robertjerl wrote:
Store bought anything is not the same. My Grandmother had a 2 acre garden/orchard next to the farm house. Late spring through fall the veggies etc. on the table had been growing at the most the day before. She did her own home canning, later adding home made frozen vegetables and fruits. Wild berries, walnuts and pecans gathered in the woods nearby and my Great Grandfather (later my Great Aunt) had two acres of heritage varieties of strawberries and blackberries. She made her own jams, jellies and preserves also. We did buy pancake syrup but I often ate them with strawberry, grape or blackberry jam on them instead of syrup. He kept that garden with hand tools only until he was about 89, he lived to a week or two short of his 92nd birthday.
And the Southern Fried chicken for Sunday dinner had been running around the yard that morning while they were at church.
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Good memories. Nothing beats fresh. My paternal grandmother was born in 1889 and then raised in S Philadelphia. No land there to grow anything. She got farm fresh fruits and vegetables, like her mother did, off a horse drawn wagon that went by every other day. I remember in the early 50s when we went back to the old neighborhood to visit family watching it stop and people buying off of it. At least by then they had refrigerators. My grandmother never smoked or drank and only ate fresh, no canned or processed foods. She lived to the age of 96 and never saw a doctor or needed glasses. I wish I could remember all the thing she told me about her growing up. She kept telling us how lucky we all were to have all the modern conveniences we had as a child.