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Tracy R

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  1. My father told me once that, during the depression (my Dad was nearing forty when I was born, and remembers the Great Depression years well) my grandmother always had a big soup stock pot on the back of the wood stove. She would scrape the plates from dinner into that pot, and it was constantly kept simmering. Every meal started out with a bowl of soup from that pot . Occasionally, she'd fish out the bones from previous meals that were all but mush (they then went to the dog), or add a jug of water. When she canned something and had a few spoonfuls extra, or trimmed something to cook, or picked some over-ripe vegetable from the garden, the leftover bits went in the pot. If she had an extra egg, it went in the pot. If she cleaned a chicken, the trim (wing tips, skinned feet and organs) went in the pot. If she snipped a few herbs from the garden of a morning, they went in the pot. Sometimes, when there was nothing for dinner, they only had soup. But that soup pot was always on the back of the stove, and according to my Dad, the best soup in the world. To this day, he loves soup. I agree, times are about to change, and priorities will change right along with it. I just hope that people really learn this time that over-consumption is going to ruin us if it keeps up. It might be worth it to go through a severe economic crisis if it teaches people to be a little less wasteful. I think it's already beginning, so hopefully, in this case, change will be for the good.
  2. Green pine needle tea is what the Natives gave early settlers and explorers who were dying (in droves) of scurvy. It's what used to get many of the natives through the winter when no fresh foods were available in northern climates. I also boil my meat bones and make my own stock from them. If you add a chopped onion (I always roast an onion in with my roast chicken/beef/whatever) it strengthens the broth. I always add eggshells to my stock as it simmers, too, along with anything else I have, including the stale ends of bread that no one wants and the hard, dry corners off the cheese block. There is no sense in throwing away something that might be past it's prime when you can leech out the nutrients for stock. We haven't used vitamin supplement tablets for years. There is no need to when you're eating a complete, balanced diet, IMHO. Taking your nutrition from natural, available, LOCAL sources is important. We are creatures of the environment we live in, and the food grown locally is, as far as I'm concerned, what is best suited to those who live there. Some are shocked by the fact that I use bones that have been on a diner's plate at my table. Grilled bones from chops, etc make EXCELLENT stock. I figure, I'm boiling it, any germs aren't going to last through a couple hours of intense heat. There is too much good there to waste, sorry if that offends people, but my grocery budget doesn't stand for waste. My children are well fed, we seldom get ill, and we don't use supplemental vitamins, so I guess we're doing something right.
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