Apple Butter and Almond Milk

My son used Grandma’s aluminum colander with a wooden pestle to make apple butter for the fair. It’s a tool you don’t see very often in the kitchens of people my age, but your grandma probably has one. They can be used to make everything from jelly to cottage cheese. You can find many apple butter recipes online, but if yours doesn't involve putting cooked apples through a sieve, don’t expect a blue ribbon.

If you’re looking for a "modern" way to use a colander and pestle, you can make your own almond milk using this recipe. 

Cornbread for Supper

Grandma wrote a few of her commonly used recipes on the inside of the cabinet door.

The name of the evening meal is a common source of confusion between generations. For Grandma, dinner was the noontime meal and supper was the evening one. Dinner was the biggest meal of the day when men would come in from working and need enough meat and potatoes to get them through the rest of their labor. Supper was simple. Peanut butter and crackers, a bowl of Post Toasties, cornbread and sweet milk.