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Show The Survey's Findings 53 Home. Grouse Creek ranches are small family-type operations that demand a partnership between men and women-a working relationship between husbands, wives, and children. The men's domain is primarily outdoors and entails working with horses, cattle, and hay. The women's domain is indoors and includes child-rearing, food preparation, and maintaining the home. Marge Thompson said that young girls were supposed to stay around the house and avoid "corral talk." Today, as in years past, circumstances sometimes force women and girls to help out with "men's work" on the ranch, but their main responsibility remains in the home. The Mormon home revolves around children. Girls marry young, and a premium is placed on large families. Women have the primary responsibility for raising the children, especially when the children are very young. Fathers are eager to teach their sons the ways of the ranch, and it is not uncommon for the boys to begin riding soon after they learn to walk. Girls perform many household duties and take an active part in raising younger siblings. The community's shared sense of values means that parents trust their neighbors to instruct or discipline their children when the need arises. These ideas and practices have remained relatively unchanged since the time of early settlement. Food preparation takes up a large part of each mother's daily routine. Meat is at the center of Grouse Creek's diet. The availability of perishable home-butchered beef, coupled with a life of strenuous outdoor labor, helped reinforce this widespread American pat- Kathleen Tanner's Chili Sauce Recipe This recipe, similar to others in Grouse Creek, was passed from Melissa Tanner to her daughter Kathleen. 9 medium sized ripe tomatoes, peeled and pared 3 medium sized yellow onions, peeled and put through grinder 2 cups sugar 2 cups cider vinegar 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon allspice 2 tablespoons salt Combine all of the ingredients. Boil "fast" until the mixture starts to thicken; then boil slowly and stir. Be careful not to scorch. Cook until desired consistency. Prepare canning jars and fill with mixture. If the lids don't seal, hot pack the bottle for ten minutes. |