Eating in the 50's

[Johnny g]

It's like a bagel with no hole and smothered with onions. You have to like onions to like these but, trust me, you will like bialys.

Oh you are so right, I would like them, will be watching for them.

 

[sixdogs]

Oh you are so right, I would like them, will be watching for them.

If you're from Ontario, you might have to head to Buffalo or Toronto or any Jewish place that makes bagels. That's where you will find bialys. Fresh is best and if they are fresh, get extras for the ride home. Get some "half moon" cookies as well if they have them. Chocolate frosting on one half and vanilla on the other.

 

[milkman]

You aren't missing much, I don't care for them either. But maybe I never had any but the cardboard ones.

Try the Tim Horton's toasted multigrain bagel with butter or cream chese, yum yum.

 

[sixdogs]

Try the Tim Horton's toasted multigrain bagel with butter or cream chese, yum yum.

OK, you want good butter? Make that great butter. Go to Costco and get the "Kerry Gold" butter from Dublin, Ireland. It's a tie for what I believe to be the best butter on earth. The tie is with Canadian butter from Quebec City, Quebec.

Kerry Gold takes an ordinary bagel and wow, makes it out of this world. A bialy from heaven? Smear it with that butter. Wonder bread cinnamon toast? Yup, that butter.

 

[Kentuckyfarmer]

Venturing to stray a bit from the topic at hand, it's my personal opinion that one of the things that has made this country great is the fact that we have all assimilated and have become a small part of a larger whole. However, our education system for so many years has been, in the manner of politics, primarily local. I went to a one room school that had grades one through eight, all taught by the same teacher. She was Teacher, Administrator, Superintendent, Principal, Janitor, Grounds keeper and Nurse. She pumped the water, lit the stove, swept the floor, rang the bell and bandaged our bunged up knees...and we learned. It had a flavor all of its own, and I might add an aroma all of its own, partially from the many brown bagged lunches that had sat on the shelf over the years, and partially from the nondescript two holers located not too far from the water well.

I graduated in a class of 18; and wouldn't trade the small school experience for anything. We were part of the community; as were the teachers. They lived in the community; most were born and raised there. My 7th and 8th grade teacher died in the same house where she was born in 1914; her husband was the Superintendent, basketball coach and Science teacher. They lived about two blocks from the school...which incidentally had running water, electricity and steam heat...but no A/C.

In sum, it is obvious that the transition from small locally controlled schools to gigantic, monolithic over-staffed, over regulated schools is not necessarily a good thing. A shiny, tiled and air conditioned gymnasium is a testimony to money thrown at an institution, but Astro-turf does not a doctor, engineer, accountant or a lawyer make, not does it necessarily crank out a cookie-cutter good citizen.

Eaten up with nostalgia? Maybe, but I think we are abandoning something so incredibly special and unique that we are beginning to lose part of our heritage, and to that extent part of the American personality. End of rant.

Well said!!!!

So many things wrong with the country these day. The list would be very long. I'm very glad I grew up by a very small town and country living was my education. The food, milk, butter, home made bread and all the garden Pickens is something this old mind will never forget. The respect, consideration, and respect we gave for one another is something lacking today. We got to know each other as a family by sitting at the table for each meal and at night sitting outside eating popcorn ball cooling off. No AC before we went to bed. A person get to know each other real well in those days and learned from the older ones even setting on one of the holes of the two holer next to your your uncle, cousin, grandmother or dad doing your business when you were a kid. Might of smelled a bit but it was also good for a chuckle too.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Anybody make sauerkraut by the wooden barrel?

We used crocks.

 

[PILOON]

I'm getting my taste buds going for nostalgic foods of yore.

One being toasting good (not sliced wonder) bread on a hot wood stove. Slightly blackened is best! With real butter!
My mother's veal casserole!

Pop corn, never mind Orville Rickenbacker, any corn kernels in a brown paper bag in the micro oven.

 

[TomSeller]

Well said!!!!

So many things wrong with the country these day. The list would be very long. I'm very glad I grew up by a very small town and country living was my education. The food, milk, butter, home made bread and all the garden Pickens is something this old mind will never forget. The respect, consideration, and respect we gave for one another is something lacking today. We got to know each other as a family by sitting at the table for each meal and at night sitting outside eating popcorn ball cooling off. No AC before we went to bed. A person get to know each other real well in those days and learned from the older ones even setting on one of the holes of the two holer next to your your uncle, cousin, grandmother or dad doing your business when you were a kid. Might of smelled a bit but it was also good for a chuckle too.

AMEN to every bit of that ^^^^.

That's the way I grew up and so much of it is missing these days.

I will say one thing, however, many younger families seems to have a friendship between kids and parents instead of the "respect/fear" present in my generation. HOWEVER, there seems to be ~3:1 ratio of messed up families to those that have that friendship bond. Who knows what is best.

 

[dmccarty]

OK, you want good butter? Make that great butter. Go to Costco and get the "Kerry Gold" butter from Dublin, Ireland. It's a tie for what I believe to be the best butter on earth. The tie is with Canadian butter from Quebec City, Quebec.

Kerry Gold takes an ordinary bagel and wow, makes it out of this world. A bialy from heaven? Smear it with that butter. Wonder bread cinnamon toast? Yup, that butter.

Lordy, this is making me hungry and I just ate an omelet and oatmeal for breakfast! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

We buy the Kerry Gold from Costco. The price is only a bit more than what we were paying for our usual butter in the grocery store. I *** THINK *** the big reason we are buying Kerry Gold was that the cows were eating grass and not being corn fed. When you hear that Ireland is green it is no joke. The place was super duper green when we were there last year. Just deep, dark, green grass all over the place. Very pretty and it has to be good eating for the bovines.

Kerry Gold is good butter but it is a bit freaky that we can buy butter from Ireland. :laughing: We do have a much better tasting butter from a local dairy. The problem is that it is expensive and we have to go out of our way to get it. I would pay the price if it was easier to get.

Back to oatmeal. I had head that oatmeal in Scotland and Ireland was different than what we have in the states. And it is different. It has a nutty flavor and it has some chew as well. I ordered some Scottish style oatmeal off of Amazon last week and it is really good. I eat oatmeal at work and I like it but the Scottish oatmeal is different. It is stone ground, which you would think would make it mushier but it has a bit of a bite to it and this nutty flavor which you can smell when cooking the oatmeal. I add a bit of honey, cinnamon, raisins, and slivered almonds. :licking::licking::licking: We bought a big jar of cinnamon from Costco which is really good. The cinnamon has some intense flavor and a bit of heat. The cinnamon is from Vietnam which is supposed to have some of the best cinnamon in the world. It certainly is better than the various brands we used to buy at the grocery store.

Later,
Dan

 

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AMEN to every bit of that ^^^^. That's the way I grew up and so much of it is missing these days. I will say one thing, however, many younger families seems to have a friendship between kids and parents instead of the "respect/fear" present in my generation. HOWEVER, there seems to be ~3:1 ratio of messed up families to those that have that friendship bond. Who knows what is best.

That would make a good research project. The good old days were NOT all like Little House on the Prairies!

 

[/pine]

...The good old days were NOT all like Little House on the Prairies!

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

 

[LD48750]

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper?
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner?
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Supper?

 

[scdeerslayer]

We too buy Costco bagels and freeze them. But Costco bagels are like many store bought bagels in that they are bagels in name only. Real bagels are boiled THEN baked. The boiling gives the bagel it's chewiness. I used to eat at least two bagel a day at a real bagel bakery and not having one near the house is a big negative about living in the country. After living in South FLA, and eating at Jewish deli's and bakeries, it was hard moving to NC because of the lack of some foods. The local bagel chain is good but they looked at me like I had horns when I asked if they had any bialy's. :licking::licking::licking: Course NC does have its vinegar pork BBQ with slaw which is very yummy and compensates for lack of good bagels and bialys. On the other hand, South FLA had Toms BBQ which was as tomato based BBQ and VERY good as well as Cuban bread and food. I do miss Cuban sandwiches....

Later,
Dan

You've not had good pork BBQ until you've had mustard based sauce. I wouldn't waste good pork to tomato based but that's fine for other meats, but vinegar is okay. Other than mustard sauce the only other sauce I use is an eastern NC vinegar/molasses/ketchup based sauce, AKA "the brew". I've never seen it in restaurants but I did see something similar for sale in gallon jugs. I do have a distant relative near the middle of NC that sometimes sells BBQ made with it. That stuff is good on anything that walks but I still prefer mustard on pork. Mustard is really only good for pork and chicken. "The brew" makes the house smell funky when you make it though.

No matter what sauce is used the key to making great BBQ is to cook over hardwood and to let the sauce soak into the meat for at least an hour (preferably more) before serving. I hate restaurants that serve plain pork with bottles of sauce. We call that baked pork with sauce on the side, not BBQ.

 

[mjarrels]

I remember candy cigerettes!

mark

 

[two_bit_score]

I remember candy cigerettes!

mark

And chewing gum cigars.


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[two_bit_score]

OK, you want good butter? Make that great butter. Yup, that butter.

There is only one: Falfurrias Butter

Dairy Farmers of America

A TEXAS TRADITION SINCE 1909.

In Texas, butter is a big deal. That's why we make sure to continue the Texan family tradition of using Falfurrias® Butter. Its creamy, fresh taste always complements good old-fashioned home cooking.


BUT, I'm going to try to get some of that Kerry Gold Butter and try it.



TBS

 

[Johnny g]

Breakfast, Dinner & Supper?
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner?
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Supper?

Where I grew up, (farm community) it was Breakfast, Dinner, Supper, now its Breaky, Lunch, Dinner.

 

[Egon]

I don't know about the butter brands mentioned but that made back on the farm seemed real good to me. Even liked the buttermilk. If I recall right the home churned butter was made from cream that had been separated a bit more than usual.

 

[grnspot110]

FWIW...When I was in the 5th grade our teacher read aloud to us for thirty minutes after dinner. What she read was the complete series of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books...It was the best part of the day (theater of the mind)...I never watched the TV show...

Mom used to read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to us in fourth grade! Yes, I had my mother as a teacher in 4th & 6th grade, usually around 20 kids in the class, try that on for size! I think we ended up with 14 of us going through all 12 grades together!

Breakfast, dinner & supper here & school food was generally nasty!

It amazes me what some people think is good food now-a-days, I think it's mostly because many have never had "good food"!