I didn’t have any breakfast this morning because I got up too late. I paced the deck part of the morning with Eleanor and Pop. The rest of the morning I read. After lunch I read until bridge time. After bridge I went out to see the animals and birds feed. I had to feed Eleanor tonight and between her meal and ours I had barely time to change for dinner. After dinner we played the usual round of games. Henry and I played double solitaire until quarter after eleven. It was eight bells before I finally got to sleep. June’s made friends with all the officers. I’ve met some of them. The first and second mate and the Chief Engineer are especially nice. June calls them Billy, Peter and Chief. June also has an apprentice friend called Harry. A nice looking boy about nineteen. All the officers teas her about him.
Jane's Notes: The scrapbook contains a dinner menu from this day. They served tapioca soep, rundergehakt, bloemkool, gek.aardappelen, rijst m/kerry, gebak, fruit, koffie. I get the fruit and coffee and maybe "soep" is soup. Can someone translate the rest?
What did we do before Google?
ReplyDeleterundergehakt = minced beef
bloemkoo = cauliflower
gek. aardappelen literally translates as nut potatoes
rijst = rice (no translation for m/kerry)
gebak = pastry
m/kerry: I think that's shortened for mit kerry, meaning with curry (high school German).
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it was my years in Holland when my dad was in the Navy. Met is Dutch and mit is German. Whatever, it means the same thing: with.
DeleteCurry was a favorite dish at our house although usually served when our Dad was not home for dinner. Rice was not to his liking and if we came home and found Mom cooking rice we'd ask, "Where's Daddytonight?" She told us all about the rituals associated with curry. We called the condiments "boys" because in India a "boy" would come to
ReplyDeleteeach diner with the next condiment to select for their curry. In Manila there were a number of British people among my grandparents friends. My mother always thought that British society with all of its rules about proper etiquette must have been something for her mother to adjust to, coming from rural Wisconsin and having been raised on a farm.