My grandma also made a sweet Easter Cheese with raisins in it.
Come to think of it she made alot of good stuff.
Chili sauce - Great in bean soup
Apple butter - Made it in a huge copper kettle, had to be copper or she said it would not work
OMG dill pickles, we used to grow a ton of pickles and our own dill weed and garlic. Hers were never cooked, cold pickled in crocks kept in the walk in cooler. She used to make about 5 - 5 gallon crocks of dill pickles a year.
Sweet pickles, pickled watermellon rind
Canned enough peaches in mason jars to feed Etheopia
Canned tomatos
We used to pick up peacans form the trees across the road.
My uncle was the baker, he used to make a Red Velvet Cake that would make you slap grandma if she went for the last piece.
We smoked our own hams and bacon. I had to go out and put more chips in the burner every hour.
We always had chickens, when they stopped laying they got turned out to fend for themselves. It was then I learned that an old big chicken is not that good to eat. I killed a free ranger by accident and I took it to grandma and was upset because she didn't want to use it. She had pity on me and we cleaned it and plucked it. She boiled that monsterous chicken for hours and you still could barely eat it. She diced it up and we had chicken soup.
I miss those times. Except the parts that sucked.
I think I just realized why everyone in my family is "big"
