Post #27 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Some of my earliest memories are about cooking and food; it’s my mother’s gift to me. We made noodles by hand when I was very young. Moo (our nickname for Mother) rolled out the dough and sliced her noodles one at a time. My job was to unroll each noodle and lay it out to dry.
On Christmas, I cooked my very first souffle (vanilla), thanks to Matilda and my new Julia Child cookbook.
We bought our first hand-crank noodle maker when I was six. We found it in a little shop in New York City. We admired the beautiful chromed-steel Atlas Noodle Maker for a long time, then huddled like conspirators to weigh the cost versus the work of making our noodles by hand. In the end, we parted with the $25. That was a lot of money for a cooking gadget in the 50s. We used it together for years. Moo cranked; I caught. [click to continue…]
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