We cooked Jiggs dinner, a Newfoundland meal of salt beef, turnip, carrot, pease pudding and cabbage or in this case, turnip greens, grown in our garden. The flavour of the meal is familiar to our granddaughters now and they love the vegetables. They often eat the beef as well.
The highlight of the meal was our granddaughter, Caitlin and the jim jams. Both girls love dates, having eaten them with porridge since their earliest days. It was not a surprise when each ate a full cookie without saying a word. There were others available and both wanted more. Sylvia, cut a cookie in half and offered a piece to Caitlin, but she wanted nothing to do with it. She reached for a full one which we gave her.
Then Claire asked Caitlin for a bit of her cookie, to which two year old Caitlin said, "You don't want it," and shaking her head for no. She repeated this sentence as often as her mother asked. It is obvious, baby loves her jim jams.
Caitlin
The recipe for these cookies is from our granddaughters' great great great grandmother, Clarinda Moulton Mercer. She was born over one hundred and fifty years ago in Burgeo, Newfoundland. Clarinda could not have known how popular her jim jams would be so many generations later.
Here is my original blog post about jim jams and the recipe.
http://islandmusingswithmarie.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jim-jams.html
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