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09-11-2012, 03:48 PM #11
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09-22-2012, 08:20 AM #12
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Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
Bird Remember the WW11 Ration stamp book where everyone received a book for purchase of anything.
Need gas took a gas stamp food took a stamp for coffee, meat, items of clothing stamp for pair of shoes.
My parents in fall of the year butchered hogs and calves and canned the meat in wide mouth jars and tallow poured to seal the jar.
The hams and ribs were salted down with Morton salt wraped in cloth and hung in smoke house to cure with a small hickory chip fire to smoke the meat.
When we took the single shot .22 to hunt rabbits only one shot allowed .so be sure what you were aiming at.
Also all the metal, card board. clothing donated for the War effort.
And hay was put up in stacks and all the kids were used to pack the hay by walking across the stack until packed.
corn was put in shocks and used as needed.
molasses made by growing sorgram and at the proper time going to field and topping the heads and cutting the leaves off. Then taking a knife and cutting the stalks to haul to the press and squezing the juice out. powered by a mule walking in a circle to run the press. then poured into a large copper pan heated by burning rich pine and oak fire wood. to boil off the water. until the syrup was the correct thickness.
Of course walking or riding a bike with out fenders to school and it was uphill both directions.
always muddy with a cold wind blowing.
Tell g-kids of this and they just look at you cannot conceive such a life.
No after school programs. to cause mother to drive them to and wait until it is over .
No cell and usually no phone in house. didn't need to call every one that you are on the way to wal mart. for a pizza for evening meal.
just a few memories.
ken
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09-22-2012, 08:50 AM #13
Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
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09-22-2012, 05:54 PM #14
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Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
I sure remember the hog killing, and back then, the first six of us kids was born at home, only the last three were born in the hospital. The Dr. would come as far as he could in his car and then borrow a horse and ride it to our house if it was muddy. As for the hog killing, we had a meat house and in the center was a platform suspended from the ceiling by wire (that kept the mice and rats off the meat) that held all the slabs of meat salted down. We would grind the sausage and render the lard all the same day so it was always up in the night when we were done. The next morning we had fried tender loin for breakfast and dad got the brains and scrambled eggs. The hams and shoulders were sugar cured, but I don't remember getting to eat the hams, seems the Dr. got those for the delivery charge.
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09-22-2012, 07:11 PM #15
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Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
'Bout this time every year my family would pick apples by the bushel, then core and peel by the bushel, then pops would get our huge ( I mean HUGE ) copper kettle set and the fire going, the it was apple butter and apple sauce makin' time...can't tell you how many quart mason jars we made ! That was in the hills of West Virginia back in the day !
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09-22-2012, 08:38 PM #16
About this time every year, we head to Costco for meat. The meat is in big pieces. We have to haul it home in the back of the truck, rambling along pot holed roads, past McDonald's and Arby's to our house. We unload the meat into our custom kitchen with hickory cabinets and proceed to cut up the large pieces of meat into meal sized portions and putting them into vacuum seal bags. Sometime this process takes as long as two hours, all the while watching tv and drinking Starbucks coffee. Then we have to haul all that meat to the freezer and arrange it so it all fits. We package the bacon, chops, shoulder and roasts and place them just so carefully into the freezer. This process in draining, and when we're done we head to the yogurt shop for some vanilla yogurt with candy toppings and processed whipped cream. It tastes so good. Possibly the best flavor ever. Then we head back home and spend the next 4 hours watching more inane tv and texting on our iPhones. We play scrabble on the phones too. Ahhh. What a day! So satisfying and fulfilling. We've really come a long way since you guys with your hog killing and vanilla snow milkshakes and the women actually cooking food and serving it to you. Kinda sad huh?
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09-22-2012, 10:26 PM #17
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Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
Does anyone remember when buying a watermelon, the seller would "Plug" the melon for you before buying? I remember when this was the normal practice at not only roadside stands but grocery stores also.
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09-22-2012, 10:42 PM #18
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Your post brought back memories. I was raised in East Tennessee and I can remember stirring the Apple Butter and Peach Butter with a "Stirrer" to prevent the Peach or Apple butter from sticking. The "Stirrer" was L shaped with a brace. The Apple or Peach butter that is sold in stores nowadays can't even come close to the "REAL" kind that we used to make. I have two Brothers still living in East Tennessee and they both still send me some of the olde fashioned made kind. My youngest Brother's in-laws still make Apple Butter the old fashion way each year. My other Brother sends me 12 quart jars every year that the Church makes. There is nothing better than home made Peach Butter or Apple Butter on a real homemade biscuit. Thanks for bringing back memories.
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09-22-2012, 10:59 PM #19
Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
My brother and went to school in SW Missouri in the mid 40's; we walked 3/4 of a mile to and from the bus stop every day. In the Fall, we used to stop and pick our lunch buckets full of possum grapes and take them home, where Mom used them to make some of the best jelly you ever ate. We also picked up black walnuts and sacked them up for my Grandpaw who paid us $1.00 per gunny sack full. He would pour them out on his driveway and after they had been run over a few times, the green hulls were mashed off and they could be retrieved and stored. Winter was hard there; we lived at the bottom of a steep hill and we would get snowed in for days at a time, until the neighbor would break open the road with his tractor. No TV in those days; no hot water and we heated with a pot belly stove. Mom cooked on a kerosene stove. I remember Dad killing and dressing rabbits in the Winterand hanging them on the screened in back porch, where they immediately froze and stayed frozen for weeks. Ah, those were the days.
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09-22-2012, 11:03 PM #20
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Re: Does anyone remember? I do. Share your memories..
Creekbend, I agree with you whole heartedly ! Our "stirrer" Was a wooden paddle... By the end of the day we all smelled like a combo of smoke, apples, cinnamon with an overtone of sweat, lol
Good stuff
Rich
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