My Trails into the Past

This is the last post for the April families (Wollenweber & Voehringer), though a day late. But I wanted to get the last piece posted, after doing all the work. The previous post about Philippina, my husband’s 2x-great-grandmother, covered her timeline from her 1834 birth and baptism in Württemberg to her 1913 death and burial in Louisville, Kentucky. There were hints to some of her family who also immigrated to the United States. In the small village of Unterhausen in Schwarzwald, Württemberg, lived her parents, Johan Adam Vöhringer and Maria Agnes Reiff . To them were born eight children. [1] Philippina was the second child and was named the same as the deceased first child, Philippina Margaretha. [2] The church has family registers that list the couple at the top, then their children below. There are reference pages to other families, for example, the husband might be linked to his parents’ page, and the children once married, will be linked to their own family page. ...

Growing up, pancakes were a special Sunday morning treat. No homemade pancakes from scratch for us—not when Bisquick could do the trick. Mom used an electric griddle, making lots of pancakes at once. My favorite were the tiny pancakes made from the stray drips. I love anything miniature. A stack of hot cakes came with dabs of margarine between them, and homemade syrup from sugar and maple flavoring or imitation maple syrup from the store. We were too poor for real butter and maple syrup. Sometimes we had strawberry jam that hadn’t set well which made a good syrup substitute. With our own kids, we made pancakes from Bisquick but had real butter and maple syrup, though my youngest preferred powdered sugar on top instead. French Toast was preferred over pancakes and we used a recipe in the Cooks Illustrated cookbooks. Their paternal grandmother made Swedish pancakes, either the traditional dollar-sized ones from a special pan or larger ones from a crepe pan. She served them with but...