I continued to edit my stories, I came across a vague reference to Aunt Teeny (Ernestine) and pull taffy during WWII and I thought I'd tell you the story as well as I can remember it. Aunt Teeny was married to Ed Hoerner whom everyone just called Hoerner. My sister and I referred to him as Uncle Hoerner. During the war Uncle Hoerner was in the Navy and was sent overseas. While he was in the Navy Aunt Teeny would send him boxes of homemade cookies and other delights. One time she decided to make a batch of pull taffy for him and asked her sisters Freda, Jean and Betty to help her with it. They were also my aunts, sisters of Mother. Cooking pull taffy is pretty routine as far as making candy goes but what makes it special is that after it's done and has cooled down to where you can handle it, it's time to go to work pulling it. It takes two people to pull taffy by hand. A blob of taffy is scooped up and pulled into a rope, the rope is lapped over in half and you pull it again and again until it's a very thin rope with a nice creamy shade and is chewy but still soft--like salt water taffy. Uncle Hoerner always wrote back telling Aunt Teeny how delicious everything was but one time he mentioned that as delicious as the pull taffy was, he was curious what the red specks were that were in it. Teeny didn't have a clue what he was talking about and she discussed it with her three sisters to see if they had a clue. The four of them thought about it some more and then they all busted up laughing. They had just figured out that while they were pulling the taffy, they were all wearing red fingernail polish and that chips of polish ended up in the taffy! Granted, this isn't the funniest story that's ever been told but it was at the time it happened. Such are the hazards of war! :-) vee