Eating in the 50's

[Looking4new]

The cat the dog food?

Cats, the other white meat!

 

[sixdogs]

Remember "American chop suey"?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I remember eating fried cornmeal mush with syrup. I also accompanied Mom to the local dairy farmer for fresh milk, in gallon jugs. She had him dip off a couple of jugs of cream to make butter. One dinner that we had often was beef tongue, which I never did acquire a taste for. One special meal was beef liver and onions. Occasionally I see it in a restaurant now and then, but not often. Of course everything we grew was canned. Since we raised hogs the freezer was always full.

I love fried cornmeal mush! My Dad called it "corn dodgers" and they were great with butter and fried catfish. Mom made the yellow corn meal mush the day before, and let it set up on the frige. She then made patties about half the size of a hamburger patty and deep fried them. It must be a Southern thing, but I rarely see or hear of it any more.

Oh, yeah. Have eaten a ton of Poke Salit in my time, and my Grand parents ate another wild green called "Lamb's Quarter".

 

[Leejohn]

The cat the dog food?

Well I have to say, you got me there !! Dog food.

 

[milkman]

Anybody remember horehound candy.......I love horehounds.......hard to find these days but still a few places that sell it.

I remember it, wasn't fond of it when I was a kid, but I like it now. Cracker Barrel still sells it too.

 

[Bird]

Have eaten a ton of Poke Salit in my time, and my Grand parents ate another wild green called "Lamb's Quarter".

I, too, have eaten lots of Poke, and like it. But I've only heard of Lamb's Quarter. If I ever saw any I didn't know it.

 

[/pine]

Anyone else harvest wild dandelion? My mother and grand mother always fixed it with a hot bacon dressing....it gets tough and bitter after it starts to bloom

 

[Bird]

I've heard of eating dandelion greens, but never tried them. How about sheep sorrel? When I was a kid, I made a cobbler of sheep sorrels a few times using a green grape cobbler recipe. The taste was good, but that green color wasn't very appetizing; too close to the color I saw every day when I went to milk the cow.

 

[/pine]

I've heard of eating dandelion greens, but never tried them. How about sheep sorrel? When I was a kid, I made a cobbler of sheep sorrels a few times using a green grape cobbler recipe. The taste was good, but that green color wasn't very appetizing; too close to the color I saw every day when I went to milk the cow.

If you look at the contents of some of the pre-mixed salad bags at the grocery store (especially the "spring mix" types) they often have dandelion, lambs quarter and other greens that are not common commercial varieties...

I think my favorite wild green is water cress...

 

[Budweiser John]

Enjoyable thread, and coming into this world in 1943, most of the posts struck a revelant cord.
I don't recall anymore mentioning home baked cookies but my paternal grandmother made the best in the world molasses cookies. They were as big as saucers with a raisin in the center and baked on an old match lit white porcelain gas range on legs with an oven on the side.
Her mode of operendry was a scoop of flower from an ole 'Hoosier' kitchen cabinet, a pinch of this and a dash of that, and a huge splash of blackstrap molasses all blended together by hand in a stone mixing bowl. Rolled out on a wooden board, cut with an old coffee can, and baked...
Food for the gods.

B. John