Comments on: A Sugar Ad Worth Framing

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:09:46 +0000

Go to the DUP homepage – click “Bookstore and Gifts” on the left navigation. On the next screen, on the right-hand side, click “Pamphlets”.
It might be #65 “Pioneer Christmas Stories”.

Link to DUP bookstore for recipe books and more storybooks
http://www.dupinternational.org/bookstore/books.html

Also, this article talks about how hard it was to get sweeteners and how the pioneers worked hard to get sugar and molasses which were very precious.

http://www.meridianmagazine.com/articles/050727pioneerprint.html

By: Maurine

Maurine — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:02:33 +0000

The story about the pioneer woman sneaking molasses for Christmas baking or candy for the children in the whole community while the men were away, is told in one of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers books on Christmas stories. I have read it before, but don’t know exactly which book it is in.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:44:26 +0000

Heh, good one, Mina.

By: Mina

Mina — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:57:17 +0000

Agree with Clark. It’s a keepa!

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:30:16 +0000

Canned apricots… hadn’t thought of those in a while. This illustration needs to be added to the inventory of the Kepapitchinin Store.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:56:29 +0000

I don’t know that story, m&m.

By: m&m

m&m — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:44:13 +0000

Speaking of sugar rationing, in our Christmas concert, the story was told of women who sneaked molasses to make candy for the children at a difficult time. Does that ring a bell, Ardis?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:07:11 +0000

It was rationed, Johnna, but in season you could get more sugar for canning. (There may have been some mechanism in place to assure that you were using it for canning and not stashing it away for Christmas candy making, but if so I don’t know what that was.) The thinking was that the more food that was raised and preserved at home for civilian use, the more there would be available for military use raised and shipped through the usual channels.

By: Johnna

Johnna — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:00:54 +0000

But wasn’t sugar rationed? I’m confused.

I agree it would make a great framable art. Sort of an intermountain answer to “stay calm and carry on.”

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:19:44 +0000

Utah and Idaho — pure beet sugar.