DECADES IN THE KITCHEN
This past week I finished up a project that had been in the making for several months, a heritage cookbook where I took a look at how our ancestors had gathered, preserved and prepared their food for the last 100 years. I have learned many things about wood burning stoves, refrigeration before electricity, canning and preserving food and the general dedication it took to run an organized kitchen and get food on the table in a time when food wasn’t as plentiful as it is today. Gratitude is what I feel for the women in my family line that have paved the way for me in the kitchen. Everyone of them were a Super Mom doing incredible things on a daily basis, like stoking the stove for 1 ½ hours so that they could bake their bread, using a bucket to carry all the water the family would need into their house and then carrying the dirty water back out, sweeping dirt floors clean (interesting thought, isn’t it), stretching the food budget when it was already stretched, and overall just doing the same work over and over and over each day.
On this Mother’s Day I honor them and wish to have stamped on my forehead to be grateful for my wonderful full and easy life with simple ease in the kitchen.
Who is that cry baby any way?
2 comments:
The book you made really is a treasure! I really like Grandma Sperry's house coat. Of course I do.
I saw the book at Mom and Dad's and LOVED it!! I cannot believe how great your text and pictures were, and despite all of the "issues" with it, it is a BEAUTIFUL book! I hope that I can obtain a copy of my own soon.
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