Amelia Cokonougher's Mince Meat Pie Filling

When my mother Viola Hester first married and started housekeeping with my father Howard "Bill" Cokonougher in 1946 in Ross County, Ohio, she already knew how to cook.  Just like every other cook though, she was always on the look for new recipes.  Some of those new recipes inevitably came from her mother-in-law, Amelia I. "Miller" Cokonougher.  This recipe for Mince Meat Pie Filling was one of them.  From the very informal look of the recipe, my grandmother Amelia must have committed the recipe to memory rather than writing it down, and then recited it to my mother Viola for her to write it down.  I remember that my grandmother always had Mincemeat Pie on the table at the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day dinners at her house.                                                     Mmmmm good!           

Jacob & Prova Frost's gravestone

         This is the gravestone of my great-great-great grandparents JACOB and PROVA FROST. They were the parents of my great-great grandmother Phebe Frost Wisecup and the grandparents of my great-grandmother Mary Elizabeth Wisecup COKONOUGHER, all from Adams County, Ohio. This gravestone is in Steam Furnace Cemetery, in Adams County, Ohio at the intersection of state route 781 and Steam Furnace Road.  The GPS co-ordinates are Latitude 38.908955 (38 degrees 54 minutes 32.24 seconds N) by Longitude -83.407635 (83 degrees 24 minutes 27.49 seconds W), accurate to within 3 meters.  

         Jacob Frost's farm was reputedly located at one time where part of the town of Peebles, Ohio is now located.  

         After Phebe died when Mary was still young, Mary's father remarried.  Mary's stepmother was reportedly so abusive to her and her sister that her father Joseph Wisecup feared for their safety and asked their grandmother PROVA to take them into her home so that they could be raised in safety away from the stepmother.  Mary Wisecup grew up to marry Zachariah Cokonougher, son of Adtson (AKA Addison) Cokonougher.  The entire story is told in my book  "The Genealogy of The Family Of Ralph William Cokonougher", available on Amazon.com.