My druffing has cornbread and bread.Stuffing has bread. It's a Northern Thang.
Dressing has cornbread. It's a Southern Thang.
My wife has mastered "dressing".Stuffing has bread. It's a Northern Thang.
Dressing has cornbread. It's a Southern Thang.
Then it's dressing, which consists of cornbread, biscuits and usually bread. "Stuffing", in the northern/Midwestern sense generally has no cornbread.My druffing has cornbread and bread.
Just to gloom up your day further, consider this:
The US population was 134 million in 1942.
The US population now is 332 million. Plus God knows how many illegals.
It's conceivable that we would now get a ration stamp for 1 lb of sugar per person, depending upon how much better the supply chain is now.
Welcome to TB, TacoSalad!I have a few that I bought there in either AUG or SEPT not really sure because I never buy enough of that stuff for it to hang around more than 6 months or so. I did notice that they no longer carry any of the pouches of chicken at the ones closest to me.
This is interesting about the cornmeal, although neither myself or DH cares for dressing. What I meant when i said I've learned a lot of things from you through the years expecially how you just keep chipping away at thing and get them done and you are basically by yourself. I admire you for what you do.nomifyle, she found using the cornmeal was a great time-saver. I think her stuffing was just dried bread she'd diced up, along with onion, celery, eggs, salt and pepper and water. Pretty easy to just use whatever cornmeal would have gone into a cornbread recipe. I am the oldest of 8 kids and she did a huge amount of cooking the day before Thanksgiving for such a huge family. Often, grandparents were there, too. There was always at least a 24 pound turkey, with all that went with it, including homemade cranberry sauce and four or five different kinds of pie.
This talk of those big dinners just reminded me of something I'd not thought of in years!!!!! I grew up with meatless Fridays, and I remember every year my dad staying up until midnight the day after Thanksgiving so that he could have a big huge turkey sandwich for a bedtime snack. He said it was hard to wait, but it was definitely worth waiting for!
Everyone in the household got their own ration book so you would have received a ration for each individual. However, I believe age of children varied the amount of the ration. There were also special extra rations available for fruit canning season. When I asked my mom about rationing, she commented that just because you had a ration stamp it did not automatically mean the store had the item.Wow.
There's 7 people in my household.
10 when all my kids are home.
I clearly need to to "up" my sugar storage if 21 lbs for 6 weeks was the RATIONED amount I would get.
The thing is - if we really were making from scratch EVERYTHING we ate, every single meal - most of us would be quite surprised at the volume of basic ingredients needed.
During the Covid lockdown I was cooking everything everyday just for myself and was amazed at how quickly the flour canister needed refilling. I shopped in what my grandson calls "grandma's grocery store" better known as my pantry during that time.
Pepperidge Farm cornbread stuffing at Walmart online was over $24 for 2. I'm pretty sure it was a 3rd party seller, but still, that's crazy. Velveeta shells and cheese was over $7 a box. Hawaiian rolls are over $7 for a 24 pack. I'm so thankful I can cook from scratch!I mastered Thanksgiving $7stuffing the day I bought my first box of Stove Top brand Stuffing Mix.
Which, by the way, now costs about $2 for a box.
Before the plandenic, you could get it for $1, on sale...
My FIL made the only dressing I ever really liked, so I use his "recipe" which has garlic in it. It's DIVINE!My wife has mastered "dressing".
Not the sickly gray stuff that her mom made.
Not the bland stuff my mom made either.
My wife took from both, experimented and perfected. Moist but firm. Plenty of chicken and/or turkey cooked in (I prep those for her). Browned on top. Right amount of sage, plenty of celery and onions. And garlic! Oh, the horror! Lol.
She made fried chicken when we got married and said "I think I put too much garlic". I told her that was not possible.
Then I told her that anything that wasn't a cake or pie needed copious garlic.
PF is $3 at WalMart, in store.Pepperidge Farm cornbread stuffing at Walmart online was over $24 for 2. I'm pretty sure it was a 3rd party seller, but still, that's crazy. Velveeta shells and cheese was over $7 a box. Hawaiian rolls are over $7 for a 24 pack. I'm so thankful I can cook from scratch!
I was going to mention this third party seller thing, to you. I got to thinking about it and just can’t fathom how stuffing mix, even a name brand like PF could be SO expensive!Pepperidge Farm cornbread stuffing at Walmart online was over $24 for 2. I'm pretty sure it was a 3rd party seller, but still, that's crazy. Velveeta shells and cheese was over $7 a box. Hawaiian rolls are over $7 for a 24 pack. I'm so thankful I can cook from scratch!
Yep... when we had four teens, I baked 12 loaves of bread (48 cups of flour) weekly. Plus cakes, cookies, pies, biscuits, occasional doughnuts...That's rather what I thought. I made bread this afternoon. The recipe I used, calls for 10 cups of flour. I got 2 loaves and 24 rolls out of it.
That would last my family basically a single day.
The recommended amount of flour (assuming no gluten intolerances, I'm sure) is something like 30lbs per person per month.
That's a LOT of flour for a big family. Or really, any size of family.
Even around here Ezekiel bread is pushing 7.00 a loaf.I went to a local grocery store here on the Big Island. Hellmans Mayo $9.99 for a qt jar. Ezekiel bread $8.99 a loaf.
That’s the way my late mother inlaw Junebug used to make her dressing. She was from Decherd but moved to Lebanon (Possum Town, I own the property now right on Brunley Branch on Old Hickory). VThen it's dressing, which consists of cornbread, biscuits and usually bread. "Stuffing", in the northern/Midwestern sense generally has no cornbread.
Yep, I saw that too at the Safeway in Lehue’ Kauai. VI went to a local grocery store here on the Big Island. Hellmans Mayo $9.99 for a qt jar. Ezekiel bread $8.99 a loaf.
Yep, that sound’s about right, it would have included the farm hands too.My maternal great-grandmother was the mother of 16 children who lived. Guess they were a big farming family.....lived somewhere in central MInnesota. Mom told me her grandma used to bake 22 loaves of bread every other day.
Even with that many children, I have to think they must have been feeding farm hands as well as their children and maybe other relatives, too.
Life must have been nothing but constant cooking, laundry, and the kitchen gardening, canning, etc.. And I can't imagine the mountains of firewood that must have been needed all year every year.
Those prices are insane.Pepperidge Farm cornbread stuffing at Walmart online was over $24 for 2. I'm pretty sure it was a 3rd party seller, but still, that's crazy. Velveeta shells and cheese was over $7 a box. Hawaiian rolls are over $7 for a 24 pack. I'm so thankful I can cook from scratch!
I think I’m going to have to start making bread again. Lately, I’ve been really into Jewish seeded rye. It was originally $3.50 a loaf, now $5. At that price point, it makes more sense to make my own.
Put some out and see if wild animals will eat it. Often they won't; they don't perceive it as food.What is confusing and scary is I have ordinary store bread baked LAST JANUARY AND FEBRUARY That is still SOFT, FRESH TASTING, AND NOT MOLDY!
I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY PUT IN IT to make it stay that way!
That's why I don't shop there. It's at least 30 minutes one way.I saw the Aldi’s plug upthread. It’s a 30-minute drive each way for me. I’m not going to go.
I've been putting butter away little by little all fall for holiday baking.
Haha...No substitute for real butter in English Toffee or Scottish Shortbread!
IIRC, Aldi had a good deal on butter this week...will go check.
Yup. $2.99/lb. Limit 6. Good thru the 19th.
We don't have a Trader Joe's locally, but there is talk of bringing one here. I hope we do get one. I like shopping variety.
I didn't think we would ever get an Aldi's, but it finally happened.
Stuffing has bread. It's a Northern Thang.
Dressing has cornbread. It's a Southern Thang.