Re: [ranchos] FOOD:Mole/Pipian/Genealogy

[Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@...>]

My dad's mother was from Jerez, Zacatecas, and she died just before my 
sixth birthday so I don't have a lot of memories of her but here's one 
or two:
I remember her fixing something called atole, which I didn't like, but 
remembering it from a fog of some years' distance, I would say it's a 
healthy drink.  She also had prunes in her oatmeal, so when I'd pop in 
to visit her in the morning and she had some, I'd be served a dish of 
it and enjoy it.  I liked it better than my mother's porridge (which I 
realize now was a true Scots dish).  At special times, don't know what 
they were, Abuelita would have capirotada, which I didn't like too 
well.  Remember, I was just a kid!:)
I'll have to think about some more food...some of it was just the food 
from northern Mexico that my grandfather liked--he was from Chihuahua 
city.
I wish I had had the blessing of more time with my grandmother, maybe I 
would have learned things about her family in Zacatecas.  I believe 
even she didn't know a lot about her family history and I say that 
because my Tias, dad's sisters, don't know much about their mother's 
life in Zacatecas.  I'm the one who told my Tia Carmen that my abuelita 
had a full sister named Paula, a full brother named Jose (who died in 
1919)  and 2 half-sisters and a half-brother...they never knew!  People 
in the old country NEVER discussed anything private.  Marge:)