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[betsuni]

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[irisblue]

1. Pa going and taking grain from someone hidden stash

Not a lot, enough to keep his children from starving that winter. Thank you betsuni, I haven't thought of that book in years.

[betsuni]

3. You're welcome. A few years ago a bought a copy and was surprised to find that I

enjoyed it just as much as I did when I was 12. I also bought "The Little House Cookbook" that has a recipe for The Long Winter bread. I have a coffee grinder and some wheat berries, but I've failed a couple of times at making good sourdough starter. One of these days I'll try again.

[dem in texas]

2. Late Mother-in-Law's Food Tales

My late mother-in-law grew up on Rushing Creek in Western Kentucky. The area where she grew up is now part of the Land Between the Lakes Park. Her family was dirt poor and lived in a log house with a "dog trot". Like so many farmers in that area, their major cash crop was dark-fired tobacco. Her father supplemented their food supply by going in the woods and shooting wild game and catching fish in the rivers,.

Beatrice, my mother-in-law, knew how to cook just about anything. My late father-in-law belonged to a hunting club and once a year they'd have a wild game dinner and my mother-in-law would be called on to do the cooking as she was the only once left who knew how to properly cook squirrel, possum and raccoon, even pigeons, Her squirrel was especially good, she'd boil the meat until tender, then drain it and put it in a roasting pan, sprinkle on milk and season it and let it brown in the oven. The sugars in the milk made the meat brown to a crispy finish.

But what I loved most was how she said they cooked in a large fireplace. They did not have a cook stove but used large, deep fireplace. The fireplace was fitted with iron hooks that could swing to the front of the fire, then swing back in. Iron pots would be hung on the hook and swung over the coals to cook the food. She told me so many tales about the old ways to cook and preserve food, I wish I'd written them down or recorded her tales, This was in the 1930's and early 30"s, but they were using two hundred year old cooking techniques.

[betsuni]

4. Thank you, that's really interesting!

I love really large fireplaces where people could simmer things in pots and roast large beasts, it's so medieval. Such a shame to lose the old techniques, isn't it. When I see Alice Waters cook something in her fireplace I get intensely jealous.

I wonder what pigeons taste like. A contestant on the latest season of Hell's Kitchen served pigeon to Gordon Ramsay, it created quite a stir.