Breakfast at Grandmother's

People back then, even when I was a child, were hard workers. They could eat whatever they liked, as much as they liked. I wish we worked as hard now.

This would be anytime our family or others were there for the weekend. When I stayed with them occasionally breakfast was the same. Lunch was big, with a huge variety of vegetables and supper was either leftovers or grand dad ate corn bread in clabber milk. I did not learn the skills. Mom said "why work that hard, just go to the store".

@GardenGerty Did your grandpa make corn bread in clabber milk? Is that the skill you're referring to? You have he 'ate' corn bread in whatever clabber milk is. Were those grandparents the parents of your mom? I can understand her reasoning, but back then, many of us that tried to make things easier for the next generation didn't realize we may be doing more harm in certain situations. There are things I now wish I had gotten more information about before my mom got dementia. Even asking questions about different aspects of our lives that I'm only now beginning to think about. There are many skills that either our generation never learned or that we've not passed onto the next. I canned when I was growing up, helping and eventually doing more as I got older. After I moved out and got married I continued to can for us and also learned how to freeze produce which we didn't do growing up. I've not done any canning in the past forty years since remarrying and having kids. I always figured I'd teach my girls how to can once they had kids of their own. I decided to wait because I worked a lot, but my girls now work a lot too, so it will depend on how much they may want to learn and whether everything, time and money work out for doing some of that.

@GardenGerty 2nd comment as other got a bit long. Have you ever searched out what that skill is all about? Maybe you'd want to share it here sometime as many of us never heard about it. If you do share, feel free to tag me.

It makes us all feel connected to have shared those memories.

@GardenGerty I only met 1 grandmother for a handful of days. You are fortunate to have those wonderful memories!

Yes, and I need to do more for myself. It is hard work but very healthy.

@GardenGerty If you can afford it you can buy many vegetables raw and cook them yourself

@wolfgirl569 I need to raise some of them. I do get some good deals at the grocer when we go. Less than perfect fruits and veggies get marked down, but still taste good.

That was what I realized yesterday. And it was people who did hard physical labor.

@GardenGerty

It was and it also makes me wish I had recorded more.

@GardenGerty That happens. We wish that we did something before.

It is meat drippings from your pork either bacon or ham, with little or no flour or corn starch to thicken, but a splash of water or even better, brewed coffee stirred through to loosen the bits cooked onto the pan. The way I understand it, you stirred it around and it was reddish brown and looked like an eye, dark in the middle.

It is meat drippings from your pork either bacon or ham, with little or no flour or corn starch to thicken, but a splash of water or dark brewed coffee stirred through to loosen the bits cooked onto the pan. The way I understand it, you stirred it around and it was reddish brown and looked like an eye, dark in the middle.

@GardenGerty Oh I see, I get it Heather..thanks for that sounds good