Patterns from plain people

Der Dutchman 1: modified hex sign?

Der Dutchman 2: quilted wall hanging

Custard

Old-fashioned Baked Custard Pie

3 cups milk

3 eggs

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons flour

[a few drops of almond flavoring]
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Pastry for 1 (9-inch) crust [optional]

Combine sugar and flour. [and salt]
Add beaten eggs.  [and a few drops of almond flavoring]
Bring milk to boiling point [scald] and add gradually to egg mixture [temper].

Pour into an unbaked pie shell and sprinkle nutmeg over the top. [or pour into 2 custard cups and a pie plate]
Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until an inserted silver knife comes out clean. [not liquid, but still jiggles a little when shaken]
Makes 1 (9 inch) pie. [or 2 custard cups and one pie plate]
                                                           Anna B. Showalter, Broadway, Va.

From the Mennonite Community Cookbook, edited by Mary Emma Showalter.

I bake the filling in two custard cups and a pie plate without the crust, in a water bath (bottom of a broiler pan).
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Here I am trying out my new Brause Blue Pumpkin dip pen nib with turquoise acrylic ink.  This paper was not made for dip pens.
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The purple pie plate was a shower gift from my friend from Syria.

Remembering Grandma

Mattias Adolfsson's class in Sketchbook Skool showed me the emotional connection between drawing and memory.  Penelope Dullaghan's gave me an appreciation of the fun of playing with patterns.

Here, I remembered Grandma: above, the rows of canned fruit and vegetables lining her cellar wall; below, the rows of women she sat among Sunday mornings and evenings, on the right side of the small Mennonite church nestled in the hills. I remember their names.

Small Cachet sketchbook I usually practice tv people in; graphite;  Ph. Martin watercolor on top, pastel pencil (with a little Uniball Signo white gel pen) on bottom.