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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Jean Rea
Cooking with Jean
Eating the
healthy way,
according
to Mamma
What is eating
healthy? 1 am
so confused.
Mamma and my home
eonomics teaher said it
was eating good fresh
cooked, well-balanced
meals that made sure you
ate your daily requirement
from each of the four food
groups.
When I am asked if I eat
healthy and I tell what I
eat, I get a lecture.
While grocery shopping
one day, a lady stopped
me three times to advise
me that what I was pur
chasing was not good for
me. After the third stop,
I kindly said to her that
Mamama lived to be 86,
that I eat like Mamma
told me, and 86 was long
enough for me.
Make a good dinner
tonight.
Glazed Pork Loin
Roast
1 small onion
1/4 cup sliced celery
1/4 cup sliced carrots
1 3-lb. pork loin roast,
boned, rolled and tied
Salt and pepper
1 small bay leaf,
crumbled
1/2 cup pineapple
juice
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup apricot jam
1 teaspoon corn
starch
Arrange vegetables in
a lightly greased roasting
pan. Season roast with salt
and pepper. Place roast
on vegetables, fat side
up, and sprinkle bay leaf
over the top. Insert meat
thermometer, horizontally,
into one end of the roast.
Bake at 325 degrees for 45
minutes or until browned.
Turn roast over and bake
30minutes to brown bot
tom side. Turn roast over
again and drain off drip
pings.
Combine pineapple juice
and soy sauce. Pour over
roast and bake 15 to 25
minutes or until thermom
eter registers 170 degrees.
Remove roast from oven.
Place roast and vegetables
on serving platter. Cover
with foil. Reserve pan
drippings.
See MAMMA page 6C
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Moon Pies, boiled peanuts
and all that stuff
What 50 cents used to buy on a summer Saturday
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Charlotted Perkins
Lifestyle Editor
Way long time ago
when children
walked downtown
barefoot on hot sidewalks,
you could buy things to eat
for a nickel or a dime.
These were foods that
never showed up on the
table at home, and they
weren’t bought in bulk pack
ages, either. Some of them
weren’t even wrapped. We
didn’t call them snack food
or junk food or fast food.
We just made our choices,
stuffed our grubby little
hands into our pockets and
counted out the change.
One reason those things
tasted so good, I think, is
that it was the only time we
got to make choices about
what we ate. I grew up in
a loving family but I sure
don’t remember anybody
ever asking me what I want
ed to eat for dinner or mak
ing something different for
me if I didn’t like what was
put before me.
So, just choosing was a big
deal.
None of these foods cost
much, which was good
because we never had much
money.
The grownup dispensing
the allowance money would
always say something cau
tionary like, “Don’t
spend it
all in
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place,” ■
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“Don’t 1
let it 1
burn \
a hole
in your
pocket.”
But
Saturday
allowances
still tended
to disappear
by Saturda;
night.
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The drinks
Sometimes,
we got ice cold
drinks, dug out of an
open-top ice box. No vend
ing machines. Just wonder
ful shards of ice.
I was an Orange Crush
fan myself. Orange Crushes
came in a brown glass bot
tle and were, to my way
of thinking, vastly superior
to Nehi Orange, which just
tasted like orange Kool-Aid,
or its cheap cousin, Redi-
Aid.
In a pinch, though, Nehi
Grape would do. Royal
Crown Colas, known also as
R.O.C. colas were a good buy,
being taller than co’colas
and not quite as strong.
Co’cola straight from a
little green bottle was very
strong stuff back in those
day, and had so much car
bonation that it would
go straight up into your
nasal passages.
If you wanted it
poured over ice in a
glass, you had to go to
the drug store.
There were no cans,
no plastic bottles.
All of these drinks
were in glass bottles
with metal caps that
had to be pried off
at the bottle opener V*
attached to the ice
hox.
The bottles were
recycled way back
then and we always
looked on the bottom
of the co’cola bottle to
see where it was bottled
- hoping it had traveled
from some far-away place
like Alabama or Texas.
(Most of the time where I
grew up, they were just from
plain old Fort Valley.)
The food
As for the food, my sis
ter and I remember Ike and
Mikes with great fondness.
We called them Ikeymikes.
They were two gingerbread
men held together with some
kind of marshmallow filling.
Ikeymikes have disap
peared from the face of the
earth, although you can still
buy their famous cousin: the
Moon Pie.
A Moon
Pie was, and is,
just a big and round, frosted
cookie-and marshmallow
goo sandwich. I loved them
as a child.
They’ve made a major
comeback and are sold in
boxes at grocery stores.
Since Moon Pies have some
how become a southern icon,
along with R.O.C. Colas, I
Whether you are dining
formal or casual,
{ .Barbara at Jones
Jewelers has the china
and crystalpattern
fust for you. She also
has a bridaf registry
with the brides’ pattern
selections set up for
you to shop from.
SPORTS
thought I should try one
with an adult perspective.
Speaking as a grownup:
Moon Pies are still pretty
good, but for my
money, they
can’t
hold
a
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can
dle to a
Mallomar.
Moon Pies
were mostly kids’
foods. Grown men, mostly
farmers, used to sit on the
curb, or in the shade of the
depot’s overhanging roof,
making a meal out of a tin
of sardines, a wedge "of
cheese and a handful
Sardines turned
out to be nutritional power
houses.
They were eating well.
Who knew?
For us kids, though, nutri
tion had nothing to do with
it. The real lesson was an
economic one.
Let’s say you were lucky
enough to have been handed
one of that most beautiful of
all coins: the 50-cent piece
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with Walking Liberty on one
side.
Twenty cents at least
would
g o
for a picture show
ticket to watch Roy Rogers
and Trigger, or Gene Autry
and Champ, with a Tom and
Jerry cartoon and a seri
al. (With any luck at all,
the serial could turn out to
be Johnny Weissmuller as
Tarzan.)
A dime would go for pop
corn, and a nickel for a drink
in a paper cup. (Seems to me
that it was watered down
of soda crack
ers. Some
of them
used pocket
knives as
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I and forks.
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■ and Soda
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2006
co’cola. ) That would leave
15 cents, which meant that
if you made your drink last
through the over-salted
popcorn, you could still buy
a Moon Pie or a small
damp brown paper
bag of boiled
peanuts
when you
left the
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show.
And if
you settled
for a drink
of ice cold artesian
water from the flowing
well, you could get a grape
popsicle for a nickel from
the little store that was
halfway home, which also
meant you would have two
more popsicle sticks for
your popsickle stick col
lection. In those days pop
sicles had two sticks, and
theoretically could be bro
ken in half to share with
somebody else.
I say theoretically because
I don’t remember sharing,
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