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FSI, Thank you so much for the comment. I hope you like the recipe.
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 12:45 PM
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Thanks for the recipe!
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 17, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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Annicita, thank you so much for your comment. Did they give coupons out for gas?
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 9:11 AM
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Taps, my grandma had a chicken coup and she took care of the chickens and did whatever she did to them but I never saw any of it. I can tell you though that she made the best-fried chicken ever! I often wonder why my Grandma had to take care of the chickens. I wonder why my Grandpa never did? Thank goodness your Mom had the chickens because I know her fried chicken and chicken noodle soup was the best. I know you can feed a lot of people with those meals.
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 9:10 AM
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Oh yes, they rationed many things back then, including sugar and gas too!
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Annicita
on November 17, 2020 at 7:41 AM
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It was constantly changing as we had fried chicken every Sunday and chicken noodle soup inbetween. Mom was constantly killing, plucking and cleaning chickens. I always swore I would never do that, and I never did. When our chickens started being depleted, Dad would order more baby chicks. He had built a very small chicken house for the babies that had constant warming lights in cold weather and special feed for them.
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TAPS.
on November 17, 2020 at 7:06 AM
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Re: Oh yum. I have made potato patties, but not with meat.
Sassy, this is something I've never made but I'm going to try it. I'm always looking for new recipes and I like going back into the Depression-Era to find recipes. I'm learning about that time in history. I think I might search for recipes from the pioneer days too. I may come across some good recipes. I've always been interested in the pioneer days but even more so now.
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 6:34 AM
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Re: The 1940s - World War II was in full swing. Every able-bodied man over
Pat, thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it. It's amazing to me how people adapted to the difficult situation and learned how to survive I never knew about ration books. Thank goodness they had them. It sounds like England had a very hard time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. As I research Depression-Era recipes I find a lot of information about how people raised their families. The one thing that really stood out was how much they had to go without during the war.
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 6:26 AM
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Kabu, I'm going to try this recipe. It sounds good to me. My daughter Michelle was just like you when she was little. She never ate much. Thank you so much for your comment.
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 6:13 AM
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BC-A, thank you so much for your comment! You are always so kind to me!
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 6:11 AM
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Taps, thank you so much for your comment. I give your Mother credit for knowing how to stretch food. I would have never thought of scrambling eggs into chili. I bet there wasn't one morsel left when dinner was done. Thank goodness you had chickens so that you could always have eggs. Do you remember how many chickens you had?
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Goldiec
on November 17, 2020 at 6:10 AM
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Oh yum. I have made potato patties, but not with meat.
The recipe is an easy one too. Thanks for sharing it. 
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Sherri_G
on November 17, 2020 at 5:22 AM
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The 1940s - World War II was in full swing. Every able-bodied man over
the age of 18 - and some younger who lied about their age to get in service - was enlisted in the military and in Europe fighting the Nazis and their allies. Meat, sugar, leather, anything made of metal was rationed. Most people I knew grew victory gardens, and did their own canning. Mom would have to save sugar from her ration to use in making syrup to can peaches, etc. I remember mom complaining we grew out of our shoes before the new ration book arrived. You couldn't buy a fridge or a washer new because all the technology involved in making them was turned to the war effort, making tanks, jeeps and weapons. People knew when new supplies of toilet paper and food items were to be delivered and waited to buy them at the stores. It was tough here, but much worse in England where things were rationed even more stringently, plus which the enemy was bombing them and sending buzz bomb rockets to blitz London...
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Pat_B
on November 17, 2020 at 3:00 AM
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reads like something Mother would make on the farm way back when I was a little kid. They would eat it, I never hardly ate anything when I was a little girl.
posted by
Kabu
on November 16, 2020 at 10:34 PM
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Goldiec
You're a good cook.
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BC-A
on November 16, 2020 at 8:38 PM
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My mother used to make things like this when I was young to stretch out the meat for a family of seven children. She also would make chili and then scramble eggs into it to make it stretch. We always had eggs because we had chickens.
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TAPS.
on November 16, 2020 at 6:48 PM
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