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2naSalit

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8. We ate a lot of that stuff when I was a kid.
Sun May 21, 2023, 09:42 AM
May 2023

If my mom wasn't making many of those things, my grandmother was.

I still make some of them myself. And the demeaning of aspic is unfair, not all gelatin is sweetened and the writer has little historic knowledge of how some things were prepared. Baked beans were baked with molasses and onions, the bread was brown bread and sometime hot dogs or sausages of some kind were added. as and example.

I have a cookbook published during the depression and it has a lot of these dishes included in it as well as an appendix in the back called "Wartime Cookery" where it tells you what's in the tin cans - they didn't have labels on them during the war - and which cuts of meat to buy that aren't compatible with being shipped to the troops and how to substitute honey for sugar in recipes.

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