Playin’ in the kitchen: If I Had a Boat – Tony Furtado
My mother staunchly observed the rule, “Life’s uncertain, eat dessert first.” We often had pie, cake, or sugar-coated cereal for breakfast.
Every Sunday night, after dinner and my “beginning-of-the-school-week” bath, my brother and I bundled up in quilts, curled up on the vinyl sofa in the rec room and watched the Disney show. (Side note: I’m not sure how, but that sofa is still in the rec room, almost 40 years later. And still heaped with laundry to be folded.)
Whenever the Apple Dumpling Gang played my brother and I would scream, frantically, “MOM!!! The Apple Dumpling Gang is on!”
And my mother would know to assemble the ingredients and set her alarm clock, because she’d accidentally created a tradition — whenever the Apple Dumpling Gang came on t.v., mom made us apple dumplings for breakfast the next day.
I’m glad they weren’t the Brussels Sprouts Gang. Or the Mushroom Gang.
The recipe is from the Meta Givens Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking, copyright 1959.
