food of the past?

Question

in the early weused to eat bread and dripping it was called on sandwiches with pepper.other countries call it lard or fat,i wonder how and if kids could cope today,can anyone remember these times.i came from a very poor family

Answer 1

Christmas Eve in Sweden includes a tradition called "dipping in the kettle" (dopp i grytan), in which the assembled family and guests dip bits of bread in the broth left over after boiling the ham. "Dipping in the kettle" are actually a poor mans fare from olden days, but they live on thanks to their role in holiday festivities. I am 60+. We have kept the tradition in our family.

Answer 2

I am 14 years old.
My father and his parents and brother love dripping toast, although they do not have it very often! I would think of it as lard, but i would call it dripping.
I would NOT eat it, but i am a vegetarian, and it is fat from a meat source. I htink it is quite disgusting really, because of all the fat in it!
However, i see your point. I htink that i would find it very hard to live that kind of lifestyle, and i cannot imagine what it would be like. Although i do not come from a poor family, i never had a playstation etc and have only recently got a tv in my room.

I do want to experience things like this, and i am going on a trip to morocco in April next year with the school. This will be such a wonderful experience, as we have a 5 day trek, so we will be living without running water, toilets, food, electricity, etc. Lots of people have said they wont be able to cope, but i htink it will be such a great opportunity, and a great challenge. I know i am veering off the point here-but i hope you can see what i am getting at, that my school has offered us something that shows us live as a poor/ homeless person.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

My parents where both born in Texas during the 30's. It was the dust bowl and the depression. They have told me stories about the lack of variety in food. I remember my mother often keeping a drippings can on the stove and saving bacon & sausage grease. We ate a lot of country gravy made with drippings and milk and eat it over bread when my mom didn't feel like cooking.

I grew up in the 70's and never had to eat dripping sandwiches for a meal, but I remember many times having my mom think nothing about letting us play camp in a tent with a bag of white bread and bottle of bbq sauce so we could have bbq sandwich in our tent. No meat, or anything just bread and Kraft BBQ sauce.

Hmmmm....she thinks I'm weird because I'm a vegetarian.

Answer 4

I am 26 and my parents were poor growing up. My mom saved the fat drippings from all the meat she used and recycled it. I don't know that I ever ate it on a slice of bread but she used that fat to make pie crust and boy was it good!

Answer 5

Gee, consumer society, throw everything away after one usage! We still keep all the used cooking oil here, and re-use it for the next thing we fry! But we don't eat bread here, this is Borneo speaking... let's say we fry some fish, then keep the oil (sometimes even in the kuali) and re-use it for the next fish, or egg, or whatever. Besides, used oil flavours the next dish... anyway, don't know if really good for our health sometimes!

Answer 6

I remember fatback and they still sell it where I live, and it still clogs your arteries, and I don't care because I have prefect cholesterol and bp and will never die from a heart attack. Kids cope with MacDonalds fat burgers and fat fries, probably worse than what we ate. I came from a poor family too, and it's funny sometimes I see fatback in specialty stores and it's not cheap (it's cuisine now).

Answer 7

That's part of the reason heart disease is so rampant!