Thank you so much, and please thank your mother! This is fascinating.

I am going to try the potato pie for sure, it sounds delicious. Maybe also the lemon curd. That warm milk sounds absolutely disgusting.

If you think she'd be interested, tell her that the barter system also goes on in rural America. We currently have an egg shortage and I have six chickens, so I'm trading eggs for homemade bread, stew, biscuits and scones, and fresh-caught fish!

I have a non-food question. What games did she play as a child? Does she remember any game rhymes, like skipping rope rhymes or "Eeenie meenie minie moe?"

And also, what books did she read? What books does she remember her parents reading, if her parents were readers?