Hard Times, wild meat, sustainable Table, it can be done!
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1 cup selfrising flour
2/3 to 3/4 cup
heavy cream
400 degrees 20 minutes
water gravy
1/4 cup grease
1/4 cup flour
2 cups water
Salt and pepper
squirrel
1 cup flour
Salt pepper
1/2 inch Lard
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When we were kids we lived with my father's parents. We were so poor that about all the meat we had was wild meat given to my Grandmother. She was a great cook. At around 69 years old she was raising 5 kids. Thank the Lord my Grandmother opened her home to us. We had nowhere else to go.
Cann't tell you how many times I had to make the turkey gravy at Thanksgiving and Christmas time for friends who never learned how to make gravy. Mom had to go back to work when I was in 8th grade and my sister and I did the cooking for our family of 7. We had water gravy with almost every meal and kind of meat! One of our favorite meals was left over roast chopped up in left over gravy over torn up white bread with buttered green peas. Momma said a roast is always better on the second day. My Dad and both Grandpas were big hunters and fishermen ! Momma said all of their meat was wild during the Depression and what ate depended on what grandpa found when he hunted after work and on weekends. They lived in small city outside Pittsburgh Pa. They were blessed to feed a family of 6 and many strangers who came to their door asking for food! Dad grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. He said his Mom would cook anything he brought home and always praised him. One time she came to visit us in TX during quail season and she fried up a mess of quail. They didn't have quail in Wis and she thought they were great. The tiny wishbones were so cute to her she took some home. God Bless
I grew up on squairl deer rabbit quail
❤I love watching Danny do a video! Nice job ! Hope to see more like this . But I have to say that I Love me some Miss Lori !♥️
My Dad and my brothers were always hunting squirrels or rabbits, I love them with gravy and biscuits. That was the only meat we had. My Dad was a coal miner. We were poor. And of course we had water gravy. Back then Mom would buy cans of pet milk to make gravy when she could.
My mother sucked the brain out. My brother ate the squirrels but us girls wouldn't touch them. Same went for rabbits. Only time she would cook a separate meal for us. Usually you ate what was on the table or you did without. I did try rabbit after I got married. It was good.
I sure do love you two! It's refreshing to see "normal" people eating and cooking together. This is how we grew up and I will never change. We grew up poor and I have never been more richer for it. God bless both of you!
@@jennil7797 yes we are!
@@jennil7797 hello Mr
Hello Mr Brown this is Thomas I hope the dentist come out good Mr Brown I know a brown wild squirrel let me reply back Mr Brown
I have a memory from 1956 of mom peeling potatoes for dinner and giving my brother and me the peelings to eat and we loved it! Nothing went to waste and we were never hungry. She also taught us that black bananas were the sweetest so we loved them too. So if you teach your children when their young about food, they won't turn their nose up at it.
I would deep fry the potato skins as chips.
@@njmorrissey9437 Yes, I think of all the fun ways they make food today & would have loved that but we did get to walk home from school for lunch & mom would fix my brother & me french fries. This was back in the 1950's.
Many a times we were short of food a few days before payday and we'd have fried potatoes sometimes in bacon grease or brown gravy with onions over bread. I never got sick of it. I can't do it as well as my Mom did. I think it was the extra special ingredient, her love that made it so good. God bless you.
All us kids would line up at the sink to get some potato peels when mom was cooking! Great memory!
I was raised on rabbit,squirrel, turtle, ground hog and frog legs. We thought we were rich because we had meat. We raised a 2 acre garden. We never went hungry. We were so blessed. I could listen to y'all talk all day long. Bless y'all. We also ate squirrel and dumplings.
That is awesome!
Miss Lori, there were times when I was raising my eleven children that I only had canned beans to feed my family. I surely know what hard times are all about. There was a winter we had no kerosene and we had to bundle our children up and put them in the same bed so they could stay warm. God Bless!
Thats hard times sister, God Bless
I am so glad you had the strength to get your family through such hard times. I hope things are easier for you now.
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Thxs for the video
A lot of people are fixin' to find out what Hard Times really means.
Entire generations of them.
Been there, done that, gonna do it again.
The Good Lord willing, I'll be around long enough to teach some of these younguns a thing or two.
God bless you both.
Good attitude! I hope these spoiled young ones will be willing to learn!
Maybe it's a good thing to have hard times, perhaps it's just what we need to come together again as a nation rather than a nation divided. To get back to some basic values of family, community, and treating each other as human beings, not as the enemy.
We were raised in a coal camp & saw lots of hard times (we also had squirrel & gravy)... during those times families really appreciated getting the supplemental commodities. I loved those big blocks of american cheese, the peanut butter & mom would make the best bbq's with those big cans of beef. Thinking back those hard times were the best of times.
I grew up a city girl and never ate squirrel until I got married and moved to the country. My husband brought home squirrel and cooked it up for dinner, just the way Mr. Brown did. It was surprisingly good. Thanks for all you do, you are my favorite folks! ❤
I'm 65 years old and you have taken me back in time with this video. I remember Dad hanging 3 or 4 squirrels aside for dinner. I ate squirrel, rabbit and deer quite a bit as a kid.
Thank you folks for inviting us into your kitchen, cooking and a chat is just what I needed this morning. Blessings
Please make more videos like this where you all sit down and eat while you tell how you grew up, etc.!! I loved listening cause it brought back so many memories of my family gathered around the supper table! There was 6 of us and we ate many, many meals of squirrels and gravy and biscuits. My daddy and brother were big squirrel hunters. Mama always stewed them in the pressure cooker and then made gravy from the broth. I loved eating the legs and tenderloin!! For the 6 of us, mom would cook 3 or 4 squirrels. My older sister and brother always ate the heads (brains and tongue) but I never wanted to try it. I grew up in the 50s and 60s, but my parents were married during the depression and went through some really tough times over in the mountains of southwest Virginia. So I know squirrel meat was a sustainable food back in those days, sometimes a chicken. Mom had a Jersey milk cow and chickens so, as you two said, lots of meals was just gravy and biscuits with eggs. Soup beans (pintos) and cornbread was another sustainable meal. I hope the coming food shortage won't be as severe as things I'm hearing, but the Good Lord will supply us if we trust in Him.
I wished they would too. I love it
After reading this your making me sooo hungry.
This.... was my first video of you two. Cooking squirrel... well? one day I may have to. Have a hard time thinking about that squirrel I been trying to make friends with... as dinner. Thank you both for bringing us back down to everyday living, do what you can do... prepare what you can prepare, and for reminding us that the Good Lord will provide. I have been poor most my life after leaving home. Raised my kids as a single mom, all three with special needs and myself finding out I had Epilepsy all my life. It has been a tough go. You live Like I wished I could get myself to... piece of land, some gardens, good old fashioned way of living. Am still trying. Praying for you two and asking for a prayer back. You moved me so much I subscribed also. You both are a blessing and I look forward to the next video you put out. Blessings.
I grew up in the Caribbean and can also relate in many ways. We don’t have squirrels but we had a wonderful community and the farmers shared everything, we never went without even when we didn’t have meat. I love your stories, you’re both such a blessing. Thank you! 🥰 God bless you!
LOVE hearing Mr. Brown’s stories from childhood!!!
I second that emotion 💯
I feel like I’m at home with you both. We are pretty sustainable. I don’t rely much on stores thankfully. My husband hunts also as a bonus. Last summer I taught my daughter in law how to can. My son said, thanks mom. ❤️
I have four sons. The youngest is 15. They all hunt. We’re going to be okay. I’m not worried. I know what’s coming. I’ve known my entire adult life. Just ready now to help those who didn’t know but do now.
Amen ❤️
I was a little girl and I remember helping my Dad skin squirrels and rabbits. My Mom would make squirrel gravy, which was delish. I would watch my uncles skin deer and butcher it up. At one point, I could have butchered one up myself. It was a good time and a simple time that I yearn for. You both take me back to the good times. I just wish I knew then those were the good times. I would have cherished them more.
We're raising quail ❤ I've never been one to eat anything other than what I could buy at the store, but times like this I can't be picky.
I've been raising them for close to 3 yrs. It's a dense meat, eat less than what you eat for chicken. If you get upset stomach, it's bc you're not use to it. 2nd time you eat it you'll be fine. Quail is great to raise for eggs n meat, quick turn around. Just put 60 of our eggs in incubator today, renewing some cages and fill freezer.
Girl, you don't know what you are missing!
Quail is really tasty. Just make sure you have pan of water in oven if you roast them.
So good to see Mr. Brown showing his talent in the kitchen!!
I was raised on rabbit, squirrel, deer ,and sometimes bear. Fresh caught fish were a favorite too. We raised chickens and pigs and I would buy a half a beef .
My Dad worked hard to provide for his family… just couldn’t ever eat the brains like he did!
I am so thankful I was raised raising a big garden and canning everything we possibly could. Love to watch you and Mrs Lori. Please keep back to the basics recipes coming! Much appreciated.
Amen..you are truly a Blessing to us older than you who remember when, and younger ones wanting to learn...you don't over whelm, you explain it simple and that there's other ways, to do things but this is one of the ways....🙏❣️
I don't like milk in my gravy! I prefer water gravy. My mom made water gravy & then would put some of the fried squirrel back in the gravy & let it steam with the top on it, & it had the best flavor. I think milk gravy is way overrated! I like my gravy brown & water is good to make brown gravy with & it's so good with homemade biscuits. I loved this video. We had a lot of venison to eat too! My dad always furnished wild meat when we needed it & my mom was an excellent cook. We never went hungry...thanks be to God!
Miss Lori....I am older than you and just have to tell you something. I have every type of cookbook in my collection......but I have NEVER seen a cookbook with such an enormous amount of wealth as yours. The work you put into it is astounding. Not only the great recipes, but all the hints you give are wonderful. Besides that, all the remarkable other information you provided regarding cooking knowledge is beyond what you would ever expect in a cookbook. Thank you again for all the effort put into it, every time I look through it I am learning something new....even in my old age. Love you. Bea
Wow Thank you, so kind
@@WhippoorwillHoller Well, it is the truth for sure.....also so pretty and vintage looking.
Thank you for being calm and steady in these crazy times
I lost my husband of 52 years last June suddenly.
I love watching you as you talk as and reminisce together
I miss that greatly
God Bless y'all
You two are a shining light in these troubled times. Your encouragement is such a blessing to so many. God Bless you for all you do and all you share. We love you both!
Greetings from East Texas! Roasting here on n East Texas too! The HUMIDITY! Ugh. Love the simple Old Fashion Suppers. I confess I have never had squirrel. However given the current state of food issues…. Squirrels will NOW be known as…..
TREE CHICKEN 🤣🤣🤣. Happy HAPPY Fathers Day to you Mr Brown
This made me laugh out loud I like the name Tree Chicken
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I felt so blessed watching this video, brought me a lot of memories. I am 75 years old and I remember my father working almost every single day to take care of us. We were seven kids and my mother stayed home most of the time taking care of us. We ate what was put in front of us and sometimes we had hard times but the Lord always put food on our table and helped with the bills. My parents were both hard working and taught us the value of work. We were blessed.
I'd love to see how he skins and cleans them. It would be very informative for someone like me. Great video, thanks!
I love this. Funny thing: I was grown before I realized people made gravy regularly with milk. We always made it with water because my grandmother was pinching every penny to keep us all fed! Y’all make me miss home and inspire me to teach my kids the old ways. Keep it up!!
I still make water gravy,, And the memories of eating squirrels, rabbits, rattlesnakes, deer, what ever we could get. There were 13 of us. I've started raising rabbits again, and being a southern girl we have plenty of the others..My husband is English and finds all my canning and gardening and teaching him to hunt is great. He says the only thing missing is the covered wagons lol .I'm very grateful for some of the modern technology to be honest. Life was rough way back then, we have it so easy
Loved seeing pa cooking and listening to his stories. I would love to see the picture of your little one holding the squirrel for her dad!
I grew up with water gravy. Milk gravy was a treat. In a family of 7 we didn’t have a milk cow so a gallon of milk had to be stretched. If we ran out we used “PET” milk mixed with water. My father raised quail, rabbit, ducks and turkeys that we ate with whatever came out of the garden. Oh man tomatoes and gravy ❤️ I love listening to y’all !!
And it was so good!
You two are the brightest channel on TH-cam. It just makes my heart so glad to see you BOTH no matter what you are doing. I love that you still drink from the same glass of tea when you eat. Can't wait to see the outside when you do a walk around. Bold blessings on all you do!
Thank you so much 🤗
We’ve been watching y’all for a bit now, and love your content. This morning though, it resonated with both us. Which prompted me to comment. We were both raised “poor” and didn’t know it. Hubby was raised on a dairy farm, with that being the only income. Both my parents worked low income jobs. Neither of us did without. My father, taught us how to fish, hunt, gather wood, and many other ways to survive. My mother. She taught us how to make meals from practically nothing. Squirrel, rabbit, venison, and fish were many times the protein on the table. The water gravy y’all make, we knew that as brown gravy. And we still make it today. So yummy. We are both so thankful that with the way we were both raised that we were taught to make do. And that is what gets us through along with our faith in God. He provides for the sparrow, how much more would he provide for us💕. Blessings to you both for central PA.
Thank you, xoxoxo
You two take me back...... I lived in Arkansas for 9 wonderful years. Had both of my babies there, too. When we got new neighbors , we invited them for supper and I served squirrel and dumplings. YUM! Bless you!
Watching y’all makes me so happy and sad at the same time.
I miss sitting around talking about our day with my late husband. Talking about our plans for the future. Your both are so blessed. I know I was blessed to have the time we had together. I cherish my memories with him. Joe was such a sweet loving man.
I do love your videos and your chats they are so loving and heart felt. Thanks for inviting us into your life.
Im so sorry, I knmow you miss him, xoxoxo
This is a needed video.
Think farmers market offering corn, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, taters, cantaloupe, watermelon, peaches, and peppers ... and blueberries and blackberries.
With the squirrel stew, add sweet potatoes, fried potatoes with onions, macaroni and cheese, or turnips.
Don't forget tomato gravy, biscuits, and an egg dinner.
Also, don't forget sweet tomatoes and pasta stew.
Think of the passarounds at Lambert's, fried potatoes, fried okra, cabbage, macaroni and tomatoes, apple butter, molasses, and rolls. For meat, think rabbit, squirrel, turtle, goat, and fish or seafood caught. Also, chicken, turkey, quail, gizzards, livers, and eggs. And boiled peanuts.
Thank you Mr. Brown and Miss Lori.🙂
My mom was raised in the NE. She said there was a time that lobster was considered poor man's food.😳
It made me chuckle that you called it water gravy. ☺️ We just called it gravy because we rarely used milk.
Love and blessings! 💜
My grandfather would bring home “A mess of squirrels “. He would clean them and quarter, Grandma would fry up the legs and thighs and make biscuits and gravy for breakfast. She’d cook up the rest for supper, including the heads with the brains inside and use the salty, peppery, broth for making dumplings. The gravy it made from the dumplings was my favorite poured over a hunk of cornbread ! My grandfather loved the brains! Good memories 🥰
Fried and Smothered in gravy! Over homemade biscuits! And seasonal fruit cobbler for dessert ! Accompanied by canned or fresh-out-of-the-garden veggies! I honor the woman who showed me what a real "grandmother" could be. Liza. ❤️ ❣️
I've lived in Tennessee all my life and have eat a lot of squirrel. At granny's house if we had fried squirrel, you could count on a bowl of squirrel heads on the table. Her and pa loved the brains. The tongue, that's a new one on me. Great episode! It brought back a lot of great childhood memories! Love ya'll! Blessings to you and your family!
You two are such a precious couple. Love Mr Brown’s stories about how things were when he was growing up. The meal you cooked looked excellent. Blessings always. ♥️🙏🏼♥️
I can listen to you two talk for ever. Reminds me of my grandparents. God bless the both of you and thanks for all your prays.
You two are such a blessing and a joy to listen too! I grew up in a house of 6 kids and 10 on most weekends. We always had something to eat. It may not have been fancy but we didn't go hungry. My oldest brother brought the rowboat out and set lines for carp. He'd bring them home and dig a hole in the garden to place them in so Mom could plant tomato plants, etc. We got flooded out of our home twice while growing up and got shipped out to neighbors who lived on higher ground. We thought that was a party but looking back at it, it was a miserable time for my folks. There were times my folks had some money for new/used bikes but most of the time we didn't know any better that Mom and Dad struggled. Our parents are gone now and one of our brothers. I'm the youngest at 59 y/o but if life becomes tough for any of us, we are always there for each other. I wouldn't change a thing growing up. We are all the better for it!
Thank you so much for this video! It was very encouraging & brought peace. I grew up with not a whole lot, but God always provided our needs! Blessings to you two!
Thank you
I love hearing the stories you guys tell about your past
I love to see a man in the kitchen cooking 🧑🍳, y’all can sit and reminisce all ya want to, it’s almost like sitting around your table with you and in some strange way it’s comforting to hear stories that are very similar to our own from back in the day only I grew up and still live in the City. We have squirrels and a few rabbits in our back yard but I don’t think the neighbors would be all that happy with us if we start shooting them since we’re a tad bit close to each other. 🤗
You don't need to shoot them. Just get a live trap and put some peanut butter in it. I've caught 2 that way but we released them about 5 miles down the road. Club them, I don't know? How do you kill squirrels without shooting them?
@@gowest5145 You drown them and no bullets to pick out. :-) Put the entire cage in a pond or 55 gal barrel of water.
This city girl can't imagine eating squirrel but never say never. If I have to, I will be thankful to have it. Loved this video and message filled with true wisdom!
This city gurl too 😂 I just said to my husband I'll make a gravy with the lard and a biscuit 🤣
I grew up eating squirrels my daddy and brother got. I've always though squirrel tasted like the dark meat of chicken. It's really good!
That was the loveliest, wisest chit chat I've had the pleasure of watching and listening too. Bless you both🙏😊
I’m enjoying just watching Mr Brown eat! 😉 My gramps would have us feed the squirrels stale peanuts he got in exchange for gram’s homemade bread at the general store. That way the squirrels would be easy to get.
Same thing here! They come right up to the porch to take bread and seeds and I believe I am fattening them up for whatever is coming up soon. God bless y'all!
We grew up eating squirrels and rabbits....so good. My Mom could cook delicious wild meat...she always soaked meats overnight in cold/salted water.
I’ve heard of soaking wild game in milk, but I’m not familiar with it myself.
Never ate squirrel but I have had hard times; we've all been through it. But I too am at a point in my my life where I can say that I am blessed. Those rough times are what got us to where we are today. Keep telling your stories and reminding us that we aren't the only ones who've struggled. Love you guys.
Please do not stop being real y'all. Tell your stories. Our world needs it.
So much respect.
God Bless
Mr Brown, you and Miss Lori are national treasures. I love watching you both so much (from the West of England).
Thank you so much!
I love watchin y'all cook. When I was growing up, I didn't know you bought food in a store. We grew, hunted or raised our food. I was a teenager before I realized it. I made sure my sons knew how to do the same. That way I don't have to worry about them starving or not being able to get food if something should happen.
My parents were avid hunters and fishers, and my mother was a wonderful cook who made all that wild game and fish into what seemed like a gourmet meal. We ate squirrel, rabbit, grouse, duck, venison, walleye, northerns, trout and smelt, plus they had a huge garden that we would can all during the fall harvest. They were sustainable and organic in the 60s before it was popular! It was just a way they fed their young family.
That is awesome!
Mr Brown is a good cook. I’ve never had squirrel but if I was hungry you bet I’d eat it. I grew up eating peasant Italian food, my grandparents were immigrants and lived through the depression.
Love you guys. Be blessed ❤️
Mr. Brown's cookin reminds me of my momma's cookin. Only difference is she'd always added slices of tomatoes to every dinner. She fully believed in a vegetable with every meal.
Howdy again! Mr Brown, will you please do a video showing how you skin and cut up squirrel?
Oh yes, we do need a video that shows details on skinning, cleaning and total processing squirrel,rabbits and deer.
Same way you clean a rabbit…..👍
@@dontrump9362 - never skinned or eaten a rabbit either
@@rebeccasanford8607 its fairly easy to clean either one…I cut a slit across the middle of the back and grab both slits
And pull the hide off…cut the feet, head off and gut…..they have plenty youtube videos on how its done. 👍
@@dontrump9362 that is one of the harder ways to skin them.
That squirrel looks delicious. Love watching and listening to your stories. 🙏❤️
I truly appreciate this video and everything you showed and spoke of. Reassuring to be reminded that people throughout history have gone through tough times and made it through. My momma did and my grandma did
I love the longer videos and the ones where you two sit down and talk! Never had squirrel but...love biscuits and gravy.
You both just touch my heart. I feel like I’m having dinner with my Grandparents again.
Deer, fish, and vegetables tomatoes, okra, peas, rice, beans, cucumbers in white vinegar, onions, peppers. Great eating. We ate everything on our plates, and THANK THE GOOD LORD FOR HAVING SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT.
I was raised on wild game including snapping turtle. So happy to see Mr. Brown cook and telling stories, had to giggle when he was talking about your daughter holding the squirrels while they skinned them. I used to help my grandfather do this. Brought back some good memories. I do not hunt but I still help skin and butcher deer. Thank you for the wonderful video. Brought back a lot of good memories from family dinners of squirrel. God Bless you both.
Seriously I just threw out some stale bread for the birds, a squirrel came walking along top of fence came into the yard eating the bread. I watched him through my glass back door. So darn cute the way they hold the food and eat.
It would be hard for me to eat one, but I know if it was nothing else I guess I would have to.
I’ve prepared deer meat that our son brings to us.
I’m not much into it though.
Let’s pray in name of
Jesus Christ that our country will recover from this madness coming from
Washington DC.
Jesus is our Lord and Savior 🙏🏻✝️
Thank You Mr. Brown and Lori.
I would love for it to recover, but I don’t have much hope for it. I don’t trust in politics or our leaders to save our country anymore. I think we must be experiencing the beginnings of the wrath of God on our wicked world. I want to go home.
Just received my cookbook from y’all! Thank you for all the love you put into this “first edition!” Can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
Raised watching Justin Wilson on PBS, I laughed out loud! Thank you 😊
Yep I remember visiting friends about 10 years ago and she was making squirrel head soup. 😇 I might have liked it fried up like you made the squirrel. They had the squirrel meat with a few veggies. With the floating heads. I am so glad they had venison also on the menu. I love watching y’all.
Aw now, I love yaw to pieces, but I can’t eat no squirrel! 😬
What a wonderful feast!! You two are such a blessing for us all. 🙏💜🙏
Watching you today just comforted me -sure been missing my Great grandmother and my Granny. I just love watching and listening to you both. It’s the best “pick me up” to watch you. My heartfelt Thanks! Sending you Wyoming Bearhugs
Xoxoxox
This brought back so many memories! I was raised by my grandparents who grew up in the hills near Dayton Tennessee. We were painfully poor and many times relied on the squirrel grandpa shot in our woods behind the house. Grandma would make a big pot of potatoes and riv'lins and a skillet of cornbread and we'd eat on that for 3-4 days.
I make cornbread and potatoes and riv'lins for my son's while they were growing up when times were tough.
They're all grown now, and work jobs that bring big money, but they always want cornbread and riv'lins when they come home to visit 😂
We grew up making beef and chicken gravy with water. The only time I have added milk to gravy is when I started making biscuits and gravy. We live in northern BC in Canada and eat a ton of game, mostly moose deer and grouse. Our squirrels here are real small but we have talked if things get tough..we will eat it. Thank you for doing this video. I think it’s important. Cheers 🇨🇦🌷
My family ate many squirrels,rabbit when I was first married. My late husband loved to hunt. The video was great ,I love hearing the stories. Thank you ❤
My Dad would give me 5 - .22 shells when I went squirrel hunting and he expected 5 squirrels. My dog always went with and if I missed, the squirrel would usually run down the tree. My dog would be waiting and catch it for me. I loved that dog. It took 5 squirrels to feed the family. I love water gravy using bacon grease and some minced onion.
I am 82 today (June 21) and my mother always made sure to let me know that it was the longest day of the year in more ways than one. We left Chicago to live in Michigan on a small fruit farm that had a little bit of everything from vegetables to pigs, chickens, a cow and other animals and a variety of fruit. I also started my hunting around 9+ years of age and most of the year whether during the season or not. I also fished the rivers and ponds around the area if they were within walking distance. What wonderful times they were. Thank you for the memories.
Love this video! Reminded me of the first time I ate squirrel at my MIL's. She cooked it so well that I learned how to make them from her. We have one son who would make sure he kept his Maw Maw in squirrels, as well as us. There is no way we would have problems eating them if meat becomes more scarce! Deer, rabbits, squirrels, wild hogs...none of it scares us. My MIL also ate the heads, but I can pass on them.
Mrs. Lori, I love your videos. Thank you and Mr. Brown for sharing your lives with us. Could you please make a video sharing a list of ingredients you would buy to prepare for the times that are coming and maybe more recipes that are filling and low cost? Thank you and if you can't I completely understand.
Mr Brown, check your vent pipe on your roof. It may have a bird nest or squirrel hahaha. It happened to us. It kept the water from flowing freely. And I could hear it in my kitchen sink. Just a thought.
Yes I have thought of that it will be the first place I look thanks
YAL REALLY TOOK ME BACK HOME....I'M 62 AND MOMMA USED RING CHICKENS NECK & WE'LD CLEAN AND SHE'D FRY IT ALL.. NECK..BACK , THEN MAKE WATER GRAVY IN DRIPPINGS...WE LIVED ON TOMATO GRAVY ,TATER GRAVY DRIED BEANS & RICE..GRITS & EGGS AT BREAKFAST..SHE MADE BISCUITS EVER MEAL....WE NEVER THOUGHT OURSELVES AS POOR ....WE WERE HAPPY
THANKS FOR TAKING ME BACK TO GOOD OLE DAYS...HAPPY FATHER'S DAY MR BROWN...
Southeast Mississippi watching! It’s hotter than hades here…106° heat index 49% humidity… sweltering! Been trying to get freezers cleared out of what can be canned and cooked. I’ll be butchering meat birds in a lil over a month … hopefully, will be able to can a lot of that as well as bone broth.
I'm watching from Southeast Mississippi as well.
Chicken bone broth? That's good stuff!
@@Frankie_902 Wayne County 😉
@@MimsysGarden I'm in George Co.
Watching Mr. Brown is pure joy. Love watching Miss Lori…you are both like my best friends. Enjoy hearing your stories and learning more good food. God bless both of you!
What a treasure you two are. I am delighted watching this & listening to you share about life and how to walk through hard times…Wisdom we all need. Make more videos like this please ❤️ I grew up poor (though I didn’t know it) and my parents called everything “chicken” when we were growing up so I’m pretty sure I’ve had squirrels many a time without knowing it 😉
Mr. and mrs. Brown you'll amaze me, cuz we was raised with rabbits an squirrel, home garden ,chickens, my mom was about 4'6 and would put one chicken on each hand ring their neck, we were 10 kids pluse mom an dad so 12 of us we never knew we were poor, mom would make our clothes, like I said a farm lady,I look back see that the good Lord never let us do with out,Praise the Lord
Excellent supper!!! Thank you for sharing!!! 🥰😍
Lord your a good man!,,
We got married nov. 78, had two children and we’ve both worked our whole lives. 45 years married this year! We still work and provide to the table what we can. Those are the best marriages! Congrats on your long lives together!
I so love you two! Thank you for sharing your skills and stories! God bless you both!
Hope Ms. Lori is doing well. 🙏💨💓 Brings back memories.😊 We always had buttermilk for biscuits.
This was like sitting around with family! Loved it, and you two can chat as long as you like! We'll listen. The way things are going we all need a refresher on sustainable living! I remember mom frying up some corn mush, that was a treat!
I remember helping my brother, Joe, clean many a squirrel in the wee hours of the night. Boy, they were good. We always made water gravy. With 13 mouths, the milk cow barely kept up.
My parents grew up in the depression, we were taught how to eat like this and lived on wild game, and poor folks food. Sometimes we had biscuits and gravy and sometimes it was bread and gravy. There were always beans, sometimes beans and cornbread. Grits for breakfast, poke salat, and greens. You can never go hungry if you can gather nettles and dandelions.
I’ve never eaten dandelion. Do you just eat the stems or what?
@@proudmarinemomma827 , the leaves are good in salads, you can dip in batter and deep fry the flowers, nettle leaves you have to harvest with gloves then wash and sauté them. There is a weed called lambs quarters that is edible the leaves go good in salad or sautéed.
A good biscuit completes a meal. Even if you only have beans to eat. My grandmother cooked rabbit chili stew was delicious with fresh tortillas!
Mr. Brown, I never had squirrel...not really fond of game meat. But it looks good. Thanks for sharing ...you and Ms.Lori be blessed. ❤💞
I'm 75 and I held many a squirrel and rabbit for my dad. Fried squirrel, squirrel pot poi. 😋 Fried rabbit. Plenty of deer too. Great times and memories. Thank you so much. God bless
Lawdy have mercy ,My dad did the same thing with the heads. Squirrel sausage and gravy. Lot of memories you bought back to me. I even held them while he dressed them out. I will never forget, THANK YOU for the video.
I was brought up learning from my gramma how to make “ the poor man’s “ food. And it was the best eats I ever had. Thank y’all for teaching us love you 💕🙋🏻♀️y’all are the best! I never thought I was poor I felt bad for other kids cuz they didn’t have my gramma to cook for them 🥰
Enjoyed your conversations about hard times! Yes, my heading into my 70th year I remember and wondered how to pay the electric bill and all that stuff back in the day! I pray for the young families who are struggling now with all the high prices we are currently going through! I just know that they are going through a lot of stress! As always, I enjoy listening to you and Mr. Brown talk! BTY... "Happy Father's Day Mr. Brown!"
We enjoy grits and greens or beans and cornbread. Some call this "poor mans" food but we just call it a simple pleasure. It's all in your mindset and remember to always be grateful.
We thank GOD for squirrels, rabbits, doves, quail. It fed us many a meal. We made 100 quarts blackberry, Muscatine every year. Mother gave jelly as gifts, and everyone was thankful for the jelly. GOD BLESS YOU AND MR BROWN. GREAT JOB MR. BROWN.
Thank you I have learned so much from you and your husband God bless you both have a wonderful day
My Sister lives on a big farm and they love deer season. They actually have it processed and wrapped not to waste a bit. The bits left over, they turn into deer burger. They also squirrel hunt. I promise they cook or fry it. No animal gone to waste on their farm. 👍💕
I'm nearly 63. I grew up in the country. My father and brother fish and hunt. We grew up with having milk cows, rabbits, chickens, etc. Common meals was beans, fried potatoes and corn bread. We also had water gravy and biscuits when my mother wasn't working because she worked full time. We also had large gardens. Two of my favorite meats are rabbit and quail. I still love them today. X's &
I like squirrels, water gravy, & biscuits. I have a lot of memories with this meal with my parents. I showed my kids how to cook this meal.