Posted on 02/26/2018 12:12:20 PM PST by CottonBall
I’ve been missing the vast amount of information on prepping, survival, camping, simple cooking, the old ways of doing just about everything – all the things nw_arizona_granny knew so much about and shared with us, along with numerous other posters with a vast array of skills and knowledge.
We have our various related-threads here, a recipe thread, a gardening thread, and even a prepper thread. They are all great and I don’t mean to take anything away from those and the hard work their owners put in.
But I was missing a place to talk about ALL those things, to get the camaraderie that we used to have on granny’s thread.
I learned how to can on those threads! The pressure canner was not my friend, I thought, but I bought one and stared at it for a month, intimidated. Then I read the directions for another month. But with the help and encouragement of posters on granny’s threads, I jumped in and now have my very own food storage room in the basement with lovely jars of shelf-stable meats, vegetables, and fruit. When we moved, I fashioned my food storage room – and insisted upon having a basement – from what I learned on her threads. Getting started gardening was from her threads. Making my own cleaning products….the list is endless.
So I thought I would take the chance and start another comprehensive prepper thread and see how it goes. I used to have granny’s ping list since I made one of the threads for her, but alas, with numerous computer changes, I cannot find it. So please pass this onto any posters you think might be interested.
We’ll just keep it running until..whenever. Granny created a new thread at 10,000 posts or so. I do like the idea of having ONE thread to go to – because often I cannot find or keep track of the weekly threads. I won’t be posting lots of recipes or tidbits myself – to any mods concerned about the size of this thread. I’d just like a place to chat, post questions, post ideas, make new prepping friends.
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
So that’s why on the Waltons I saw them wrap their sandwiches in wax paper. I didn’t think it would do a very good job keeping them fresh. But it was probably a cool thing for its time! And better than not using it. Wonder how long waxed paper had been around. Your parents probably would say they didn’t have it around when they were growing up, and how lucky you were to have such advances :-)
I was wondering why busy wives would go through so much trouble to starcb clothes. With everything else that they had to do. If it made the clothes last longer, then that makes sense. I thought it was just for looks.
Was molasses the main sweetener? I have a new found respect for molasses. I just discovered it actually. Molasses cookies are the best! And I love adding it to whole wheat bread.
If you had both loving parents around and grandparents, you were blessed. I wish I had just one of them.
I think it’s sad the way kids can’t play outside, even walk to school, without all sorts of lessons on how to be careful.
I’m 56, but I remember playing outside all day long in the summer. And only coming home when it got dark. Now it could partly be because I had parents that just didn’t give a damn, but lots of other kids were out there also.
Now that’s the sort of stuff I love to read :-) thank you.
Do you have time to take over the thread? I’ll do all the pinging for you if you want. Or send you the list.
I think it’s also the thing a lot of people can identify with, that relates to prepping. It puts it into perspective that we’re not doing something new!
Very much enjoy reading your thread posts!
I, too, was wondering if molasses was used as a general sweetener, for baking, etc.
I know it’s also good on hot, homemade biscuits. Dad used to always talk about that.
In this area no funeral is complete without bowl of these cherry or lime beauties.
Do remember seeing that card elsewhere. :-/
Really, LOL. What was listed are only a few of the hundreds collected. Patience, you might see it at a later date as these collected sites are revisited.
There are some who will attempt to pickle any and everything :-)
Pickled watermelon rinds, pickled pigs feet... no longer just for cucumbers.
Patience in the kitchen, please.
The weekly garden thread is up!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3645572/posts
Lots of great info there and all levels of garden aficionados, from beginners like me to master gardeners with wisdom to share!
oh, that sounds disgusting!
awesome list, VK! i hope to have lots of time to read them tomorrow.
today i am painting a bit. my downstairs kitchen cabinets are becoming a delightful, happy shade of yellow. Lowe’s calls it ‘lemon twist’.
the basement kitchen - which Came into existence when we remodeled the 1970s upstairs kitchen and moved everything into a room created in the basement - Was actually going to be for a prepper spice business. But that fell through, thanks to the Tennessee legislature. So now it’s just my canning and produce kitchen. Hopefully things will change and I can use it again for a spice business.
Do remember mom using that same starch. Faultless?
Interesting fact regarding the wax paper. wikipedia had an entry on it..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_paper
Paper Towel! what would we do w/o that. Same with toliet tissue. Disposable diapers...not in those days. It was stinky, messy and the most unpleasant task around to launder baby diapers.
For cuts, use cayenne as an alternative to turmeric. It works just as well and helps to stop the bleeding. Sprinkle it on the wound and allow to stay there to dry.
https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/top-10-uses-cayenne-pepper-medicine/
http://health.in4mnation.com/cayenne-pepper-benefits-uses/
https://draxe.com/cayenne-pepper-benefits/
https://www.fabhow.com/use-cayenne-pepper-for-health.html
Hubby swears by a warm water cayenne gargle when feeling a cold/flu coming on. He’ll gargle several times a day and overnight it works wonders. He wakes the next morning feeling much better, fever gone, sore throat gone.
Though it’s hardly inexpensive, there are
Spices at Penzeys
https://www.penzeys.com/
Perhaps less, you be the judge:
http://www.spicesforless.com/Spices-A-Z/
Stay with us and be prepared for unending questions. :-)
Dela_Where
Dela_Where
https://www.freerepublic.com/~delawhere/
Molasses was an important sweetener in Gram’s house. Gramp had biscuit and molasses for all three meals every day, no matter what was on the table for dessert. Gram made a huge pan every noon (never saw sliced bread at her house) along with a big pan of boiled potatoes, then for supper, and breakfast the following day she had hash browns and steamed biscuits with whatever else she was serving. Three big meals a day. She used molasses in baked beans every Saturday and also in the steamed brown bread she cooked on Saturdays. Then there was the johnnycake she made for the pigs! That johnnycake smelled so good hot out of the oven!! When she would break it up into the pig’s pail along with several quarts of rich whole milk, I thought those pigs were eating pretty good. No garbage for Gran’s pigs! She cooked pumpkins, squash and potatoes for them also to break up into their pail.
Along with cookies, cakes, candy and popcorn balls she made with molasses, you can see that she did use a lot of it. Her hand-pulled taffy was good too, especially when she let us kids help pull it.
Baking powder came in large 2 quart tins. I have a tin setting on each side of the mirror on the bureau in my bedroom now. They have the words “Davis Baking Powder” punched into the lids. I keep loose change in one and my “wild spending money” in the other.
I could go on and on about “the good old days” - that’s what happens when you approach ninety and get senile.
I would be a terrible candidate to take over this thread. My laptop is screwed up much of the time until some daughter bails me out. They say I am an indiscriminate clicker. I just grin and agree with them. It doesn’t matter as long as they rescue me. I used to be able to “copy and paste” but can’t seem to do that now without messing something up. Would love to be able to post pictures, but never could master it. I had a terrible run in with a nest of ground hornets a year and a half ago. Passed out and woke up in intensive care. Was there three days and left with A-Fib and now get light headed periodically. Have good days and bad but mostly good so can’t complain.
This is hardly essential, but women, no matter what the year might be, still think of themselves as wishing to be the object of beauty
Some time back this site was found which includes info from 1930-1960 fashion W/tips and suggestions.
GLAMOUR DAZE
http://glamourdaze.com/
....”women, no matter what the year might be, still think of themselves as wishing to be the object of beauty”.....
That’s because the opposite sex views beauty as significant...especially Eastern and Asian countries.
Link to the FARMERS ALMANAC
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/almanacs/2018
The jobs required for beauty were once nothing but torture.
Think of the permanent at the beauty salon... the earlier version using wires, electricity looked more like the chair in a prison.
The Home Perms were instruction in toxic fumes.
Aggg Cough cough.
American women - full of wiles and methods :)
It is actually really good.
Can’t remember the name if I ever did notice it, but do remember a box and mother constantly stirring the contents into a large pan of boiling water.
Unfortunately, I read your last post to me first and have spent an hour going thru DelaWhere’s posts looking for the post having the name of the store with herbs and spices in bulk. I will now go check out the sites you posted. Thanks.
Tell me about diapers!! I had four preschoolers and no dryer. In the winter those diapers froze before I could get them pinned to the line!! I was one of the more fortunate ones in my neighborhood. I had an electric wringer type washing machine. Some of my neighbors still did not have electricity and used galvanized wash tubs and a scrub board. I still had to heat water on the stove, bail boiling water into the machine and when finished drain dirty water into pails and dump into sink. Yes, lots of fun.
I am being well repaid with all my girls do for me. All four of them have been here today, changing beds, cooking meals for next week and other chores.
Kool-Aid flavored pickles? I can’t even imagine it being edible.
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