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Midnight Writer

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12. My parents were children of The Great Depression. We ate a lot of these growing up.
Sun May 21, 2023, 03:14 PM
May 2023

Lard Bread-Take a baking sheet. Arrange stale bread on the bottom. Apply a thick coating of lard to the bread. Bake in the oven and enjoy. Fills up an empty belly fast.

If the milk turned, Dad would pour it into a bowl, cover the bowl with cheesecloth, and let it sit out for a couple of days until it got firm.
Then he would pour in sugar and stir it up. Eat it with a spoon. Don't know what he called it.

Karo bread-Mix Karo syrup and butter together into a bowl. Spread the mixture on slices of bread. One of my favorites.

Every so often, us kids were assigned to gather dandelion greens for Mom's Dandelion soup. Kept us kids busy and the yard neat.

There was local bakery where we could get stale bread nearly free. And there was a local dairy where they would pour out the "blue milk" in the evening. Mom would walk us kids down there with pitchers and the guys at the dairy would let us fill our pitchers with blue milk for free.

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