My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
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Hens that quit laying ended up on the table as fried (in bacon grease) or chicken and dumplings. Cornbread and cold milk with sliced onions and pinto beans, fried okra, potatoes all kinds, stewed, fried, mashed. Silver Queen Corn from the garden, collard greens, turnip and mustard greens seasoned with bacon fat. We were money poor but we raised everything we had, pork, chicken and beef. We had a smokehouse where we cured hams by hanging them from the ceiling after coating them in salt. Had shelves in the smokehouse where we stored our canned bounty from the three gardens we had. Our favorite meal in the winter was breakfast for supper, liver mush, bacon, scrambled eggs, stone ground grits and homemade skillet bread. Oh my! We were rich!
SILVER QUEEN CORN IN YOUR GARDEN!! You were rich!!
Blessed to have been born and raised in the south!
You have no idea how envious I am!
Me too.
I used to pick silver queen for my neighbor when I was a kid in Maryland. I've been looking for it for years and haven't been able to find it (I don't go back to MD).
My wife makes silver queen corn, freezes it, we have it all year long
I still do when I can find it. That’s the only thing we grew when I was growing up. We did also grow a type yellow corn that our horse and mules loved. It was just thrown into a corn crib and was hard and dried with the husks still on. Where I’m living now, you ask for silver queen and they look at you funny. Same state, different region. They have a hideous white yellow mixed hybrid here.