A humorous description of Norwegian American customs in Minnesota. Includes recipes.

Cream and Bread

Biographies & Memoirs

Martin, Janet

Todnem, Allen

Memoirs

Redbird Productions

About this book If you grew up in a Scandinavian community and remember that . . . . . . coffee was king, and tea was for the sick, the wimps, and town women who thought they were from Hollywood. . . . historically, the Scandinavian woman never went in for show. Put her in a beige dress, paint her fingernails with clear polish, splash on a dab of Evening in Paris, and that's about as much flash as you could ever expect to see. . . . anyone who could keep his cool in the middle of August in the John Deere implement shop when he heard that his combine parts wouldn't be in stock for two more weeks had to be pretty level headed. . . . it wasn't at all unusual to come into a small town and hear the bells of five Lutheran churches within a four block radius peeling "Faith of Our Fathers" at the same time . . . then, vaer sa god, and fill up on "Second Helpings of Cream and Bread."

Second Helpings of Cream and Bread

Humor & Entertainment

Martin, Janet Letnes

Humor

OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. AUTHOR SIGNATURE ON FIRST PAGE. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR &amp; SOME CURLING ON COVERS AND ON SPINE EDGES. TOP OUTER CORNER OF FIRST PAGE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED, NOT AFFECTING READABILITY. ALL OTHER PAGES CLEAN AND WITHOUT MARKING OR WRITING.

Shirley Holmquist and Aunt Wilma, Who Dunit

Literature & Fiction

Martin, Janet L.

United States

Janet Martin and Al Todnem wrote this book in 1992 and it's still going strong. Not only is it filled with the oldie but goodie recipes (including egg coffee and Watkin's nectar) from years ago, but it is loaded with humorous insights into proper Lutheran church basement etiquette.

Lutheran Church Basement Women

Janet L. Martin

Good old fashioned church recipes, tried and true.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Is It Too Windy Back There, Then?

History

Janet Letnes Martin

Suzann J. Nelson

Letnes, Janet L.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Our Beloved Sweden: Food, Flowers, Festivals & Faith

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

If you search for the word "coffee" in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah's Ark were married, and if you know that Heaven is up and Hell is down, you'll love Growing Up Lutheran. If the Lutherans you know seem rather, er, mysterious, it will do you good. Combining their own memories with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 1940s through the 1960s, Janet and Suzann have written a delightful expose of what it means to be Lutheran and how it's done. Endearing, often hilarious stories shine a light on Lutheran life from baptism ("And His Name Shall Be Called Gilman Einar Stedje") to death ("He Is Not Gone, He Is Only Away"). In between, you'll learn about Sunday School, Christmas pageants (a.k.a. "bathrobe pageants"), Bible Camp, Confirmation, and Lutheran weddings. You'll get the inside scoop on the Lutheran Church Basement Women ("a special species of people"), lutefisk suppers, pew protocol, church architecture, and much more. In the words of the authors, Growing Up Lutheran is "a mixture of ingredients that we had on hand, generously salted. . . . With gentle humor, and lightly pepperedâ€¦with quite a few hot granules of Lutheran theology." This is most certainly true.

Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?

Nelson, Suzann J.

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