I haven’t had this. If you want to start cooking from scratch it’s way better than processed food. I’ve been slack over the years and trying to get back to it. I love to bake. I highly recommend a kitchenaid stand mixer. I’ve made pizza dough, cakes for scratch, cookies etc. They aren’t cheap but worth it. Even a used one would be a good buy. When I was growing up my grandma made lots of baked goods from scratch. I still make the apple pie she made. Sadly I’m the only one in the family that learned her recipes.

I like watching these videos. They cook automatically American food the way it was cooked over a fire. What I like is every ingredient is fresh. You can adjust cooking time to your oven with an online research.

https://youtube.com/c/EarlyAmerican

This is such an awesome thread. I am in my mid 50's now raised my 2 daughters mostly single. Both like to cook and I have been trying really hard for the last 6 years or so to get them to cook their own food rather than eat fast food and prepackaged. I love cooking for my family and I have for a long time. Making food from scratch is just so much better than the fake gross stuff at the markets. I shudder to think of all of the "injected" garbage that is in it to make us sick and addicted. Lucille, I agree with you on the loss of beauty and tradition. Feminism tore into women's psyche diminishing what it meant to be a woman. There is no reason for us to not be paid what we are worth or work in fields that were untraditional. Those changes have been positive but the whole idea of I can be a man, act like a man, etc. Gross.....And let's not forget the change in masculinity. This has been horrible for men. Now it is men in skirts and men who can be pregnant, have boobs, whatever.....This has been an outright attack on humanity to eliminate males/females. Everyone will be and look the same, wear the same clothes....virtually indistinguishable other than facial features/hair & skin color. They will be eliminating natural births and going to machines that grow babies. I can see this science fiction garbage coming to fruition unless WE stand up now and say HELL NO! I pray this is turned around and we get back to the honest times you mention. Sorry if I got too political. Great post!

My mother used to make this, called Apple Kuchen (which just means apple cake). Try it; it's really good.

I can’t eat pie LOL which is why I looked at the video. I watch a lot of food channels on yt. Lately, one has been coming up on historic food prep. Anyway, Jordan Peterson talks about how things changed with women in the workforce, how only about 50% of women at 30 yrs are having kids which is very concerning because the population is going to continue to decrease exponentially (without the left even trying with their plans) and how lack of a father figure in families has had such a detrimental effect on kids. He’s worth checking out.

I struggle with this a lot. It’s so hard to meet a woman with the same values that I have. I think most people think I’m extremely old fashioned but when you sit back and watch families being destroyed, kids as young as one with phones or tablets and parents farming out everything to others instead of doing the work themselves, filling their kids with junk/processed, soy laden foods and garbage schooling. Oh, I could go on and on. But there is a lot to be said for good, old fashioned home cooked food and beautiful pies, such as what you posted. They’re an example of the dedication, time and care that goes into feeding others. I guess based on what comes up on my video feed, there are people out there working at bringing it back. That’s positive.