How and by whom were meals cooked in the 1950''s?

Answer 1

oven. wife.

Answer 2

Well you see, in the 50's the woman folk did all the cooking. We had to chop the wood for the wood stove. Run down to the root cellar and grab the intended meat of the day and prepare and cook it in the wood stove. While it was cooking we'd gather veggies from the garden and prepare to boil them on the stove top.Or we could hang that big cast iron pot in the fireplace and cook up a good ol' stew.

Oh, you ment the 1950's? Still mostly the women folk on either gas or electric stoves. In the 1950's most women did not have to work and stayed home to raise the kids. Wheather that was lucky or not is a matter of opinion. I could and would do it if I could.

Answer 3

It was the mothers who cooked the food. In the 50s, generally speaking, wives did not work outside the home. They were housewives and that was a huge amount of work, far more than a servant. They did all the food preparation including the husband's lunch pail, the children's lunch pails. In those days they baked, prepared food from scratch. In those days dinner was started around 4:00 p.m. and it would take a couple of hours to prepare those dinners.

Mothers did the washing, hanging of clothes to dry on the clotheslines. They did the ironing, house cleaning, dishes, taking care of the kids and being loyal wives to their husbands. Virtually everything. Husbands did not helpe with the housework in those days. When they came home from a hard day's work of being the "breadwinner" they expected to be warmly greeted, nurtured and of course dinner at a precise hour.

Those were our mothers and grandmothers. Most of the women in the workforce were single or divorced women. In those days women had to stay home and take care of their families.

They were the unacknowledged angels who helped build the society we live in today. God bless the mothers of that era.

Answer 4

Women cooked in the 50's, in ovens or wood stoves

Answer 5

How - stove
Whom - women, wives, daughters