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While the guys were cranking away on the ice cream the ladies would be setting up a table outside in the yard, filling it with fix’ins for the wiener-dog roast and the most wonderful side salads. We would have coleslaw, potato salad, sometimes if you were lucky banana salad, deviled eggs, celery sticks, carrot sticks, and it wouldn’t be complete without a variety of Jello salads! Yumm! Not to mention an array of delicious desserts!
The kids always had the job of gathering up sticks for the fire and readying the roasting sticks. When we had enough sticks stacked up by the old willow tree the guys would light the fire. I always thought that the best part of the wiener-dog roast was that you got to pick your own stick. I didn’t even have to share it! It was so cool! It was also the one time that you were allowed to play with your food. It’s not everyday that you get to stab a hotdog with a stick and swing it over a fire!
After we successfully burned all of the hotdogs and stuffed ourselves to the gills it was marshmallow time! Stuffed or otherwise there is always room for s’mores, they just smoosh and melt into the cracks! Donna was always in charge of supervising the s’more making, after all she is the expert marshmallow burner. Still to this day I have never seen a blacker marshmallow than hers! I remember asking her one year why she always burned them to a fluffy crisp and she replied it was the only way they were good, and besides that how else did I think she kept her hair so dark and curly!?! You know after all it was the black coffee that shrunk her… she used to be over 6’ tall… and it was the burnt marshmallows that turned her hair black and curly! LOL
Then around dusk the guys would gather together at the end of the lane and assemble the fireworks show for the night. While they were getting ready the rest of us would set up lawn chairs and spread blankets at the top of the lane. While everyone waited us kids would put on a sparkler show. We would scroll our names through the air and spin around and around until we were too dizzy to stand! Mostly I think our show kept us busy and somewhat served as a bug deterrent …although, I don’t recall it ever working very well on the Junebugs. Nasty little critters!
Once the large fireworks were done we got to light our glow snakes. Oh, and just for the record if your much older cousins tell you it's okay to stomp the snakes when they are all done growing… don’t listen to them! Mom had a much different idea about that! She wasn’t too excited to find us covered head to toe in black soot! After the fireworks were said and done the party would move indoors for a night full of pinochle. Then to finish off the night, well before us kids went to bed, everyone would have a nice big bowl of homemade ice cream! Yumm!
Ingredients:
6 medium sized apples
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tbsp flour
cinnamon & butter as desired
cream or milk
Mix 3/4 cup sugar and 1 1/2 tbsp in pie shell.
Place Sliced apples on top.
Mix the remaining flour and sugar together and sprinkle over apples
Drop butter and cinnamon on top of apples.
Cover with crust and brush crust with cream or milk before baking in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
Dutch Apple Pie (Mrs. Shellberg)
Ingredients:
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| Marie, Mary, Marlin, and Max roasting hotdogs (1966) |
After we successfully burned all of the hotdogs and stuffed ourselves to the gills it was marshmallow time! Stuffed or otherwise there is always room for s’mores, they just smoosh and melt into the cracks! Donna was always in charge of supervising the s’more making, after all she is the expert marshmallow burner. Still to this day I have never seen a blacker marshmallow than hers! I remember asking her one year why she always burned them to a fluffy crisp and she replied it was the only way they were good, and besides that how else did I think she kept her hair so dark and curly!?! You know after all it was the black coffee that shrunk her… she used to be over 6’ tall… and it was the burnt marshmallows that turned her hair black and curly! LOL
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| Barb roasting marshmallows. (1969?) |
Then around dusk the guys would gather together at the end of the lane and assemble the fireworks show for the night. While they were getting ready the rest of us would set up lawn chairs and spread blankets at the top of the lane. While everyone waited us kids would put on a sparkler show. We would scroll our names through the air and spin around and around until we were too dizzy to stand! Mostly I think our show kept us busy and somewhat served as a bug deterrent …although, I don’t recall it ever working very well on the Junebugs. Nasty little critters!
Once the large fireworks were done we got to light our glow snakes. Oh, and just for the record if your much older cousins tell you it's okay to stomp the snakes when they are all done growing… don’t listen to them! Mom had a much different idea about that! She wasn’t too excited to find us covered head to toe in black soot! After the fireworks were said and done the party would move indoors for a night full of pinochle. Then to finish off the night, well before us kids went to bed, everyone would have a nice big bowl of homemade ice cream! Yumm!
- Jennifer Figgins
daughter of Jesse Figgins and Mary Bryan
daughter of Jesse Figgins and Mary Bryan
Homemade Ice Cream (Uncooked Vanilla Ice Cream)
Now this isn't Grandma Joy's recipe, I'm still looking for it, but this year we used the following recipe and it turned out just delicious!
Ingredients:
5 pasteurized eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups cream
3 tbsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
5 1/2-6 cups milk
Beat eggs until light and lemon-colored; gradually add sugar.
Continue adding cream, vanilla extract and salt; chill.
Pour mixture into the chilled container of a 1 gallon dasher type freezer.
Add milk, filling container two-thirds full; cover tightly.
Churn-freeze according to manufacturers directions.
Yield: 1 gallon
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Now this isn't Grandma Joy's recipe, I'm still looking for it, but this year we used the following recipe and it turned out just delicious!
Ingredients:
5 pasteurized eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups cream
3 tbsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
5 1/2-6 cups milk
Beat eggs until light and lemon-colored; gradually add sugar.
Continue adding cream, vanilla extract and salt; chill.
Pour mixture into the chilled container of a 1 gallon dasher type freezer.
Add milk, filling container two-thirds full; cover tightly.
Churn-freeze according to manufacturers directions.
Yield: 1 gallon
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Apple Pie (Mrs. Shellberg)
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| Recipes by Mrs. Shellberg, Joy Miller's handwriting. |
Ingredients:
6 medium sized apples
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tbsp flour
cinnamon & butter as desired
cream or milk
Mix 3/4 cup sugar and 1 1/2 tbsp in pie shell.
Place Sliced apples on top.
Mix the remaining flour and sugar together and sprinkle over apples
Drop butter and cinnamon on top of apples.
Cover with crust and brush crust with cream or milk before baking in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
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Dutch Apple Pie (Mrs. Shellberg)
Ingredients:
6 medium sized sliced apples
3 tbsp flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
Mix flour, sugar, and sour cream together.
Place apples in pie shell.
Pour sour cream mixture over apples.
Sprinkle remaining sugar and cinnamon on top.
Cover with crust and bake same as above Apple Pie recipe.
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Here’s to a Happy 4th of July!
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