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.

Island deer tastes more like veal. It is best medium rare or brazed,never cook venison passed medium! (bear has to be well cooked-no pink showing).

We used to have wild game dinners at the Rod and Gun Club-elk, moose, bear, cougar or whatever […]

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.

Got sugar in cubes – for putting into tea. Asked people if they wanted one cube or two and used sugar tongs to put the cubes into the tea. Coffee sugar in a […]

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 young, how did you keep your food?

We had […]

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

Mostly from the garden, or from neighboring farmers. We lived in the country, on what used to be a farm. And also, there weren’t supermarkets where I lived, I think there were very few supermarkets anyway, even in the big cities. And tradesmen came to you, you didn’t have to go out much. But the bread man came, and the fish, the butcher and people came to you, and you bought at the door.

When you were young, how did you keep your […]

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

Well, my mother and dad provided it for me, and my four brothers and sisters. My dad grew all our vegetables throughout the whole year. Sometimes he’d be out there at six o’clock in the morning digging and hoeing and cultivating before he went off to work, just to keep the vegetable garden going. We had lots of apple trees, we had plum trees, we had a peach tree,and so that’s how we were fed .My mother made our own bread, and […]

Food Memory

Every spring my family went to visit friends out in the country and we went to the Sugar House because a lot of people made maple sugar and maple syrup from maple trees. In the spring as soon as the snow had melted they would plant little spiggets in the trees, bang, bang, bang, and then attach buckets on them. Then they would go around with horses with bigger buckets and empty the small buckets and bring all this juice, the sap, to the sugar house, they would boil all the […]