Hilde Schwartz’s Cranberry Pie

Recipe goes here…

INGREDIENTS

3/4 c + 2 Tbsp vegetable shortening

1 c sugar (+ “extra” for dipping)

1 large egg

1/4 c + 2 Tbsp unsulphured molasses

2 c flour

1-1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1-1/2 tsp ground cloves

1-1/2 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp salt

2 Tbsp Baking Powder

ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS

Cream the sugar and shortening

Add the beaten egg and molasses. Add the sifted together dry ingredients.

On waxed paper, form the dough into a 2” log, chill and cut into 1/4” slices.

Dip one side into the sugar and bake in a 3750 oven for 8 minutes

Remove while warm. Makes 36

Dut Marx

AUNT ROSIES’ LEMON PIE

1 Cup Sugar 3 Tbsp Flour

3 Tbsp Cornstarch 1/4 Tsp Salt

2 Egg yolks 1 1/2 Cup HOT water

2 Lemons (juice & rind, grated)

Blend together in saucepan – sugar, salt, flour & cornstarch. Stir in hot water and cook until thick. Remove from fire and add slowly the slightly beaten yolks. Resume cooking over a slow fire for a minute. Stir in lemon juice and rind. Cool and pour into a baked pie shell. Cover with merinque and return to oven. Bake at 325 degrees until brown.

Merinque

4 Egg whites

1/2 tsp Cream of tartar

8 Tbsp Sugar

Genuine Caesar Salad

a Work of Art taught to RJ and Sam J by a Belgian Maitre’d Hotel named Armand in the Tropicana Hotel in 1968

Not the mild mannered, flavorless crap you get in a restaurant

Ingredients

Romaine lettuce

croutons

Parmesan Cheese

Dressing

3-4 fingers peeled garlic

2 heaping T Hot Mustard (Mr. Mustard, Ty Ling or other Chinese Mustard works nicely)

1/2 lemon

2 dashes Worcestershire sauce

1 egg

anchovie paste

pinch salt

Assembly Instructions

Split the garlic and rub over the inside of an unfinished wooden bowl (but a finished bowl will do if you don’t have an unfinished one)

mince the rest of the garlic into the bowl and add the lemon juice, salt, Worcesershire and a little less than 1/2 tube of anchovie paste stirring with a fork.

mix in the raw egg (these days folks afraid of Salmonella coddle the egg first but short of raising the temperature high enough to actually cook the egg, I can’t see much help from that)

Taste … It should be very, very sharp in taste … If you think it is “too sharp” it is probably close to “right” The super strong flavor is greatly diminished when the greens are added.

Coat the inside of the bowl, add greens and toss well

Serve with REAL Parmesan Cheese and fresh crushed black pepper.

source: taught to Rj & Sam J by a Belgian chef named “Armand” at the Tropicana Hotel in the late 60’s

MY FRUSTRATION

My Children are Almost All Grown …

I Want:

Time to visit with my children … before they fly away

To be able to afford to travel with them

and give them some (if only a small part of),

the Wonderful Travels I had

when I was much younger than they are Now

and if I do not do it Soon … it can Never Be.

Them to have comfortable quarters … with nice furniture.

Them to have a place to entertain their friends.

I am Ashamed:

To be the only member of the group that moved into my neighborhood who does not now live in a nice home.

That I have not earned enough money to live on in any one of the last 6 years.

I Want to give good times and nice things to my “want-nothing” bride.

Want to have enough to pay for our needs when we are old and tired.

Am afraid to be broke.

Have regressed from an “uppercrust life” to a “middle class” life and I do not like being forced to remain here.

Feel guilt when I divert money that could go to my debts, for a much needed vacation.

INTRODUCTION

Dear Kids and Friends who read this:

Perhaps you’ve wondered why I wrote this …

Mainly it’s because there are times when people go through periods

when they don’t Learn a Lesson …

even though it was Taught Well.

I’ve written these “Jewels of Wisdom”

so that in case you didn’t learn some of them

at the time I taught them …

They’ll still be available to you and to your kids

when I’m not around to repeat those lessons.

DEDICATION TO MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

Basic Truths Don’t Change much from Generation to Generation,

and if you are Wise Enough,

you may be able to Learn these Lessons I Paid Pain to Learn

Without Having to Pay for it the way I Did.

Thus, you and your Loved Ones may indeed

“Stand on the Shoulders of Giants”

(as Sir Isaac Newton said) instead of beginning again at ground level.

A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN
Port Aransas June 15, 1977

I’m sorry that I can never give you the material things my parents gave me when I was your age …

a room of your own, some privacy, a financial legacy to start Life with.

And while in many ways you’ve had a more understanding and sympathetic upbringing

and a much more deeply personal relationship with your parents than I had with mine,

(which I think was largely caused ’cause your Mother and I were far more perceptive and enlightened than most young people who were “parents for the first time.”)

Still I feel the need to clearly communicate to each of you,

What I did Right and Wrong with my own Life
and reduce my feelings
to ink on paper and insert this in this book
I am writing for you,

so that when you are mature enough to appreciate it fully, this little history will be available to you to feed into your mind’s “computer data bank,”

not as an apology for the “wrongs of omission” I did you nor a justification that my lack of accomplishment on my family’s behalf was caused by “the-difficult-environment-I-was-in;”

It’s just “the facts as I see them”
so that you may weigh my errors,
and if you’re Savvy enough,

perhaps you can Skillfully and Adroitly Avoid Repeating my Stupid Mistakes.

I love you so very much,

My law firm once had an employee named Isabel who was repeatedly sick with many illnesses and also with “female” problems

and she ultimately had to have a hysterectomy

and her physician ordered to rest in bed for 6 weeks to recuperate.

As Firm Manager, I became uncomfortable when we called her house to ask her something about her work and her child told us she was driving her Mother around.

Then we called a few days later to ask a similar question and the child told us she had “gone to the Mall to look for a present for ‘someone’.”

So when she returned to work, I talked with her about using so very much “Sick Pay”

that I thought it she was abusing it

and that it made her “too expensive” to the firm because not only were we paying her while on sick pay and holding her job open for her return to work,

but that we also had to hire a temporary employee to perform her work while she was out “sick.”

That it was, in effect, “double cost” to the firm when she was “out”

and that the law firm simply couldn’t afford to keep her if she didn’t stop using illness as an excuse to get paid when she was not required to stay home.

She replied to me:

“Oh, Mr. Jorrie, that’s not part of my cost to the firm,

it doesn’t cost the firm any money …

that’s just an Employee Benefit.”

My law firm once had an employee named Isabel who was repeatedly sick with many illnesses and also with “female” problems

and she ultimately had to have a hysterectomy

and her physician ordered to rest in bed for 6 weeks to recuperate.

As Firm Manager, I became uncomfortable when we called her house to ask her something about her work and her child told us she was driving her Mother around.

Then we called a few days later to ask a similar question and the child told us she had “gone to the Mall to look for a present for ‘someone’.”

So when she returned to work, I talked with her about using so very much “Sick Pay”

that I thought it she was abusing it

and that it made her “too expensive” to the firm because not only were we paying her while on sick pay and holding her job open for her return to work,

but that we also had to hire a temporary employee to perform her work while she was out “sick.”

That it was, in effect, “double cost” to the firm when she was “out”

and that the law firm simply couldn’t afford to keep her if she didn’t stop using illness as an excuse to get paid when she was not required to stay home.

She replied to me:

“Oh, Mr. Jorrie, that’s not part of my cost to the firm,

it doesn’t cost the firm any money …

that’s just an Employee Benefit.”

Robert Jorrie
November 16, 1990