The Galiano Club

They are all from The Interviews!

Mother's recipes were partly in Pitman's shorthand and I couldn't read them

Family loved canned Venison: Put pieces of meat firmly in jars,add salt (1/2-1tsp/pint), seal and pressure cook at 10lbs for 90 minutes or for 4 hours in a boiling water bath.

Out diet was fish or venison or venison or fish.

During the war I was in uniform and so didn't cook and when I came out not much to cook with.
When I came to Canada there was all this food and I didn't know how to cook it!

To grow locally is an excellent idea as is to cook more simply.

As children we ate a lot of candy and boiled sweets.

When you were a child, how did you get your food?

We grew a small garden, we had a cherry tree, an apple tree, a pear tree and a plum tree, that's where we got a lot of food, and where we bought our groceries in those years was at a corner store. We had to walk to the corner store and carry all our groceries home, we didn't have a car. My mother had a garden, and I helped in the garden.

When you were a child, how did you get your food?

When you were a child how did you get your food?

Food Memory

Lennis: We grew lots of vegetables when I was a child, and later on we lived where there were abandoned orchards and we used to go and pick apples because they would stay on the ground, one or two, and we would throw one apple down at a time for them to catch them, so they wouldn't get bruised...and that way they would last, sometimes right up to February a nice King apple would last.

Rowan: When you were a child, how did you get your food?

 
"I grew up in a sterile urban environment where I thought that the whole world was paved and that kind people dug up the pavement to plant seeds and let plants grow. My only joy was what was in the window boxes, my life long desire to be in nature."
 
Here is a recipe from Dora Fitzgerald.