It always included noodles and tomato sauce. But each birthday, her mother baked her a Lincoln Log Cake, a chocolate jellyroll cake filled with sweetened whipped cream and enveloped by chocolate-coffee frosting. With some emergency telephone coaching from her mother, Elaine Elliott, Susan was able to serve the Lincoln Log Cake for a Christmas Eve gathering. But as adults, we usually learn what we did have. For large families, meals can present a challenge.
Many mothers know how to make food appealing, even on a shoestring budget.
Joan Herro's mother worked full time at home to raise 10 children. Joan's mother, Lila Rose Hudson, prepared meals that could top any restaurant, said Joan, the eldest child. She didn't make homemade pizza because the oven wasn't large enough for the number of pizzas they would need. However, it did hold two good-size cookie sheets. So Mom made sure that Friday night was pizza burger night. . . .