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     biscuits and homemade bread. Dessert 
     
     was a smorgasbord of chocolate or white 
     
     cake; date squares; molasses, sugar, or 
     
     oatmeal cookies; apple, raisin, lemon or 
     
     butterscotch pie; chocolate pudding; cups 
     
     of strong, hot tea, and, oh yes, cold, thick 
     
     molasses! 
     
    

    
     The evening meal was slightly lighter, 
     
     consisting perhaps of home-baked beans, 
     
     fish cakes, pancakes, bologna, hash 
     
     browns or several fried eggs. Again 
     
     there was bread, biscuits, dessert, more 
     
     tea and more molasses! Most families 
     
     enjoyed a snack before going to bed. Hot 
     
     chocolate, made by adding cocoa powder 
     
     and sugar to hot milk on the top of the 
     
     wood stove, was a usual night-time 
     
     beverage. 
     
    

    
     Special occasions saw the menu 
     
     enhanced quite considerably. Christmas