Me too. I find it interesting how food is shaped by culture and events, and how food shapes culture. I grew up with my grandfather telling me stories about the farm he grew up on in Louisiana. There was always some mention of food. How he would get a sweet potato out of the oven for a snack as he headed out to work on the farm after school, or how when they had to slaughter cows because of Roosevelt’s strategy to get out of the depression, his mom canned all that meat. How he started hunting squirrels at the age of 12 to help feed his family.
@@Melia-BitsAndPieces wow, that’s interesting to hear. I wish I have gotten to know more about my grandparents lives like this especially since my country went through a civil war, but I didn’t get to ask them much when I was young. Thank you for sharing your stories though, ma’am ❤️
I’m amazed by the amount of eggs the recipe calls for. I’m assuming it’s something you have to save up your rations for, if you really crave cheesecake 😂 Thanks for sharing! I have tons of old cookbooks but don’t have the energy to try them out, so this was great to watch 😊
As this was is a US cookbook, they didn’t ration eggs during WW II. But there is a gentleman I know that wasn’t allowed serve in the military because his family had a chicken farm, and that was considered important work. My grandmother’s wartime job was working in a factory making the dried eggs that were used by the military and exported to the UK. I think it was her first job that wasn’t picking cotton.
This is quite an interesting piece of history. I am always more interested in the food aspect of our history, so thank you for sharing this 😊💖
Me too. I find it interesting how food is shaped by culture and events, and how food shapes culture. I grew up with my grandfather telling me stories about the farm he grew up on in Louisiana. There was always some mention of food. How he would get a sweet potato out of the oven for a snack as he headed out to work on the farm after school, or how when they had to slaughter cows because of Roosevelt’s strategy to get out of the depression, his mom canned all that meat. How he started hunting squirrels at the age of 12 to help feed his family.
@@Melia-BitsAndPieces wow, that’s interesting to hear. I wish I have gotten to know more about my grandparents lives like this especially since my country went through a civil war, but I didn’t get to ask them much when I was young. Thank you for sharing your stories though, ma’am ❤️
I’m amazed by the amount of eggs the recipe calls for. I’m assuming it’s something you have to save up your rations for, if you really crave cheesecake 😂 Thanks for sharing! I have tons of old cookbooks but don’t have the energy to try them out, so this was great to watch 😊
As this was is a US cookbook, they didn’t ration eggs during WW II. But there is a gentleman I know that wasn’t allowed serve in the military because his family had a chicken farm, and that was considered important work.
My grandmother’s wartime job was working in a factory making the dried eggs that were used by the military and exported to the UK. I think it was her first job that wasn’t picking cotton.