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

A gathering of the Atwoods and their extended family iin 1928

On Mothers Day in 1928 the whole Atwood clan gathered at Mama and Papa's house in Comanche, Texas.  Atwood men at top are l. to r. Thurston in his Boy Scout uniform, Manning "Papa" Atwood, Edward Atwood and Watt Atwood, whom my father Thurston referred to as "the swamp rat."

Below is the photo of the whole group.  First Papa and Mama in the back row, then Frank "Watt" next to Ruth "Zamp" in the center.  The woman holding the baby boy is Alma Atwood Denny with her son Cleve B. Denny.  Thurston is the last one in this line.

In front left to right is Harold Denny, Alma's husband, Hipp Arthur with his first son John Manning and beside them is Ernestine Atwood Arthur.  Edward the eldest son is on the right seated.