Five and Dime Quilt

Rochester New York lies on the southern shore of Lake Ontario where it receives plenty of precipitation year-round. Six months of the year (at least) it comes down in the form of snow. An average of four days a year the temperature dips below zero (Fahrenheit) there, and odds are all four of those days will hit in early February. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Rochester tends to go a little stir crazy at this time of year. One snowy Saturday morning in Rochester, February 1966, Florence Rappaport’s six children were suffering from cabin fever. She decided to shake things up by serving ice cream for breakfast. It was such a hit they made it an annual family tradition. Florence’s children shared their odd holiday with friends in college, and her grandchildren made Ice Cream for Breakfast Day an international celebration. I might celebrate with vanilla ice cream on a waffle, with warm apple pie filling.