| Show She was notstern straight-laced woman She was just grandma But as withlot of pioneer women she carried over the hard days of both her youth and her life with my grandfather for nearly sixty years throughout her life What my grandmother did bake however were cakes Apparently that term was used in the days when frivolity was atlower ebb than now My grandmothercakes were one-of-a-kind donmean there was only one but every batch was the same could always count on the same texture the same sugar on top and the same warm feeling whether the cakes cookies were warm or cold If Mrs Fields had the recipe for my grandmacakes she wouldnbe in bankruptcy now Whenwent off to college at Brigham Young University my grandma always made surehadsack of her cakes cookies to take back to get me through the week She didnmakebig fuss because being fussy was also frivolous But every weekendwas home which was every weekend would go back with clean clothes 12 or 14would earn from playingcouple of dance jobs andsack of grandmacakes My grandma was born Ida Victoria Jensen January 1867 in Gunnison Her parents Rasmus and Ingar Hansen were immigrants he from Denmark and she from Sweden didncome to America together but met later When they they lived in several southern Utah towns but finally moved Gunnison where they resided until their deaths 20 Jensen They married to My grandmother was the oldest of four children and in those days it meant that she took on much of the responsibility of helping to run the house When she was sixteen years old both parents died within two months of each other in 1883 This left-my grandma with the responsibility of being mother and father to her two younger sisters and younger brother |
