Al fresco dining

Two of my best memories of the 40s:

1. Sitting on the ground in a patch of ripe tomatos with a salt shaker.

2. Sitting on the ground under a tree of sweet ripe peaches with a knife for removing bad spots.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

when we lived out in the country we had a picnic table under the black jack trees and a trash burner wood stove that had been removed from the house, sometimes we’d cook hamburgers or something out on that stove. I would get up in the summer and take a skillet out there and put some wood in the stove and cook eggs and beans and some other food and eat at the picnic table. Food tasted better that way cooked over wood and sitting outside and eating it.

Nelladell · 80-89, F

@cherokeepatti We had a different appreciation for food cooked over wood. The first thing you grabbed was a skillet, and the first thing we grabbed was an axe. 😀

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Nelladell we always had trees that needed the lower branches trimmed off and they were easy to chop up and use to cook with.

Nelladell · 80-89, F

@cherokeepatti Oh, gee. lol. here we go again. You trimmed and chopped up branches. Some time before we needed the wood for cooking or heating, we hitched the team to the wagon, put in the axe and the two-man cross-cut saw, drove to the timber -- and so on.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Nelladell the blackjack trees were small. We didn’t need firewood to heat the house, used the trimmed small branches to cook with outside. Didn’t have to buy charcoal that way.