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Show 54 The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey tern in the community's early history. A typical breakfast consists of eggs with bacon or sausage (cereal is becoming more prevalent), and the midday dinner includes meat, potatoes, vegetables, salad, and dessert. Leftovers usually suffice for the smaller evening supper. Roast beef is the favored meat; potatoes are invariably mashed and served with gravy; peas, carrots, corn, and beans are the main vegetables; and there are tossed salads and cole slaw. Melissa Tanner explained that she prefers roast because "it seems easier and then you have gravy to go along with mashed potatoes, and a salad and a vegetable with chili sauce, pickles, or something that you've canned." Sweet condiments, including chili sauce, relishes, and pickled beets, are often served as a complement to the meat dishes. Chili sauce in particular is a local favorite, and each cook has a different recipe that has been handed down from her mother or obtained from a close friend. Every meal is followed by dessert, generally consisting of home-canned fruit or pies. Favorite fruits include peaches, pears, strawberries, and raspberries purchased from the orchards in Brigham City. Pies have increased in popularity since the war; they range from old favorites like double-crusted cherry or blueberry pies to the more contemporary single-crusted cream pies. The most significant change in Grouse Creek foodways has been the decreased importance of family gardens. Much produce now comes from the supermarket in Oakley, Idaho. Mincemeat, venison, and a variety of fruits and vegetables used to be canned at home. Today canning is limited to fruit and condiments. A less significant change is the introduction of new dinner dishes like pizzas, tacos, and chow mein. As in most Mormon communities, quilt-making is a traditional home craft in Grouse Creek. Church groups have always sponsored afternoon quilting sessions. Until the 1940s, when the population declined, quilting groups met on a regular basis, but today the activity is more sporadic and depends upon special needs. Women gather to make a quilt for a wedding or a needy family, or when one member of the group has a pieced quilt-top ready for quilting. Tied camp quilts, made from heavy fabric for outdoor use, or quilts pieced from fabric scraps are no longer as common as in pre-war years. Today's favorite local style is made of plain tricot and quilted with a decorative design. Flowers are popular quilt-top motifs, and images of the various Latter-day Saint temples have recently been introduced. Summary Statements of Historic and Cultural Context In Grouse Creek, the architectural features helped the field team develop a sense of the three important periods in the community's history: a settlement era from 1875 to about 1900, a period during which the community was well established and stable from 1900 to 1940, and the wartime and postwar era from 1940 to the present. The log and dirt-roofed structures built between 1875 and the turn of the century showed how the first settlers relied upon local building materials and experienced frontier living condi- |