Saving the passengers and the pets on the Ship Susan Gilmore in 1884

My 4^th Great Grandparents are Capt. Phineas Pendleton (1780-1873) and his wife Nancy Gilmore Pendleton, daughter of Lt. Peleg and Ann Park Pendleton. Phineas and Nancy had a daughter Mary who married Capt. Woodburn Carver.  Woodburn and Mary had Nancy Pendleton Carver who married Capt. Andrew Sherburne Pendleton and they had daughter Marietta Park Pendleton, who never married.

Andrew and Nancy's daughter Marietta Pendleton was born on July 4^th, 1868 on the Bark Thomas Fletcher in the Bristol Channel off Cardiff Wales.  Her father Andrew was the bark's captain.

Interestingly, Nancy Pendleton Carver Pendleton's brother, William McGilvery Carver, was captain of the Ship Susan Gilmore in 1884 when it was shipwrecked.  Capt. Carver swam to shore through the surf and carried a rope which he then tied to a tree.  With this small rope he pulled a larger line to shore, fastened it to a tree, and a breeches buoy was set up and hauled to and from until every person was saved, and then he went back and saved all the pets.  Our kind of man!

Note: Winslow Homer painting of a Breeches Buoy in 1884. 

My Great Great Grandmother's Recipe for a Very Good Sponge Cake

·        Three eggs

·        One and One-half cups sugar

·        Two cups flour

·        Two cups cold water

·        One teaspoonful cream tartar

·        One-half teaspoon Bird's soda

·        Salt

·        Flavor to taste

·        Take one cup of flour and sift the cream tartar well into it

·        Beat the eggs lightly and stir in sugar

·        Add flour and cream tartar mixture

·        Dissolve the soda into the water

·        Add water/soda, and salt and flavoring

·        Add the other one cup of flour

·        Bake slowly

·        Sprinkle sugar over the top when the cake has been in the over a minute or two

·        When done, the cake will have a light color and a sugary crust

This 1913 recipe is thanks to:

Emily Jane Pendleton Beach, my great great grandmother whose husband was Orin Utley Beach, Jr..   Emily was Esther Beach Eaton Bennett Homer's grandmother!

 

This is my great great grandmother's recipe.  It was published in the Knyvetta Cookbook in 1913, four years before she passed away in 1917 in Searsport. 

My mother used to talk about Emily' Jane's son, Capt. James Hervey Beach who worked for Standard Oil Company as a Captain and later a pilot on the rivers in China.  When Jim was 27, he married Eugenie Ella Staples who was born in Havre, France in 1875 and died in 1914 in Shanghai, China.  Their children were well liked by my mom. The three daughters were Ella, Doris and Helen, all of whom never married! My mom, Marjorie Emma Bennett, was named after Doris “Marjorie” Beach!

This photo is of my grandmother, Esther (Nana) being held by her mom, Emily Prudence, sister of Capt. Jim.  Looks like Capt. Jim's photo on the wall may be the one on the left.  This picture was taken on the family farm on Turnpike Road in Searsport.  Interesting.

  

Mom's Budget-Friendly and Easy Goulash

q     In 1 tblsp oil, cook (about 10 minutes) and drain:

q         1 1/2 pounds of hamburger

q         1 small onion chopped

q         1 green pepper chopped

q     Add: 

q         2 cans of Franco- American spaghetti

q         1 can spaghetti can of water

q         Season with Salt/Pepper

q      Simmer ingredients in the large fry pan for about 10 minutes

·                                  Serves about 4                                                 

                                                                                                           

This family recipe is thanks to:

My mom, Marjorie Emma Fuller, who never liked to cook really. 

Mom did easy stuff...often bland stuff like we tend to think of New England

boiled dinners  - not spicy!

This is her very easy, and I loved it always, goulash made with Franco-American 

spaghetti.  I never knew this; thought it was from thin spaghetti pasta. 

My sister knew her secret though!

Not sure Franco American Spaghetti in cans is still available, 

but anything similar would do - maybe even Spaghetti-Os!

                      

Bond Bakery and Nanny

Bond Bakery and Nanny

 My sister and I spent many an hour watching Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger, all in glorious black and white on the small screen – quite small screen at home.  Bond Bread sponsored Hopalong, and I believe it also sponsored The Lone Ranger.  Great times.

 Interestingly enough, this was the period in which milk was delivered to your door by the milkman and bread by the Bond Bakery truck driver.  We got the milk that way, but I don't recall the bread deliveries. 

 Not a problem though!

 Our grandmother, Alice Edith Southworth Healey, worked for Bond Bakery in Hartford CT in the 1950s or so.  On occasion we would pick her up after her shift ended.  Just approaching the Bond Bakery would cause drooling.  The aroma, oh my, so very wonderful. 

 Nanny would come out with her white bakery cap still covering her white hair.  She smelled wonderful to cuddle up to on the trip to her home or ours.  We likely ate a lot of Bond Bread when growing up, although I remember Wonder Bread as well.

 Our great grandmother Alvra, our Nanny Alice, Aunt Jane and “Uncle” Eddie had goodies when we would come to visit or spend the night.  One treat was the Bond Bridge Cookies.  We would play a game called auction bridge with Nanny and Jane and they occasionally served these cookies which were cut in the shape of clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades.  So appropriate.  So memorable.

        Alice with her Great Grandson Joseph efef