Who is Marian Rock

This blog is dedicated the woman who taught me many of the secrets of good tasting food--my mother, Marian Rock. Marian left us in 2008, but the tastes of her many preserves, jams, pickles, relishes, soups, dinner dishes and desserts still linger with those of us who were lucky enough to share her table. She left behind a tattered old recipe book that contained many of the secrets passed onto her by her mother and grandmother. For the most part, this blog will contain many of those secret recipes and because I have inherited my mother's passion for cooking and good food, a few from myself that I've gathered over the years

Marian and Donald  had five children and like many farmers in those days a very busy schedule. Marian's hours were filled with a multitude of chores which included rising very early to cook breakfast for us all and send us off to school, assist in milking the cows, cleaning, tending a garden, working in the fields and making sure we had enough preserves put away for the winter.  She always had a wonderful garden and an abundance of apple trees that her father had planted.

We lived in a small, one storey farmhouse. So small, that none of us had a bedroom untill we were teenagers and my Dad divided the existing livingroom into three rooms-one for my sister, Judy and I and one for my older brother, Bill. The other two siblings came along shortly after.I think they occupied the livingroom couch and a crib in my parent's room.  When my grandfather died, we moved to his very large house on a bigger farm.  I still shared a bedroom above the kitchen with my sister where we had a constant reminder of good food smells wafting up through the floor register.

There was an even bigger garden there

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