Refreshments were served later to all in attendance. The dandelions need a good rain and warmer weather to make them grow faster. The first younger ones always taste the best. We make a dressing of sour cream, vinegar, milk and salt and add the dandelion greens and hard-boiled eggs to it. Some put a hot gravy over the dandelions, but we prefer salad dressing.
Dandelions go good with potatoes and some kind of meat.
We prefer bacon or sugar-cured ham and ribs. Some make jelly with the dandelion greens. A lot of other women and girls are also assisting, which includes baking pies, peeling potatoes, washing and cutting celery sticks for the table decorations and dicing up onions, celery and carrots for the dressing. Always plenty to do at a time like this. I'm to be one of the cooks at the wedding, and my daughter Verena will be one of the tablewaiters.