“We ate lots of bean soup; we grew our own ‘Lazy Wife Beans.’ They would be planted at the edge of the cornfield so they’d grow up the stalks and get plenty of sun. That way you didn’t have to cut your own poles! But now you can’t do that because they spray the corn. “Bean soup was often our Saturday noon meal—with schnitz pie! It was an easy meal. The beans could cook while you cleaned. The pie, of course, had been made the day before.”