Debbie92454
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This thread reminds me of the conversation I had yesterday with my 23 year old daughter. I told her about how amazed i was that my parents feed 11 people so well and on so little money.
I remember my Mom making cakes and pies from scratch, no box mixes back then.
Every Sunday dinner was fried chicken, home made mashed potatoes, green beans and a tossed salad. Sunday was family time.
Does anyone remember the "blue laws" where eveything was bascially closed on Sunday's except for some resturants and bars.
We had fried potatoes and home made french fires. My Mom made lots of homemade soups,chilli and beans.
Bologna sandwiches were often fried and had mustard on them.
They also had a garden and she canned everything she could as well as freeze what she couldn't can. Ther raised chickens, hogs and beef for food.
Homemade sausage is the best.
I also can think of how she managed to keep clothes on all kids without everyone just getting hand me downs. I can also remember her sewing things, including recycleing our bed pillows by taking them apart and making new cases for them. She had a regular ironing board but also what was called a mangle ironing board. That thing that the cleaners uses that shuts up. It also would come over top of the roller so you could put sheets on it and it would press them and move them through the machine like pushing material through a sewing machine.
It's funny what you can remember. Yes I am older. 53 to be exact. I remeber my grandmother making homemade egg noodles as well. She also had an old spindle sewing machine that you had to bascially peddle in order for it to run.
She taught me how to use it when I was 5 as well as how to chochet,knit and do crossstitch. The biggest thing she taught me was how to make quits and hand made braided rugs.
How many of you can cook on a wood stove? Yes I remember that and also was taught how to cook on them as well.
I remember my Mom making cakes and pies from scratch, no box mixes back then.
Every Sunday dinner was fried chicken, home made mashed potatoes, green beans and a tossed salad. Sunday was family time.
Does anyone remember the "blue laws" where eveything was bascially closed on Sunday's except for some resturants and bars.
We had fried potatoes and home made french fires. My Mom made lots of homemade soups,chilli and beans.
Bologna sandwiches were often fried and had mustard on them.
They also had a garden and she canned everything she could as well as freeze what she couldn't can. Ther raised chickens, hogs and beef for food.
Homemade sausage is the best.
I also can think of how she managed to keep clothes on all kids without everyone just getting hand me downs. I can also remember her sewing things, including recycleing our bed pillows by taking them apart and making new cases for them. She had a regular ironing board but also what was called a mangle ironing board. That thing that the cleaners uses that shuts up. It also would come over top of the roller so you could put sheets on it and it would press them and move them through the machine like pushing material through a sewing machine.
It's funny what you can remember. Yes I am older. 53 to be exact. I remeber my grandmother making homemade egg noodles as well. She also had an old spindle sewing machine that you had to bascially peddle in order for it to run.
She taught me how to use it when I was 5 as well as how to chochet,knit and do crossstitch. The biggest thing she taught me was how to make quits and hand made braided rugs.
How many of you can cook on a wood stove? Yes I remember that and also was taught how to cook on them as well.
No matter what brand.
