The video is titled "Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past," and in it, narrator Constance Carter shares some of the clever ways that housewives of yesteryear managed to feed their families during hard times. I was especially intrigued by the substitutions for tea, and if you click on the video here, around the 10:30 mark, you'll find out what some of these were!
(And for my fellow history lovers, you can also find a link to the transcript here.)
Fascinating! I do remember how thrifty my mother was. Everytime she took butter out of the paper she made sure to clean all the butter off the paper with a knife. I also remember dandelion coffee. And my mother and sister would hand used teabags on the clothes line to dry and then reuse them another day.
ReplyDeleteI think today's young people need to be reminded - everything is so disposable now -
ReplyDeletethere's waste that would make my grandparents cry.
My mom always saved soap scraps - hundreds of them, then would melt them all down, add more scent and form her own "soap balls." My mom was more a crafty DIYer then thrifty, but I remember thinking how cool that was.
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