really old style living?

annie123

it's http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

.com takes you to a sales site for dehydrated food...yuck.

Ballymackeonan

There's an old Scottish poem - the wife of Auchtermuchty - where the husband (who likes a drink but not the cold) swaps roles with his wife. She goes out to plough on a winter's day and he stays indoors to look after the house. He has a really bad day - the goslings are eaten up, he can't get the butterr to churn, and when he checks on the children they're all filthy (he thought they would keep themselves clean...) and so on. When his wife comes back he has to admit that he'd prefer the ploughing to looking after the house any day! So you're right, NualaBuala!

NualaBuala

Ballymackeonan wrote: »

There's an old Scottish poem - the wife of Auchtermuchty - where the husband (who likes a drink but not the cold) swaps roles with his wife. She goes out to plough on a winter's day and he stays indoors to look after the house. He has a really bad day - the goslings are eaten up, he can't get the butterr to churn, and when he checks on the children they're all filthy (he thought they would keep themselves clean...) and so on. When his wife comes back he has to admit that he'd prefer the ploughing to looking after the house any day! So you're right, NualaBuala!

I just had to go and look it up ... it's a fab poem! I had a good laugh reading it! We were talking about dialects on the Preparing for Winter thread and I LOVE this!
http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/misc/poem2.htm




Edit: Mardatha, is that what it's like when you leave the RV in charge?!

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NualaBuala wrote: »

In the olden days, did folks sleep more in the winter? I'd be curious to know what hours they kept. I guess there was a big difference depending on your station in life. But say for farmers/smallholders?

We were a normal hard working family ie hardworking to get food on the table, pay the rates and just to live a hand to mouth existance and winter was the same as summer only worse in that they my parents, had to get up earlier to get things going for the cold day. Clothes soaking all night in freezing cold water in a bath and then somehow washed, mangled and hung to dry, only they hardly ever dried so washing became twice the chore in winter.

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annie123 wrote: »

it's http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

.com takes you to a sales site for dehydrated food...yuck.

you wouldn`t say yuk if you tasted my hm dehydrated orange slices or porcini

mardatha

No, the RV is a typical V (irgo) - he can do everything and do it better than everybody else . He'd have the place running like an army camp and the kids snapping to attention and scared to move. He does that with the GC. Never been in the army , just a born sergeant major LOL

annie123

kittie wrote: »

you wouldn`t say yuk if you tasted my hm dehydrated orange slices or porcine

I love porcini mushrooms:D

I agree kittie, home dehydrated foods are totally different, I dry some things but in the oven but feel free to send me samples

NualaBuala

kittie wrote: »

We were a normal hard working family ie hardworking to get food on the table, pay the rates and just to live a hand to mouth existance and winter was the same as summer only worse in that they my parents, had to get up earlier to get things going for the cold day. Clothes soaking all night in freezing cold water in a bath and then somehow washed, mangled and hung to dry, only they hardly ever dried so washing became twice the chore in winter.

Now that sounds REALLY tough. I had this romantic notion that winter was just knitting socks by the fire ... clearly not!

Mardatha I know a Virgo or two ... they can be VERY organised all right!!!

ceridwen

kittie wrote: »

you wouldn`t say yuk if you tasted my hm dehydrated orange slices or porcini

I was getting a bit confused there - having looked up the .com site and thought "huh - thats a commercial site"..

Kittie - do you dehydrate those orange slices with or without the peel on? and what way are you using them?

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with the peel and all neatly sliced with dangerous whatsitmecallit (doh, senior moment!!) and dehydrated 6 hours. 3 days ago I tore the flesh out and put with apples (dehydrated) under an eves pudding. Really lovely. I broke the peel into bits and put some with assorted dried fruits from julian groves and some into a cake. Absolutely fab, tasty result