{"id":574,"date":"2023-09-15T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2023-08-25T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:42:38","slug":"ilona-cole-guest-author-story-147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/ilona-cole-guest-author-story-147\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilona Cole, Guest Author, Story 147"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Frederika\u2019s Birthday Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture below: Friedl at 16<\/h2>\n\n\n
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My dear mama, Mrs. Nietsche, and our governess Mrs. Kramer were all together planning a big party for my lovely sister Friedl, I called her my mouse when I was tender with her. It was her seventeenth birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foyer featured the grand piano and a most awesome Chinese screen in Chinese red lacquer, carved with gold and black figures and scenes, standing behind the piano, cutting off the view from the side entrance, kitchen, and guest bathroom doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the center was a large, round table with an onyx top, holding a beautiful Lalique vessel filled with seasonal flowers. The floor was highly polished wood, inlayed toward the center forming a star. This was the place, always decorated first. It was the entry into this lovely home. The home of two sisters Friedl and Ilona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White fragrant lilac in two floor vases, inserted, a branch of large orchid blossoms in white with a touch of green. On the center table, a Lalique vessel held some more of these breathtaking white orchid stems. A large chandelier coming down in the center glistening, the light and atmosphere in this space was calming. The space around the table was for the young people coming to the celebration to dance. Mrs. Kramer or mama will play the piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dining room table had also been decorated with white lilac and the same orchids on a white organdy tablecloth with a rose-colored underlay. The beautiful Meissen China looked lovely on that. Everything looked festive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two ladies, mama and Mrs. Nietsche, departed into the kitchen to create magic, the food. A variety of \u201cmelt in your mouth\u201d tarts and some vol-au-vents (puff pastry pockets) filled with cheese and spinach and some with lobster and a gruyere cheese cr\u00e8me or shrimp in a white wine cr\u00e8me. Little quiches with pear and blue cheese or jambo (French ham) and Swiss Emmenthaler cheese. A large bowl with pear, blue cheese and chopped pecans, fresh dill and fresh parsley salad. A tray with freshly baked, small brioche rolls, served with sweet butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first guests started to arrive. Some lady friends of Friedl\u2019s, Liesl the lady we went with on our escapade to the Odenwald (Ode to a Forrest) and a wonderful swimming facility and on the way home we dared and snitched cherries fresh of the trees and got sick. Irmgard, the good friend of Friedl\u2019s who always goes to the opera with Friedl, now both have season tickets for a box. Two young men, Philip, and David along with another friend of Friedl\u2019s, Eva arrived. Philip, her brother and David, Philip\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two more young ladies from finishing school came a little late. Margot and Anna, living in Bensheim by the Berg Strasse, that beautiful \u201cmountain road\u201d that runs along and through a fertile valley with orchards of peach, cherry, and plum trees, all the way to the old and beautiful city of Heidelberg. The two ladies came by streetcar and walked the rest of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the festivities can begin! I went upstairs to my room to study and do my homework. The beautiful piano music though kept me from doing my schoolwork, so I sat on my window seat, looked out on to the beautiful garden and the fountain, still dressed in their winter mode, and listened to the mesmerizing music. Mrs. Nietsche and my mama brought up a tray for me, laden with a variety of tarts and a wonderful vol-au-vent and mama had a plate with a piece of her delectable \u201cTorte Sorano\u201d. The base of this torte is many layers of almond meringue with layers of praline cr\u00e8me in between. Powdered sugar on top and topped with edible flowers, dipped in egg whites, sugar and dried. A symphony!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sat with my \u201cBearly\u201d my Steiff bear and enjoyed the music, the satisfying food and this dessert! The homework was right now not on my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That evening after Friedl\u2019s party and all her guests had gone, our conversation around the dinner table was about the Birthday Party. Friedl was one young, happy lady. I was incredibly happy for my dearest sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was 1942 and our future would only hold heartache and sorrow. Enjoying this day, this precious moment of happiness was well earned and well received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy birthday my dearest beloved Friedl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frederika\u2019s Birthday Party Picture below: Friedl at 16 My dear mama, Mrs. Nietsche, and our governess Mrs. Kramer were all together planning a big party for my lovely sister Friedl, I called her my mouse when I was tender with her. It was her seventeenth birthday. The foyer featured the grand piano and a most … <\/p>\n

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