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He used slices of mild Bermuda onions, sprinkled with vinegar and dusted with pepper and salt. "If nothing else was available made his sandwiches of onions.

Since we're on the subject of food, let's talk about onion sandwiches.

Have others? Is this normal? It is practically inevitable that one cool winter evening I will experiment and report back. But egg, shell and all, in your coffee? Never seen it before. He put this to simmer and while it came to a boil, slowly filling the kitchen with delicious coffee fragrance, he made the sandwiches." Now, in Oregon, we pride ourselves on knowing how to make a cup. He made it with egg, crushing shell and all into the pot, mixing it with plenty of coffee and filling the pot with cold water.

Then something very strange is described: "First he put the coffee on. Ray, Betsy's father, commandeered the kitchen and made grand meals for his daughters and their friends. In Chapter 11, "Sunday Night Lunch," Lovelace describes how Mr.But I should have had more faith the book was refreshing and realistic and quite a pleasure. I was nervous that upon rereading the stories would not hold up - that, rather than giddily enjoying the characters I had grown up loving, I would be dismayed at provincialism or outdated views of gender, etc., etc. The books I remember best were about Betsy, Tacy, and Tib in grade school Heaven to Betsy regales the reader with stories from their freshman year of high school, modeled on the turn-of-the-century Minnesota small town Maud herself recalled so fondly. Lovelace began to write the Betsy-Tacy stories, and Mr. Then the Lovelaces came east, had a daughter named Merian, and settled down in Garden City, Long Island, where Mrs. Lovelace too wrote some historical novels, including the popular Early Candlelight.

Lovelace, then deep in the First World War. The diarist went on to the University of Minnesota, traveled a bit, wrote a few stories, and married Delos W. From the jacket copy:įrom 1906 to 1910 Maud Hart went to high school in Mankato, Minnesota, and had, she says, a very good time, which she recorded in four diaries, one for each high school year. And I nearly dropped the other three books I was carrying I snatched the lovely old copy (from 1945) greedily, like my 7-year-old self, thrilled at the idea of getting reacquainted with Betsy and Tacy (and don't forget Tib, though she figured only as a pen pal at this point in the series).įor those of you who didn't grow up reading the Betsy-Tacy books, a bit about the author: Maud Hart Lovelace was born in 1892 in Minnesota, and she spent her formative years there.

At the Salvation Army in Astoria a few weeks ago, while browsing the shelves of books, I came across Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace.