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Fourth of July and Cooking

May 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Growing up with farmers means that there is a predilection toward cooking with tried and true vintage recipes that included ingredients having a significance related to what kinds of livestock and/or produce comes from your farm.

Both sets of my grandparents were farmers, and even though my parents chose another way of life and professions that were not farm related, I still was close enough to the grandparents and their extended families to be familiar with this way of life. Even though Gram Irwin and her husband had long given up the full sized farm they once owned, they still raised chickens and sold the eggs to a select group of customers through once-a-week Saturday deliveries.

My Great Grandmother Wallace and her 3 unmarried siblings had a working dairy farm which not only produced milk for sale, but also produced the majority of the food needed for the livestock plus the few food animals and kitchen-bound crops they raised. Ditto for Grandpa Irwin�s little brother, Sammy, who Grandpa helped to run the herd on his farm several times a week.

Needless to say, the trade among the three groups for needed food items was brisk. Gram Irwin would trade fresh eggs or hens too old to lay anymore to the Wallaces for fresh pork, or to Uncle Sammy for fresh beef from the food stock he raised. There were also the jars of liquid milk sugar from the dairy co-op or fresh, pasteurized milk to be made into fresh butter and buttermilk. From this beginning, I grew used to always having fresh ground beef, fresh butter, seasonal produce, and fresh pork sausage for breakfast. Add to this, the fact that due to Grandpa Irwin�s Irish roots, we also ate a lot of potatoes with the evening meal.

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