Esther Kline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Esther Klein 1st Inst. Side 2, p 22 So my mother just took over the cooking and the baking, even though she was very young and she turned out to be quite a cook and a baker. But none of that rubbed off on the rest of her own family. LOR Is that right? EK Yeah. My one sister that passed away first, Elizabeth, she liked to cook and bake and everything and after my mother had gotten a little~ong in years, why, Elizabeth took over the majority of the cooking and baking. LOR Is this the sister who just died recently? EK No. It's the first one that died in '80. EK LOR Oh, I see./ And she liked, she liked to do thatkind of work and of course we all helped. I did most of the shopping and my other sister, she would keep the housework most of it and I shopped but we all helped. But Elizabeth was the main chief cook and bottle washer. No, she wasn't the bottle washer. Katie used to do a lot of the dishes. LOR Is that when you were growing up in the home? EK Uh-huh. And in those days, why, golly you just wonder about how our parents got along because we didn't have - I can remember this one lone light globe hanging in our bedroom and in our kitchen and double bed. On a single electrical wire and our bedrooms - we didn't have big bedrooms at all and two beds in the, you know, on this way and one the other way and then my brother slept on a couc in the living room in this particular home that I really remember. LOR And that was in Pueblo? EK No, that was here in Salt Lake. LOR Oh. So when did your parents move here. Were you born •••