Beef Steak ~ from my Grandma Rigby's Recipe Scrapbook

Creamed Tongue

As I was growing up, my parents had a few sheep, their own cow and also calves.

Often times I would open the refrigerator door and 

see a beef tongue staring at me.

I don't ever remembering eating any tongue, but someone must have or they

wouldn't have saved it in the refrigerator.

From my Grandmother Rigby's Recipe book I found a recipe for

Tongue with Cream Sauce.  

Here it is:

Use canned tongue which comes in glass jars and heat it in a cream sauce.

Make cream sauce by thickening two cupfuls milk with 4 tablespoons full of 

flour and seasoning with 1 1/2 teaspoons full of salt and 3 tablespoons full of 

butter or butter substitute.  

"Bon Apetite"

Grandma Rigby's Clipped Recipes ~ Pasted into a Studebaker Catalog

My Grandmother Sarah Pritchett Rigby of Fairview was born  in Fairview   in  1884 .   Her mother died when Grandma was only seven years old.  She married Charles Martin Rigby and gave birth to seven children.  In 1920, her husband Charles Martin was in an accident in the coal mine.  He was crushed against the wall of the mine by a train car.  He was taken to Salt Lake in a horse and buggy, where he died.  Grandma Rigby seen many hard times in her life.  I found this scrapbook among her things.  She had pasted recipes clipped out of newspapers and pasted them into a catalog of Studebaker motor vehicles.

The recipes represent that time period (about 1928), But also, the way she had chosen to save them was ingenious and very conservative.  Perhaps it was nothing out of the ordinary for that time period.