Pan Fried Baloney & difficult frogs!
I happened to have been born and raised on a large farm during the start of the great world depression. It lasted until I was about ready for high school. The Germans, Italians, and the Japanese--along with a few smaller fish, got us cranked up enough to start leaving that odd time behind.
There was no money during that time for such things as purchased food, restaurants, travel, new homes, autos, even new radios.
about 90% of us however lived on or near a farm and grew what we needed to eat and for bartering. Trade eggs, corn meal, potatoes, beef stock, and hog meat, for condiments, coffee, baking powder, soda powder, sugar, salt and pepper.
Some labor was also paid by barter--food and shelter for labor.
Clothes were bought once per year if possible, and of course were handed down to someone.
Dresses were made for women and so were bed coverings---including quilts.
We had orchards, huge gardens, grape arbors, nuts in the pasture field (on bushes), black walnut trees, blackberry vines, raspberry vines, wild strawberries, Pawpaw trees, persimmon bushes, cherry and plum trees close to the house to discourage birds, raised several hogs for slaughter, and had several milk cows for milk and butter.
We ground our own flour and corn meal.
Sheep was a cash crop for the wool, as was stock cows that we raised the corn and hay to feed.
Roosevelt furnished the fertilizer for the pastures and bottoms for a small fee.
The gardens grew every kind of vegetable known that would grow in that climate.
Even "truck farms, or "victory patches" were grown for the use of the military.
There are many other aspects of running a farm but no dummy could keep up with should be done every single day. We even castrated our own animals.
Now, about pan-fried bologna. Or even frog legs to fry!
Good bologna now costs $8 per pound and frog legs are even more.
Those would have been delicacies, if available. However most of it went into SPAM for the boys!
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