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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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 Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 05:28:16 AM
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Marilyn she left you a great heritage. Love her story.
Linda I'll check out the recipe.
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FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Edited by - YellowRose on Aug 29 2019 05:28:55 AM |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 09:47:44 AM
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Eggs:
Eggs might be expensive or in short supply if needed to be dried and shipped oversea. If that happen eggs should be used for entrees.
Ways to stretch eggs:
In cakes - if 3 eggs are required 2 may be used by adding 1/2 tsp baking powder. For each egg omitted add 1/2 tsp baking powder.
Two leftover egg whites or yolks may replace a whole egg in most recipes.
A meringue made with 2 egg whites and 3 Tbsp water will have about the same volume as a meringue made with 3 egg whites.
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FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
1176 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 10:23:04 AM
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| Or you could make the eggless, butteries, milkiness depression cake. I used to make it for my granddaughter when she was vegan. We liked the spice one best but the chocolate is also good. |
Judith
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4646 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4646 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 10:31:09 AM
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| Judith - can you please post the recipes for these depression cakes in our Recipe topic? |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 10:52:09 AM
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| Please Judith post them. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
1176 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 11:00:23 AM
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Will do. Now I have a goal for today: find the recipes
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Judith
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4646 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 3:05:28 PM
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Thank you for posting them.
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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Posted - Aug 29 2019 : 10:23:13 PM
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I have that eggless, butterless cake recipe. Its in all the church fund raiser cookbooks.We had it in our school fund raiser cookbook.
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2019 : 05:05:41 AM
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In a pinch you can make a flax egg. Ground up flax seed and a bit of water.
I have made cornbread with it. |
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Edited by - TexasGran on Aug 30 2019 05:06:08 AM |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
859 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Aug 31 2019 : 12:01:51 PM
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| My mom and grandma had the grease jar on the stove too and when I was married I got a set of canister that had grease can with it. I loved the bacon grease to cook with. I still use lard when I make a pie crust. But I remember all the great clothes made with feed sacks. I really chuckled when they reproduced that fabric for quilts. |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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Posted - Aug 31 2019 : 12:29:48 PM
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Bonnie, I forgot that one was marked grease! Bacon fat was the best for pinto beans. My dad was from New York City. He loved my Granny's Pinto Beans!
It was that bacon fat!!
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
1176 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 31 2019 : 12:51:22 PM
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| I don't keep the can of bacon fat on top of the stove anymore but I do have a container of it in the fridge. We love bacon fat in cornbread. |
Judith
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9285 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Sep 18 2019 : 04:44:13 AM
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Thought this was a fun tidbit to share.
In 1939, when Kansas Wheat realized that women were using their feed sacks to make clothes for their children, the mills started putting designs on the fabric so the kids could have nice clothes. They even printed the label with ink that would easily wash away.
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Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2019 : 04:51:07 AM
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And I would say that was a good company!
I have always been drawn to small floral prints...now I wonder if it is because they were all around me as a little child. |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Sep 18 2019 : 05:16:13 AM
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| Thanks Denise for posting the picture and story. Vintage flour sacks are now highly collectable and bring $$ price. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
1176 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Sep 18 2019 : 2:01:28 PM
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| Our grocery store used to carry La Pina flour 25 lbs in printed flour sacks. The label was paper and soaked off easily. They stopped carrying it about 15 years ago but I still have some of the fabric. |
Judith
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Happiness is Homemade |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9285 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
9285 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 06:25:31 AM
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This poster was in the bathroom at the diner where we stopped last night. I'm not sure I'd ever heard of the Women'Land Army but it must have been so. Maybe it was around when they did Victory gardens. |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 06:34:26 AM
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| Denise that's a great poster. Thanks for snapping a shot of it and sharing with us. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 08:50:46 AM
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| Yes that is a great poster. Thanks for sharing. |
Texasgran |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 09:05:06 AM
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Ladies, please check out this website:
waunetarollermill.com
This is the web site for Wauneta Roller Mill in Wauneta, Nebraska.
This little mill produces the absolute best flour I have ever used.
We were introduced to this flour by the woman that my son built a house for, near Stephenville. Her land in Nebraska raises wheat, corn, beans, etc. Lots of stuff on lots of acres of land put together by her ancestors. She gave us flour in printed cotton bags. That won me over. But while using the flour I was so impressed by the texture...as fine as baby powder. And the taste is amazing. Go check out the history on the web site. They still use the roll/reel that the mill started with in 1925.
They sell flour: bleached or unbleached, in 5# and 10# bags. They also sell Cream Cake Mix and Pancake mix. |
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
2652 Posts
Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
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Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 11:08:33 AM
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| Thank you for sharing this, Marilyn! I am all for supporting family farms! |
Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 12:27:03 PM
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A young couple bought the mill about 5ish years ago to keep it going. I think that is admirable since it is the only one left in that neck of the woods. They mill flour from many farms, including the lady I mentioned. Some other people oversee the farming operation for her. That allows her to travel, rodeo, and to drop by and get some flour when she is in the area. My brain can not even fathom the number of acres she has in farm land.
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3460 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3460 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 4:55:12 PM
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Denise, I found out about the Women's Land Army back in 2012 when I was watching something on the BBC from our PBS station. I went online and ordered a book about the WLA here in America for WWI and then one from Britain in WWII. It is wonderful to read and learn what these brave young women did. I also saw a statue, not long ago at a WWII Memorial with a stature of a person dressed from the WLA.
I will look up that flour mill you mentioned, Marilyn. I love to learn about how people used creative ideas in their businesses to help the people who had less money in their patronage. Here is a poster from the WWI LWA effort in the US.
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Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 5:32:16 PM
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| I love that poster Winnie! Thanks for sharing. |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4646 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4646 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 7:09:01 PM
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I checked out that flour mill, Marilyn. I love their fabric sacks. I will order from them - probably after we get back from Germany.
I am also loving reading about the Woman's Food Army and Women: The Great Depression & WWII. When we went through the World War II museum in New Orleans. They had a great section about women on the home front and at work doing the jobs the men had been doing. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Women: The Great Depression & WWII
