Dear Miss Blue,

How amazing, Miss Blue, that you mentioned the old fashioned doughnuts!  Just this very morning, right after having my second cup of coffee I suddenly yearned for a doughnut.  I never buy them at my neighborhood bakery; remembering the delicious homemade doughnuts I always made for the school picnic at the end of the school year. I have checked out my pantry to see if I have all of the ingredients to make the doughnuts; flour sugar nutmeg, cinnamon eggs milk and oil. The oil is for cooking the doughnuts; dropping 2 or 3 in the pot and watching the doughnuts become nice and brown, just like the ones in the stores only better!  And since I have everything to make the doughnuts I will this very day make the old fashioned doughnuts!  I'll save them for the next gathering down in the lobby. Coffee and doughnuts and all the news about the comings and goings in our neighborhood.

Love, Pearl

Remember the taffy pulls we used to have; buttering our hands and pulling the taffy until it was long and thin and dropping the taffy on the cutting board and cutting it into edible pieces 1/2 inch long.

xo pearl