A lady I used to care for told me when she and her siblings went to school, their mom would bake a bunch of potatoes. Then each kid would take two potatoes to school. In the winter this came in handy as hand warmers on the way to school. At lunch they ate them.
My family ancestors my grandparents Catholics had lots of kids. So they didn't always have shoes for each child. So they would pack a big picnic basket bread. And anything else if they had it scraps go off to school the kids would trade wearing shoes every few days. So that they could all get a little education. And that's how it was a hundred years ago. Holy moly actually 110 120 years ago I'm 60 that's mind-blowing still those stories are precious.
Tessie and friends.. A few years back I bought a huge box of tomatoes for ONLY $4... I had some onions and green peppers left over.. I made stewed tomatoes with all of these things adding garlic and some fresh herbs. I cooked everything really quickly meaning not all the way. I then bagged it all up in small plastic bags and froze them. Let me tell you all..... Come winter I took a bag and tossed it over some chicken legs and into the oven... OMG 😱 what a treat that was, it tasted like a summer Day! I had no idea what I was doing.... LoL I'd never done anything like that before. I just was trying to take advantage of the great tomato deal.... I also blended up some and froze that as well... Tomato sauce/start to so many meals.
My Mom got her first freezer in 1953 and those were the boxes she had. She recycled other containers to save money. My parents were married in 1931, (Depression))the first ten years were a struggle. I was born 12 years later so my life was easier than my three older brothers. One of my favorite dishes she made was from those Depression years. Her home canned quartered tomatoes with a can of her tomato juice, a little sugar to cut the acid and dumplings added when they started to boil. The dumplings were made from a softer version of biscuit dough--Yum Yum! Your bread made me want to run in the kitchen and make some, looks so delicious. Tessie, you would have gotten thru the Depression just fine and your family would have been well fed.
That reminds me of a delicious tomato dish my mother made.....it was chopped canned tomatoes with a dab of sugar and bacon grease, and stale bread added. It would be a lot like your dumplings. I never make it because my husband didn't like it.
@@countrygal3688 I think all the housewives in the Depression era made these similar dishes to keep their family fed. I bet your Moms was delicious, especially to hungry family on a cold winter night, which is when I remember Mom serving ours.
I love hearing stories about how people survived the Great Depression. Valuable information! My parents and grandparents had many stories about the shortages and ways to make-do.
You look adorable in your brown today. My husband spent 91$ on 4 bags of groceries at Walmart last night. Think I’ll buy a couple roses and give it a try making rose sugar. I’m hoping my roses bloom next year. They almost died this year from the extreme heat in The South.
I also am fascinated by the cooks during the Great Depression. Though it is a Hollywood version, I love the Waltons and a glimpse that gives into that time in our country's history.
Today I canned up 2 pints of tomatillo salsa, and I have a part of a jar in the fridge. Not much but these days who wants to waste anything? The sugar is sure pretty to look at too!
Here is a hint Tessie.......if you fold down the top zipper edge, it will save the top from getting messy and it will zip closed and stay sealed better. I line up bowls, place the opened bags in, with tops turned down, then fill. So much easier for me to do it this way. When I zip the closure, I insert a straw into the last bit, suck out the air, then finish closing.
I watched a video where they had a large container of water... They would seal the bags, leaving a tiny spot open and lower them into the water. The water forced all the air out then they finished sealing them! Looks like it worked great. I haven't tried it yet.
When I read the comments on the channels I watch, I realize that so many of the things we do invoke memories of childhood. Good and/or bad ones. When you’re just living your life, you don’t always realize you’re making memories not only for yourself but your children, spouse, and others around you. As I’m getting older, it has made me more aware of making each day one that if looked back on, will be a good memory. I want to be thankful for every day, every strength, everything the Lord has blessed me with.
Good Morning Tessie, Sisters, Brothers, and Friends:-) Wish you all a wonderful blessed Tuesday filled with Gods Joy and Happiness :-) Remember to pray for one another and for all around the world :-) God Bless You ! Love you all :-) Keep smiling be safe :-)
Great vid as always Tessie, my husband finally see’s the savings I am doing with canning, dehydrating , garden, meat and layer chickens he use to be so Angry over my buying jars and equipment I needed but now seeing the savings , it took these high prices in grocery stores to see it though. He is a trucker and I put 1 freezer meal for him every dinner for his small chest freezer in upper bunk that I bought for him ( he gripped about that also but installed it) he stayed out 90 days ran out of meals and hit Walmart to keep him going till he could get home… that’s when his eyes got opened wide as he use to spend 80.00 week and that turned into 168.00 for same exact items…now he encourages me and said you were smart and saw what was coming and I didn’t believe you baby sorry.
Lemon Verbena sugar that sounds great I bet it smells wonderful. I'm sure some people would say they didn't use bread makers back in the 1800s, but I would say they would if they had one.
See when you say miserly cooking it makes me smile. Cause I remember my grandmas pinto beans and fried potatoes with onions, and corn bread! Yummy. By the way …. Love the glasses💝
I'm from Oklahoma and we have this meal at least once a week! LoL, now that potatoes have gotten so expensive I add summer squash and either green or red tomatoes and onion to make the potatoes stretch a little farther, I call it sucatash, not sure if that is what sucatash is but it's what I call it and my family loves it! P.s. it is all fried in either real lard or bacon grease, the flavor is over the top!!
My grandmother grew up in the Depression Era and she taught us to waste nothing. She'd say waste not want not. I do the same thing because like you said you never know what the future holds.
What a creative thing to use your roses for Tessie . It looks beautiful in the jar too. I like your freezer boxes so much easier to stack nicely in the freezer. Have a blessed day friend
At the drive thru food pantry events I got 6 big bags of frozen peas. I canned most of them. I will not let any food go to waste if I can preserve it some way.
@@HomesteadTessie HE WAS ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW. WE GET THE DECADES CHANNEL WHERE THEY HAVE OLD TV SHOWS. WE DON'T HAVE CABLE WE HAVE WHAT IS CALLED "OVER THE AIR" CHANNELS.
@@owen4248 HI OWEN YES ED THAT WAS ONE OF THE SONGS HE SANG. I WAS AMAZED OF THE TIMING OF HIS SONG AND ME WATCHING TESSIE TALKING ABOUT HER ROSE RECIPE. SO COOL. 🥰🥰🥰
Happy Monday Tessie. My Great parents lived through the great depression. Grandpa worked as a janitor in our small town school. Grandma kept the home and fed 6 children and sometimes neighbors. Grandpa had a garden and my Grandma canned and had a root cellar.
I remember those freezer boxes. Most frozen vegetables were packaged using them. Now a days, they have been replaced with microwave packaging. Some veggies still come in the boxes. I prefer the old way. Once again Tessie, you taught me something new. Never heard of rose sugar. 🙂
Ms Tessie - Economizing or simply living a simple life is so ingrained in your life style that I'm not sure you know how blessed you are compared to those trudging up and down the regular grocery store aisles. I know you know you have blessings which keep you relatively well to well fed, keep you from having too many idle moments (lol), and even keep you in some creature comforts despite being cash low. Like Henny Penny, the chicken who worked hard day and night to bring in the harvest and get ready for winter, you are do much the same. The retail cost of many of the things in your daily life are upto astronomical. Your rose sugar is a classic example. Rose, vanilla, and the other flavored sugars are in those older recipies, many current European recipies, and chef-made recipies too.
Oh Tessie, rose sugar sounds amazing! I will have to try that next year as I had to cut back my rose bushes back last week due to the snow and freezing weather we've had. My grandparents lived through the depression. My dad's parents were young adults and my mom's parents were children. Unfortunately, my parents were the babies of the family so I was little when my grandparents all passed. That knowledge would have been so good to have. The only thing that I know my grandma did was what all did, saved aluminum foil. Knowing how my dad's mom cooked would have been wonderful. Two meals I know she would make was a bowl of cooked rice with cinnamon sugar and milk, and a simple potato soup: potatoes, rice, water/milk, butter, salt&pepper, and onion powder. Simple meals that tasted good. I enjoy your daily videos. God Bless!💜
Growing up, before zoloc bags, we froze everything! Corn was the messiest! Sticky, sugary! My job was to fold the boxes, and wipe them before they went into the freezer. Was so happy when I graduated from boxer to bagger. My sister made the boxes, I put the bags into the box, folded down over the sides. All the while our Mom was blanching and cutting the corn off the cobs. Love your channel!❤
I use dried roses for black tea… amazing and refreshing for 5 o'clock tea… and rose water for making my own marcipane. We have a small garden, but always a big amount of tomatoes and cucumbers. They never become bad… I freeze tomato sauce and prepare simple cucumber pickles in case I’ve too many. We never are tired of this. When we met first time about 50 years ago, hubby and I noticed immediately that a slice of bread with butter, tomato slices, cut onions, salt and pepper is our favorite treat…and it remained until today! Love, Monika❣
To save space, I've took air out of a filled labeled freezer bags, pushed flat & froze. Saved space. The boxes I thrifted were used for lasagne in cheap storage bags & square meat patties froze flat.
Tessie over the last three years that I had been subscribed to your channel you had taught me so much about homestead living and I want to personally thank you
Whir the roses and sugar in the blender for a beautiful pink tinted sugar. The whirring (warming friction action of the blender) releases the oils in the petals and concentrates the flavor and tints the sugar beautifully!❤ works with Lavender also.
You have inspired me to cook more from scratch. I started using my bread machine to make bread with white whole wheat flour and my family loves it. I got it from Goodwill for $5 and it works perfectly. I love your videos dear friend and sister in Christ!
🚨 I need to say this There has been over 4 thousand views for this video. However ONLY 900 thumbs up I don't understand If you watch her.... You must like her... Why not hit that button and help her? I see this everywhere I've never understood 🤨 All these content creators work really hard doing these for our behalf and entertainment. Why not help them?
I liked the old freezer boxes . Thinking back, I remember my grandma filling many boxes of strawberries, which sure tasted good over cake and ice cream in the winter. I also liked the plastic square pint and quart boxes from the 60s. It made much more sense when food was put in them leaving much less space than many rounded off boxes that came out later.
Rose sugar is very old and its been a time since I had heard it mentioned. All we had when I was young was the freezer boxes. They were much better than using just the bags with the twis ties. When my mother-in-law passed away, we cleaned out her freezer and low and behold found cash in those freezer boxes! She lived during the depression so I guess she trusted her freezer better than the bank! So, there's more than one way to use freezer boxes! Great video Tessie with great memories for me! Blessings 🥰
We do not know these freezer boxes here in France, I freeze my ready to eat meals and veggies in small alu boxes with cardbord lids to write on. But as electricity spikes, I plan to get rid of the freezer and can only. Warm water production has to change, too, as electric is too expensive now. I finally got an old woodstove, my prayers were heard. It will help to heat the house and go more off-grid. A huge waterkettle will make hot water in winter, and one day, solar will help to do the job in summer...small steps to become more independent and self sufficient...much love!
I freezers most of my food and the do the canning in fall and winter. Plus make a month worth of meals ahead. Sure is nice just reheat and maybe add something that complete the meal. Thanks Tessie. 😊
Tessie I have been watching some depression meals on you tube so I can be better prepared with our food. Your roes remind me of my grandmother . She always had beautiful flowers. Rose sugar. Sounds good.
Tessie, I like those food boxes a neat way to keep food That bread looks delicious too :-) I don't have roses anymore it's been very cold at night I had the first frost here though it may warm up some in a few days :-) Love you my sister :-) God Bless You and Ken :-)
The boxes are supposed to be used with the Hefty freezer bags with twist ties. As they freeze they make everything uniform (brick shaped) and then take the boxes off. Or at least that’s how my grandmother used them.
That's a Thrifty idea 💡 Then you don't need as many boxes. Though I'm sure the boxes add extra protection from freezer burn, but you could double bag after freezing or use foil.👍😊❣️
Tessie I am fascinated with the rose sugar. I've never had it or heard about it. I would like to try to make it one day. Thank you for showing me how. You also showed me how to make rose water and I think another rose product but I forgot what it was. I'll rewatch the older video and find it. Thank you. 👍💙
when onions are dehydrated - very like even a little lightly browned- then crush them up and you have preservative free onion soup mix ..but better! also mushroom powder can add that beefiness .......your vegetables are GORGEOUS!
Hi Tessie The bread looks delicious. Your humming reminds me of my Mom. I dont know of anyone else who hums. She always did it when she was happy. I have never had rose sugar. God Bless!
Yes my Mama too my Mama didn't have a very good singing voice but the amazing memories I have of her will linger in my mind forever she would sing her heart out to God and it was the most precious music to my ears
Thank you for sharing the sugar. So interesting. You will never guess what I was stitching when the music came on? A nutcracker ornament. Too fun. God Bless You!
Thanks for the tip on discount grocery stores. I mostly shop at Walmart but the prices rise every time I shop! It’s scary! I remember my grandma who lived through the Great Depression always telling us kids not to waste food. Now I try not to either
Hi Tessie 😍 ! I'm watching & enjoying your video. Any Fresh Tomatoes frozen, are a prize possession in ones Dinner menu 😋. Tip: (I'm sure that you have a 2-cup Measuring Cup) - Fold the top of a One Quart Freezer Bag over a Measuring Cup, Ladle Tomatoes/Sauce into the Baggie. Fold, Seal & Freeze. Back to your video.
@@HomesteadTessie You could improvize & use anything to seat a baggie that could be folded over the top. Something that would "Free-up" a hand to make it easier filling baggies 😊.
My Grandma lived through the great depression. They lived on their farm, so they always had food. She said the town people were the ones starving. Everybody traded, food for work etc. She paid the Doctor with potatoes when he delivered my Aunt.
My great grandmother told me the same thing, the people in the city were the worse off. She lived in the country on a little farm and told me that she never knew any difference
Thank you Tessie for your wonderful content. I watched a couple of your yesterday and it reminds me of my own regular life. Much of my life was in a trailer and they were some of the best times. The rose sugar looks so pretty. I think they would make neat gifts.
Rose sugar I don't think I've ever heard of it I've heard of rose flavored syrup. Which I suppose is just melted down rose sugar. Well it's fun cause I'm always learning something new.
Those wax boxes my Nana saved every one in her bushel basket in her complete basement Italian kitchen Lol she used plastic bags. We washed everyone hung them on her basement clothes line. Blue painters tape is what I use for freezer foods jars just about anything😂 It’s reusable too in most instances
Tessie, I go to 3 or 4 different stores in my area. Very close together. I went to Walmart today. I am asking where is the lunch meat? But God is in control. Not worried. The next store has plenty. I am shopping very carefully. I have 3 butcher shops around me. I am making a list of just what I need for that week. Making a lot of my own stuff, No buying pies. Cakes. Cheaper to make your own. This week for a meal is a large head of Cabbage, potatoes and meat. Fried hot dogs, or a hamburger, or no meat at all. Maybe 2 meals for about $5.00 or less. Plus staying away from the big box stores. Now that will cost me hundreds of dollars.
Imagine what my grandparents had to do to take care of their 12 kids during the depression. My grandfather was a carpenter. No houses were being. No income.
I love hearing you read about how people used to live. I'm grateful I haven't experienced such hardship but I believe I could do it if necessary. Oh and I've never seen freezer boxes like these! Wow! Thanks Tessie!
Your roses are beautiful, Tessie! Sugared roses - interesting. I once made Rose Hip Tea. It tasted like perfume! lol Not that I have ever actually tasted perfume!
Hi Tessie! Here is the recipe I use to make my own onion soup mix powder. 3/4 cup dried minced onion 1/3 cup beef boulion powder 1/4 tsp celery seed 1 TBSP dried parsley flakes 4 TBSP dried onion powder 5TBSP=1 pkg onion soup mix I make as many of our own mixes as I can...love your videos!
Your bread sure looked yummy! When I was watching you ladle the tomatoes into the bags I had a flashback memory of my Mom doing that but she had a little plastic frame that held the bag open. I know it was not zip loc style bags though
I remember when we had to use bread ties to close them. 🫣 They we’re so slippery and messy. The ties would slide off sometimes when your food was still soft if you didn’t get them on tight enough. Ugh!! So thankful for zip ties. Sometimes,it’s the small things. 👩🌾♥️
