Indiana Pitch-In Dinner Part 2
Courtesy of the New York Public Library
More from the sources on food from the America Eats records located in the Library of Congress. WPA writers collected these stories during the Great Depression. During the pitch-in dinner (or repast meal) the widower became naturally nostalgic recalling that her husband loved scrabble, mush made with gram flour and sauerkraut. It took her years to master the hear of making sauerkraut that her husband loved. “It’s all in getting just the right portion of salt and it and then I always wash three or four good, tart apples clean and put them in with the cabbage in different places in the cake. I can’t tell you just how much salt by weight to use in proportion to the cabbage but come over next fall and I’ll show you” she said to the young women who sat mesmerized listening to her.
