My mom’s from western Carolina. My aunt and her boyfriend at the ripe old ages of 15 & 16 respectively were married about 63 years ago and going strong. (She makes the world’s best beef stew and biscuits on her old wood stove.)
Lordy,beef stew and biscuits——I’d kill for some right now.
My kind of food.
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My Mother cooked on a wood stove for maybe the first 15 years they were married.
She once told me that it cooked better than any other one she has used. I later read that they do indeed cook better because they are cast iron and heat much more evenly.