deer meat for dinner.

ttystikk

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I guess we can turn this into a kind of self sustaining thread. Some pickles, green beans, and tomatoes.


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My grandparents canned everything, even long after they were wealthy enough not to need to. The Great Depression left an indelible impression on a lot of people.

Pappy's garlic dills and fly fishing skills, plus grandma's chokecherry jelly and from scratch (how scratch? They built their house in the orchard!) apple pies. The stuff my taste memories are made of...
 

whitebb2727

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My grandparents canned everything, even long after they were wealthy enough not to need to. The Great Depression left an indelible impression on a lot of people.

Pappy's garlic dills and fly fishing skills, plus grandma's chokecherry jelly and from scratch (how scratch? They built their house in the orchard!) apple pies. The stuff my taste memories are made of...
Mad dad was raised in a one room shack with ten brothers and sisters. It definitely left an impression on him.
 

Jimmyjonestoo

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It was OK. It would do in a pinch. Just not my favorite. Others liked it. I don't know the exact recipe. Got a folder full of recipes for food, beer, wine, and corn whiskey that goes back a dew generations. I though about turning into a book.
Ive got a couple good wine recipes id love to see some of yours if they arent family secrets lol. Got an old apple press when grandad passed we use the hell outta it.
 

whitebb2727

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Ive got a couple good wine recipes id love to see some of yours if they arent family secrets lol. Got an old apple press when grandad passed we use the hell outta it.
I look through it. Most of it is from family. Lol.



I might be crazy, maybe not. I even save left over frog heads, fish, guts, minnows, crawdads an freeze them and save it for running trot lines or cat fishing.
 

Jimmyjonestoo

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I look through it. Most of it is from family. Lol.



I might be crazy, maybe not. I even save left over frog heads, fish, guts, minnows, crawdads an freeze them and save it for running trot lines or cat fishing.
Nah not crazy at all. I save hearts, livers and the such from our rabbits and use it for fish bait as well. Everything has it place/use. Id like to start tanning the hides and make a blanket or something.
 

whitebb2727

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Nah not crazy at all. I save hearts, livers and the such from our rabbits and use it for fish bait as well. Everything has it place/use. Id like to start tanning the hides and make a blanket or something.
Me to. No shit. Man I want buck skins and boots and the works. I think we need to hang out. Lol.
 

hempyninja309

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The Great Depression left an indelible impression on a lot of people.
Aint that the truth! My great grandma was born in 1911 and raised 6 kids not including my dad on her own my great grandpa was killed in a car accident when my grandma was 3. She used to always say "waste not, want not." She was such a simple and loving woman. We miss her alot but we where lucky enough to have her make it to 100.
 

ttystikk

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Aint that the truth! My great grandma was born in 1911 and raised 6 kids not including my dad on her own my great grandpa was killed in a car accident when my grandma was 3. She used to always say "waste not, want not." She was such a simple and loving woman. We miss her alot but we where lucky enough to have her make it to 100.
My grandmother sounds a lot like yours. She was born the summer before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, caught the Spanish Flu right after WWI and it almost killed her, had a bad heart from it the rest of her life. She was a farm wife in the Great Depression, got a college degree when that was rare for women and did a lot of good work in the local area. She held bridge club at her house for many years, into her mid nineties. Quit driving at 96, macular degeneration. She lived to 104 and ten months. On a bad heart? I'm sure that it had everything to do with her iron will.
 
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