buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
addie, you only ate meat in the fall?
addie, you only ate meat in the fall?
Reminds me of Underwood's Deviled Ham. I used to like it as a kid, but then I developed a palate.
When my family owned a farm, we did the dame thing; Each spring, we bought yearlings and a supply of chicks, (about 300). During the year, we fattened them up and lived from the previous years supply. Each Fall, we butchered the animals and put the meat into the smoke house and freezers (We had 4 very large freezers.), and that smoked meat and frozen meat is what we lived off until the following fall. We always had chickens "On the hoof" so to speak, and us kids were trained to capture, decapitate, clean and pluck a chicken for supper. We also had ducks, geese and deer meat. A farm family seldom runs out of meat. One calf would go from auction to freezer and a lamb or two would keep it company.addie, you only ate meat in the fall?
To this day, I miss living on a farm. We kids never ran out of things to do. Even on a rainy day, we could play 'in the barn.' But we knew, the first thing every morning, even before breakfast, the animals had to be fed.
To this day, I miss living on a farm. We kids never ran out of things to do. Even on a rainy day, we could play 'in the barn.' But we knew, the first thing every morning, even before breakfast, the animals had to be fed.
I really miss it too.
It takes a tremendous investment to live like the poor honest Walton family these days.
If I could afford it I would become Aunt BeaBob.
On a family farm today, you need all those kids to help with the chores. The cost of labor is just too high.
When I worked with 4H kids, some of those kids had purebred animals registered in their name. They were worth more than their parents.
A tall, ice cold glass of fresh cows milk, only an hour from the cow and that was breakfast.
I love fresh milk right from the cow. There is a whole different taste from pasteurized milk. It only takes a couple of drops of raw cream for your coffee. Now they ultra pasteurize dairy products. That means it has been pasteurized twice instead of once. In this state, you can't buy raw milk or cream. City folks will never know what they are missing.
But you can get single pasteurized products if you own a restaurant.