flyinglentris
Disabled and Retired Veteran
It's no small thing to be growing food down on the farm or the ranch. It's a lot of healthy work from early in the morning with big breakfasts, to late with big suppers.
And except for what goes in the root cellars, most things for meals are about as fresh as they can be. Variety goes well beyond the grocery store, including what the farms produce, to wildlife nearby.
My grandma has passed, but when we visited she had a railroad box car on the property with about seven deep freezers inside. These contained such things as parts of a large snapping turtle, white tail deer, pheasant and more. Fishing on a Minnesota lake reeled in Great Northerns, Pike, Large and Small Mouth Bass, Pickeral, Pike, Sunfish and Croppies. In the woods, one picks wild Strawberries, Blackberries and things that I still don't know the names of. You have to go to the store for some things like Bananas and Oranges, but Apples were common nearby.
Country Cooking isn't perhaps, on par with fancy restaurant food, but I would insist those rural folks got it good.
And except for what goes in the root cellars, most things for meals are about as fresh as they can be. Variety goes well beyond the grocery store, including what the farms produce, to wildlife nearby.
My grandma has passed, but when we visited she had a railroad box car on the property with about seven deep freezers inside. These contained such things as parts of a large snapping turtle, white tail deer, pheasant and more. Fishing on a Minnesota lake reeled in Great Northerns, Pike, Large and Small Mouth Bass, Pickeral, Pike, Sunfish and Croppies. In the woods, one picks wild Strawberries, Blackberries and things that I still don't know the names of. You have to go to the store for some things like Bananas and Oranges, but Apples were common nearby.
Country Cooking isn't perhaps, on par with fancy restaurant food, but I would insist those rural folks got it good.