The days of the kitchen wall mounted, black telephone landline is quickly fading into the past.
Columnist Philip Potempa’s parents Peggy and Chester were guests at the San Pierre Alumni Dinner and Railroad Scholarship Ceremony on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the San Pierre All Saints Catholic Church Hall. Philip Potempa/for Post-Tribune)We still have our traditional telephone landline, as do a few of our neighbors, like the Scamerhorn family; however, most of our rural friends removed their landlines long ago in favor of only retaining their cellular phone service.
This Mother’s Day 2024 has me thinking about Ma Bell and how connected my mom and our farm family have remained throughout the last century via telephone communication. My mom still enjoys hearing both her landline and her cellphone ring . My mom and her oldest sister, my Aunt Ruby, have an extra special connection with testimony of how traditional telephone landlines connect friends and family, in addition to Aunt Ruby’s kitchen in her Highland home having a wall-mounted black original rotary dial telephone still in use. Their mom, my Grandma Green, was the “Ma Bell” of their tiny hometown of Wheatfield, Indiana.
My older brother David provided my mom and me with a “recipe break” earlier this month by sharing his easy recipe for preparing cube steak using a slow cooker. Our family grew up with our mom’s cube steak as a Monday night menu staple. Packaged at the meat counter as “tenderized,” the steak patties cook fast, but have a traditional tendency to still be tough.
Brother David’s recipe allows the layered cube steaks to simmer “on low and slow” overnight for eight hours. While the patties, once served, will be about one-third smaller in size after cooking, this method assures delicious results that “can be cut with a fork,” as David describes.
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