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Left without her grandmother’s rhubarb pie recipe, Ada has to improvise…with a little help from someone else’s grandmother.
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Left without her grandmother’s rhubarb pie recipe, Ada has to improvise…with a little help from someone else’s grandmother.
Transcript
When in the kitchen, many people strive to get their recipes tasting just as good as Grandma’s. But my grandmother came from the 1950s generation of working moms and she reveled in the advent of convenience food. She loved her instant potatoes, cake mixes, and Jell-O. She didn’t have time for a whole lot of home cooking. But as much as we laughed at some of her culinary under-achievements, the truth is that she was a good baker and that we all miss her raisin rye bread. So every once in a while, I do find myself faced with a dilemma in the kitchen that only a grandma can solve. Like what to do with the shopping bag filled with rhubarb that magically appeared in my fridge last week.
I’m not sure how I end up with a shopping bag overflowing with rhubarb. We seem to be in the business of growing really tiny rhubarb up here at the cabin. The only place the rhubarb in our garden would be an...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Ada Igoe is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week, she shares her perspectives through Of Woods and Words. In this episode, Ada talks about baking rhubarb pie.
OUTRO:That was Of Woods and Words from WTIP North Shore Community Radio, online at wtip.org. Support for this feature comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Support for this feature comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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