An Old Cold Spot
My brother Mike emailed me this photo last night. He said this was a goodbye salute that he snapped today in his garage where this old freezer has been chugging away since 1988. That was the year our mama decided she was tired of bending over and digging through it. Besides, she no longer needed the capacity and hadn't for several years. Mike and my sister-in-law spent the next 25 years "digging" through this old freezer. My sis-in-law was very good at keeping it and the cupboards stocked. The two of them kept promising each other that "It is going to die soon, so we will just keep it until that day." Twenty-five years may seem like a very long life for a freezer. It is MUCH older than that. Sears only sold Coldspot through 1976. I thought that my parent's purchased this freezer in the sixties. My brother said he put the serial number 'on-line' and it matched a 1953 manufacturing date. Here is a close up of the make and model that
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2 cups berries
½ lemon (2 T for cheater bottle)
Place berries in greased 8x8 pan
Sprinkle with lemon juice
Mix together
3 T butter
¾-cup sugar
½ cup milk
1 c flour
¼ t salt
1 t baking powder
Spoon this mixture over the berries
Mix tougher
1-cup sugar
1 T cornstarch
Sprinkle over berries and batter
Take 1 cup boiling water and pour over all the above
Bake @ 350 for 1 hour
Any kind of fruit will do. I have used apples, blackberries, apricots, peaches, raisons.
Just need to adjust your sugar for tartness, and your cornstarch for juiciness. (Or in case of dried fruit like raisins… more water)
I was going to call her and find out if it was Czechoslovakian or something she'd picked up growing up in Nebraska