(Husbands Great Grandmother)
Mary Elizabeth McBride was the beloved daughter of Emanuel "Peppers" and Sarah Hatfield McBride. Elizabeth was the wife of Horace Milo Huntley they were blessed with five children ~ Edna, Florence Viola, Ray , Icie and Izma. She was a loving wife and a wonderful Mother to her children. She loved her family very much. She passed away at the age of 95 years. "Treasures of Yesterday" ~ This is a write up of our "Great Grandmother Huntley" in 1951 ~ The Bible quotes three score years and ten as a lifetime, so you could truthfully say that Mary Elizabeth Huntley of Wakita, Oklahoma has baked bread for a good long lifetime. She has been baking bread for more than 77 years. This spry, 86 year old women was the first to disclaim any honor being attached to such a fact. But when confronted with the figures that she had baked literally miles of bread during her time, she did admit that that was alot of bread. Anyone would when they stop to think that it takes 7,040 9-inch loaves to make a mile of bread. Mary Elizabeth began her bread baking career at the age of 9. Oldest of seven children, it became her task to bake the family bread when her mother contracted tetter, a form of eczema, on her hands. She was the family's official bread baker most of the time until she married at the age of 21. Those were the days of heavy bread eating, and when harvest meant lots of extra men, as did most of the heavy work season. So it wouldn't take long to figure that Mary Elizabeth had passed her mile of bread baking at home with her parents. Then she married Horace Milo Huntley and reared a family of five children ~ On top of baking for her own family Mary Elizabeth did quite alot of baking for bachelor neighbors. Her "huge" wages for that was to recieve a sack of flour for each sack baked up for the bachelor. It wouldn't stretch it a bit to figure her years of raising her family and baking for others could account for another couple miles of bread. Mary Elizabeth still bakes bread for herself and Horace, although she buys baker's bread for toast, because she says boughtin' bread "doesn't taste right". Perhaps it is because the quick method used by bakeries does away with that slightly acid taste common to breads baked with old fashioned yeast and starters. The first 30 years or so Mary Elizabeth used yeast that her mother taught her to make, starting from scratch with hops from the drug store, or else a starter made from that kind of yeast. Mary Elizabeth remembers that she sold and gave away alot of yeast when she lived on the claim her husband took in Old Oklahoma in the run of 1889. They lived halfway between Kingfisher and Guthrie, Oklahoma near a little post office called Zine. Later when they lived some six miles east of Wakita on what is remembered as the Bernard place. Mary Elizabeth said she ran out of yeast. She went down to her neighbor, Mrs. Lee Blaubaugh, who now lives at Renfrow, Oklahoma with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Rutherford, and ask if she could borrow some yeast. Mrs. Blubaugh told her that she didn't have any yeast but offered her a starter and instructed her in its use. Mary Elizabeth kept that same starter for some 20 years and lost it when a siege of bad flour plagued home bread makers. The starter which she has today has been in her possession more then 20 years. She secured that from Mrs. Shoffner when she lived west of Renfrow. If she lost that starter now, she would probably have to hunt to find someone who could give her another. The art of baking bread from a starter is fast being lost, probably because modern yeast is so much faster. Starter bread demands a sponge be set at night and then water added to it and then making the bread stiff and set it to rise in the morning. Even then it takes the better part of a day to bake, while with quick yeast it's a matter of a few hours, which of course accounts for modern bread lacking that slightly acid taste, so beloved by those who have always eaten starter bread. Starter bread has a taste of it's own and anyone so fortunate as to be able to buy a loaf of starter bread at a food sale is envied, by many, who probably envy the "Huntley's" who have starter bread all the time. Anyone who has been so fortunate as to eat with them can attest to the delicious fragrance of the huge brown crusted loaves of white bread Mary Elizabeth McBride Huntley bakes.
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A SPECIAL HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO Long Ago and Yesterday FOR THE SPONSORSHIP OF GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIAL.
YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS MEANS SO VERY MUCH!
Mary Elizabeth McBride was the beloved daughter of Emanuel "Peppers" and Sarah Hatfield McBride. Elizabeth was the wife of Horace Milo Huntley they were blessed with five children ~ Edna, Florence Viola, Ray , Icie and Izma. She was a loving wife and a wonderful Mother to her children. She loved her family very much. She passed away at the age of 95 years. "Treasures of Yesterday" ~ This is a write up of our "Great Grandmother Huntley" in 1951 ~ The Bible quotes three score years and ten as a lifetime, so you could truthfully say that Mary Elizabeth Huntley of Wakita, Oklahoma has baked bread for a good long lifetime. She has been baking bread for more than 77 years. This spry, 86 year old women was the first to disclaim any honor being attached to such a fact. But when confronted with the figures that she had baked literally miles of bread during her time, she did admit that that was alot of bread. Anyone would when they stop to think that it takes 7,040 9-inch loaves to make a mile of bread. Mary Elizabeth began her bread baking career at the age of 9. Oldest of seven children, it became her task to bake the family bread when her mother contracted tetter, a form of eczema, on her hands. She was the family's official bread baker most of the time until she married at the age of 21. Those were the days of heavy bread eating, and when harvest meant lots of extra men, as did most of the heavy work season. So it wouldn't take long to figure that Mary Elizabeth had passed her mile of bread baking at home with her parents. Then she married Horace Milo Huntley and reared a family of five children ~ On top of baking for her own family Mary Elizabeth did quite alot of baking for bachelor neighbors. Her "huge" wages for that was to recieve a sack of flour for each sack baked up for the bachelor. It wouldn't stretch it a bit to figure her years of raising her family and baking for others could account for another couple miles of bread. Mary Elizabeth still bakes bread for herself and Horace, although she buys baker's bread for toast, because she says boughtin' bread "doesn't taste right". Perhaps it is because the quick method used by bakeries does away with that slightly acid taste common to breads baked with old fashioned yeast and starters. The first 30 years or so Mary Elizabeth used yeast that her mother taught her to make, starting from scratch with hops from the drug store, or else a starter made from that kind of yeast. Mary Elizabeth remembers that she sold and gave away alot of yeast when she lived on the claim her husband took in Old Oklahoma in the run of 1889. They lived halfway between Kingfisher and Guthrie, Oklahoma near a little post office called Zine. Later when they lived some six miles east of Wakita on what is remembered as the Bernard place. Mary Elizabeth said she ran out of yeast. She went down to her neighbor, Mrs. Lee Blaubaugh, who now lives at Renfrow, Oklahoma with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Rutherford, and ask if she could borrow some yeast. Mrs. Blubaugh told her that she didn't have any yeast but offered her a starter and instructed her in its use. Mary Elizabeth kept that same starter for some 20 years and lost it when a siege of bad flour plagued home bread makers. The starter which she has today has been in her possession more then 20 years. She secured that from Mrs. Shoffner when she lived west of Renfrow. If she lost that starter now, she would probably have to hunt to find someone who could give her another. The art of baking bread from a starter is fast being lost, probably because modern yeast is so much faster. Starter bread demands a sponge be set at night and then water added to it and then making the bread stiff and set it to rise in the morning. Even then it takes the better part of a day to bake, while with quick yeast it's a matter of a few hours, which of course accounts for modern bread lacking that slightly acid taste, so beloved by those who have always eaten starter bread. Starter bread has a taste of it's own and anyone so fortunate as to be able to buy a loaf of starter bread at a food sale is envied, by many, who probably envy the "Huntley's" who have starter bread all the time. Anyone who has been so fortunate as to eat with them can attest to the delicious fragrance of the huge brown crusted loaves of white bread Mary Elizabeth McBride Huntley bakes.
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A SPECIAL HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO Long Ago and Yesterday FOR THE SPONSORSHIP OF GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIAL.
YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS MEANS SO VERY MUCH!
(Husbands Great Grandmother)
Mary Elizabeth McBride was the beloved daughter of Emanuel "Peppers" and Sarah Hatfield McBride. Elizabeth was the wife of Horace Milo Huntley they were blessed with five children ~ Edna, Florence Viola, Ray , Icie and Izma. She was a loving wife and a wonderful Mother to her children. She loved her family very much. She passed away at the age of 95 years. "Treasures of Yesterday" ~ This is a write up of our "Great Grandmother Huntley" in 1951 ~ The Bible quotes three score years and ten as a lifetime, so you could truthfully say that Mary Elizabeth Huntley of Wakita, Oklahoma has baked bread for a good long lifetime. She has been baking bread for more than 77 years. This spry, 86 year old women was the first to disclaim any honor being attached to such a fact. But when confronted with the figures that she had baked literally miles of bread during her time, she did admit that that was alot of bread. Anyone would when they stop to think that it takes 7,040 9-inch loaves to make a mile of bread. Mary Elizabeth began her bread baking career at the age of 9. Oldest of seven children, it became her task to bake the family bread when her mother contracted tetter, a form of eczema, on her hands. She was the family's official bread baker most of the time until she married at the age of 21. Those were the days of heavy bread eating, and when harvest meant lots of extra men, as did most of the heavy work season. So it wouldn't take long to figure that Mary Elizabeth had passed her mile of bread baking at home with her parents. Then she married Horace Milo Huntley and reared a family of five children ~ On top of baking for her own family Mary Elizabeth did quite alot of baking for bachelor neighbors. Her "huge" wages for that was to recieve a sack of flour for each sack baked up for the bachelor. It wouldn't stretch it a bit to figure her years of raising her family and baking for others could account for another couple miles of bread. Mary Elizabeth still bakes bread for herself and Horace, although she buys baker's bread for toast, because she says boughtin' bread "doesn't taste right". Perhaps it is because the quick method used by bakeries does away with that slightly acid taste common to breads baked with old fashioned yeast and starters. The first 30 years or so Mary Elizabeth used yeast that her mother taught her to make, starting from scratch with hops from the drug store, or else a starter made from that kind of yeast. Mary Elizabeth remembers that she sold and gave away alot of yeast when she lived on the claim her husband took in Old Oklahoma in the run of 1889. They lived halfway between Kingfisher and Guthrie, Oklahoma near a little post office called Zine. Later when they lived some six miles east of Wakita on what is remembered as the Bernard place. Mary Elizabeth said she ran out of yeast. She went down to her neighbor, Mrs. Lee Blaubaugh, who now lives at Renfrow, Oklahoma with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Rutherford, and ask if she could borrow some yeast. Mrs. Blubaugh told her that she didn't have any yeast but offered her a starter and instructed her in its use. Mary Elizabeth kept that same starter for some 20 years and lost it when a siege of bad flour plagued home bread makers. The starter which she has today has been in her possession more then 20 years. She secured that from Mrs. Shoffner when she lived west of Renfrow. If she lost that starter now, she would probably have to hunt to find someone who could give her another. The art of baking bread from a starter is fast being lost, probably because modern yeast is so much faster. Starter bread demands a sponge be set at night and then water added to it and then making the bread stiff and set it to rise in the morning. Even then it takes the better part of a day to bake, while with quick yeast it's a matter of a few hours, which of course accounts for modern bread lacking that slightly acid taste, so beloved by those who have always eaten starter bread. Starter bread has a taste of it's own and anyone so fortunate as to be able to buy a loaf of starter bread at a food sale is envied, by many, who probably envy the "Huntley's" who have starter bread all the time. Anyone who has been so fortunate as to eat with them can attest to the delicious fragrance of the huge brown crusted loaves of white bread Mary Elizabeth McBride Huntley bakes.
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A SPECIAL HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO Long Ago and Yesterday FOR THE SPONSORSHIP OF GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIAL.
YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS MEANS SO VERY MUCH!
Mary Elizabeth McBride was the beloved daughter of Emanuel "Peppers" and Sarah Hatfield McBride. Elizabeth was the wife of Horace Milo Huntley they were blessed with five children ~ Edna, Florence Viola, Ray , Icie and Izma. She was a loving wife and a wonderful Mother to her children. She loved her family very much. She passed away at the age of 95 years. "Treasures of Yesterday" ~ This is a write up of our "Great Grandmother Huntley" in 1951 ~ The Bible quotes three score years and ten as a lifetime, so you could truthfully say that Mary Elizabeth Huntley of Wakita, Oklahoma has baked bread for a good long lifetime. She has been baking bread for more than 77 years. This spry, 86 year old women was the first to disclaim any honor being attached to such a fact. But when confronted with the figures that she had baked literally miles of bread during her time, she did admit that that was alot of bread. Anyone would when they stop to think that it takes 7,040 9-inch loaves to make a mile of bread. Mary Elizabeth began her bread baking career at the age of 9. Oldest of seven children, it became her task to bake the family bread when her mother contracted tetter, a form of eczema, on her hands. She was the family's official bread baker most of the time until she married at the age of 21. Those were the days of heavy bread eating, and when harvest meant lots of extra men, as did most of the heavy work season. So it wouldn't take long to figure that Mary Elizabeth had passed her mile of bread baking at home with her parents. Then she married Horace Milo Huntley and reared a family of five children ~ On top of baking for her own family Mary Elizabeth did quite alot of baking for bachelor neighbors. Her "huge" wages for that was to recieve a sack of flour for each sack baked up for the bachelor. It wouldn't stretch it a bit to figure her years of raising her family and baking for others could account for another couple miles of bread. Mary Elizabeth still bakes bread for herself and Horace, although she buys baker's bread for toast, because she says boughtin' bread "doesn't taste right". Perhaps it is because the quick method used by bakeries does away with that slightly acid taste common to breads baked with old fashioned yeast and starters. The first 30 years or so Mary Elizabeth used yeast that her mother taught her to make, starting from scratch with hops from the drug store, or else a starter made from that kind of yeast. Mary Elizabeth remembers that she sold and gave away alot of yeast when she lived on the claim her husband took in Old Oklahoma in the run of 1889. They lived halfway between Kingfisher and Guthrie, Oklahoma near a little post office called Zine. Later when they lived some six miles east of Wakita on what is remembered as the Bernard place. Mary Elizabeth said she ran out of yeast. She went down to her neighbor, Mrs. Lee Blaubaugh, who now lives at Renfrow, Oklahoma with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Rutherford, and ask if she could borrow some yeast. Mrs. Blubaugh told her that she didn't have any yeast but offered her a starter and instructed her in its use. Mary Elizabeth kept that same starter for some 20 years and lost it when a siege of bad flour plagued home bread makers. The starter which she has today has been in her possession more then 20 years. She secured that from Mrs. Shoffner when she lived west of Renfrow. If she lost that starter now, she would probably have to hunt to find someone who could give her another. The art of baking bread from a starter is fast being lost, probably because modern yeast is so much faster. Starter bread demands a sponge be set at night and then water added to it and then making the bread stiff and set it to rise in the morning. Even then it takes the better part of a day to bake, while with quick yeast it's a matter of a few hours, which of course accounts for modern bread lacking that slightly acid taste, so beloved by those who have always eaten starter bread. Starter bread has a taste of it's own and anyone so fortunate as to be able to buy a loaf of starter bread at a food sale is envied, by many, who probably envy the "Huntley's" who have starter bread all the time. Anyone who has been so fortunate as to eat with them can attest to the delicious fragrance of the huge brown crusted loaves of white bread Mary Elizabeth McBride Huntley bakes.
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A SPECIAL HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO Long Ago and Yesterday FOR THE SPONSORSHIP OF GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIAL.
YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS MEANS SO VERY MUCH!
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