The older farm woman used Lard. Fried chicken was to die for. The pie/cobbler crusts were the same.JOWL BACON!
A gift from heaven!
We used to get up, go do morning farm chores...
Then check on grandma & grandpa,
Grandma always had either scrambled eggs & white sausage gravy,
Or egg sandwiches with jowl bacon slabs,
Either way on homemade biscuits!
Her coffee was TERRIBLE, just boiled to death on a stove top percolator,
-- Just the way my grandpa liked it!
She's the one that taught me how to make dried apple pies.
Concentrated flavor, never mushy with (rehydrated) dried apples.
Took several tries before you could get though my crust with a chain saw, but I figured out what I was doing wrong...
Had something to do with baking flour instead of 'Redi-Mix'.
Real men DO cook!
They just use better kitchen tools than most women!
Best apple pies I have ever had only came close to them with one we bought from the Amish down in Washington Ind. I ate most of it and paid the price but man it was a good reminder of how to make a proper apple pie.
My people butchered the meat they ate from what they raised on the farm. Watching them do the craft was something I will never master as we pay people to butcher for us. Krogers and Meijer's etc.
Great Grampa could carve the best cuts with ease. I helped but its an art.
Doing a pig to me looked harder than doing beef.
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