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In my mind, I can't separate Thanksgiving from Christmas. I know we spent many years as a nuclear family as no relatives lived close. After I was married, my parents moved to northern Kansas and were close to my dad's family. Then I have pictures of my parent's house in Waterville, Kansas filled with all kinds of relatives, in-laws, too, and my favorite aunt and uncle. There were tables in all the downstairs rooms of the house. My mom was not a very adventurous cook. As someone else remembered, the dressing went into the turkey. If it didn't it was too dry as my mom only used white bread browned in butter/oleo, giblets, celery, raisins, salt, poultry seasoning and broth from cooking the giblets. Turkey preparation usually started before 6 a.m. as the turkey had to cook a very long time to be done the way my mom wanted it. My dad always helped. There would be many pies, usually pumpkin, but my immediate family preferred pecan.
Things were different with my in-laws. There the dressing was never in the turkey and now we had cornbread dressing which I definitely prefer. One other crazy memory is going to visit my brother Stan and his wife who fixed dressing with canned oysters. We have never forgotten that as a family. Of course, we were polite about it, but did not imitate it. One of my favorite memories, whether it was Christmas or Thanksgiving, is of all the Larson aunts being in the kitchen together, with each person working on some part of the meal. Each aunt had a specialty and my uncle Glenn had his brown beans. That was a good time! --Carolyn
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