M Gravlee said:
My Father was born in 1888. I remember well Mother making hominy outside in the old cast iron washpot. She boiled hog heads in it to make souse. She also set a bowl of milk out with a cheese cloth covering to let it "clabber". I guess she made buttermilk from it. We kids would get a cup full and eat it like Jello. She also made butter in an old fashioned wooden churn. This thread has really brought back some memories.
Dang it man. Between you and he, y'all have covered quite a span of years. You must have came along when he was a good bit older than "normal" child rearing age.
On another note, good thing people don't have to live like that today. Bc they'd starve. Most people would have no idea how to make their own groceries. I'll admit, that there's some of it that I don't know how to do either. I've never made butter and cheese for one. But I can get a chicken, cow, or hog from the pen to the table so maybe I'll make it.