This week’s Grandma’s Kitchen block of the week by Pat Sloan is called Recipe Box and our stories are supposed to reflect that subject. I do not recall either Mammaw Cooper or Ma Neal ever using a written recipe but I still consider them two of the best cooks. Our meals consisted of things we grew or items we traded for.
I remember big bowls of gravy served with hot biscuits and fresh eggs gathered the previous day for breakfast. Dinner (served around noon) was usually the biggest meal of the day. We always had some kind of potatoes, either fried, mashed, or baked and a big pot of pinto beans and cornbread with freshly churned butter. Other vegetables would be whatever was ready in the garden. It could be corn, green beans, cole slaw, cooked cabbage, sliced tomatoes or a number of other vegetables. Lunch preparation was started as soon as breakfast was over because it took a few hours to cook pinto beans, green beans, soups or stews.
Supper was the last meal of the day and it was usually leftovers or a pot of homemade soup. There was no snacking or fast food between meals or after supper was served but I don’t remember ever being hungry. In the winter we ate stuff we canned or put up during the summer. For meat we killed a couple of hogs in the winter and we had chickens that had quit laying eggs or roosters. Each time I make chicken and dumplings or fried chicken I think about how lucky I am now that I can get chicken from the store instead of the hen house. 🙂
Thanks for visiting and reading about the ‘olden days.’
another gorgeous block which brought on some precious memories
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Thank you Claire
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Hi again,
Love the block! Those food memories make my mouth water. I can only imagine how good everything tasted – so fresh and yummy. ~smile~ Roseanne
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Thanks. We kept slim by producing all that wonderful food. 🙂
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Those memories have made me hungry! I never remember my Granny using recipe cards either. When asked for a recipe it was always “a pinch of this” or “a dash of that” lol! I still can’t make biscuits like she did! Beautiful quilt block and memories!
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Thank you Stephanie. I miss cooking the old way as everyone is on diets now but sometimes I just have to cut loose and cook up a storm. 🙂
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Those are some yummy food memories to go with another beautiful block. Cooking from scratch is so much healthier, even if your chicken comes from the grocer now.😉
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Thanks Kathy. My friends said they would weigh 400 pounds if they ate like that. My reply is, not if you worked as hard as we did to grow all the food. We were all skinny then. I don’t know what happened to me since then. 🙂
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I remember those farm meals too! So much work going on, you ate anything you wanted!
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