the three Atwood sisters: Ernestine, Ruth and Alma

His three sisters all outlived my father….and lived into their 90's.  Sitting in a swing on a summer

day  around 1990.  Ernestine (married to Hipp Arthur)  was eldest.  Alma (right, with the bright smile) was next, and Ruth was the youngest. She was a couple of years older than Thurston, my father.  He was the youngest Atwood child, born in 1914.

Mama Atwood's raisin bread recipe

The Bread Frank likes best is made This way.:

Whole wheat Raisin bread:

One or two eggs

One cup buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon soda

salt to taste

1-1/2 cups of whole wheat flour and as much sugar as you can take up in one hand,

1 cup raisins

a little shortening.

This is a recipe of my own and Jack (Ernestine) and Frank is absolutely crazy about it. Jack will fill herself so full of it till she can't eat anything else.  I make it exactly like I do corn bread except I put raisins in it.

I make lovely whole wheat raisin Light bread but this is as good and not nearly so hard to make.  Besides This flour contains every bit of the whole wheat, and the Light bread always has to have white flour.  If I fail to make this bread one day Frank says “Mama please make some more raisin wheat bread”.  But he does not care much for the Bread with out the raisins and sugar