Yvonne is a very good cook and since I made most of my living in commercial kitchens, I’m no slouch either but: There ain’t nothing I can think of that compares to the memories I have of Grandma’s feasts. She was up every morning a good hour before anyone in the house even stirred. When she called everyone to come eat, the table was always so full there was no way anyone could put their elbows on it. The evening meal was the same but on the side of the table sat the dessert table. She knew my favorite was her custard pie but close behind that was her chocolate pie or maybe her rhubarb pie. On Sundays though, she was a magician. She’d have breakfast ready before church and while she was at it the oven was filled with the after church roast something. Roast beef, Ham, Turkey, Chickens….something. Whilst everyone was finishing breakfast, she’d get cleaned up and put on her Sunday to go to meetin’ dress complete with her little hat and always with a smile on her face.
Does anyone remember Dutch Loaf luncheon meat? Either Oscar Mayer or Carolina Pride used to prepackage that stuff. I loved it with mustard. Made with beef, pork, and spices. It disappear and the closest thing was Spiced Luncheon Meat, but they started adding chicken and turkey. Too bland. We used to buy it at a little Lawson's store back in the 50's and 60's in Ohio.
Many years ago Erich put out a lunchmeat called Therunger --spelled wrong, but the meat made a good sandwich. In junior high at lunch time we could buy a big hot yeast roll and an thick slice of ice cream wrapped in a paper holder. The ice cream inside the hot yeast roll - awe what a delightful dessert that was. I miss these two things for sure.
You reminded me of Pimento Loaf (or maybe it was Olive Loaf.) I recall it being around the house, but my dad was the only one who ate it. I think green olives shall forever be on my short list of food dislikes.
The thing I remember most about Limburger cheese (other than it was a pungent staple in many central IL households) is that it was a major instrument of teenage pranks. When liberally applied to certain areas under the hood of a car, nobody would want to ride in that car.
I remember buying and enjoying thuringer sausage also, but I have not seen anything called that for many years now. However, it seems like what is called “summer sausage” is pretty much the same thing, and I do remember seeing that in the stores. It has about the same flavor, but comes in smaller diameter sausage rolls than the thuringer did. I remember the thuringer being the same size as a slice of salami, but maybe my memory is wrong. The pimento/olive loaf, @Joe Riley , I remember that , too, and it was one of my favorites ! When I was growing up, my folks ran a small neighborhood grocery back in the 1950’s; so they carried a nice variety of lunch meat, and sliced it however the customer wanted it sliced. We had the big loaves of lunch meats in the cooler case, and people would just ask for whatever kind they wanted, and Grandpa Bailey would slice it and weigh it on the old brass scale that they had in the store. .
this was produced by Ecrich brand and was in shape and size as a bologna piece., even packaged the same
The Dutch Valley Dutch Loaf is made of the same stuff, but that doesn't mean the taste would be the same.
We always had Pickle & Pimento Loaf in the house when I was growing up. On those childhood jobs where I had to carry a lunch (e.g., de-tasseling corn, highway road crew, grease monkey, etc.) I often made a sandwich with the stuff. You could think of it as lunch meat with built-in condiments.
I miss these U-shaped hot dog buns, called Snuggles, from the 1970s. Toufayan Bakery no longer makes them. Nobody does as far as I know. The bread was stiff, but not dry, and sweet like yeast bread. They didn't fall apart or smash down.