Today’s post is a letter written by a resourceful farm woman with several young children. She shares her ideas on how to keep away the winter doldrums by allowing her children to plan a bit of fun for special days. Even today children can while away the long hours of a winter afternoon doing simple […]
“Life is SO much better with whipped cream on top.” ~Unknown Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream It turns out that Whipped Cream has been around for a long time. Records show that the Italians were whipping cream in the mid-1500s, with the French not too far behind. Evidently cooks used a handful of twigs or […]
Hello History Lovers! This time of year many of us overburden ourselves with stringent resolutions and preposterous goals for the upcoming new year. Juxtaposed to our intense resolution making is a poem published in The Farmer’s Wife–A Magazine For Farm Women on New Year’s Day 1933. Its message blesses the reader with a sense of […]
Hello History Lovers! The tradition of January White Sales was the inspiration of a Philadelphia department store mogul John Wanamaker in 1878. As a way of stimulating sales during a slow time of year, the White Sale offered customers excess bedding at discounted prices. Of course sheets at that time came in only one color–white–hence […]
“Life is SO much better with whipped cream on top.” ~Unknown Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream It turns out that Whipped Cream has been around for a long time. Records show that the Italians were whipping cream in the mid-1500s, with the French not too far behind. Evidently cooks used a handful of twigs or […]
“Life is SO much better with whipped cream on top.” ~Unknown Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream It turns out that Whipped Cream has been around for a long time. Records show that the Italians were whipping cream in the mid-1500s, with the French not too far behind. Evidently cooks used a handful of twigs or […]
Hello History Lovers! In today’s post, a Minnesota farm woman shares her determination to improve her character even if it takes a lifetime. Enjoy! I Shall Not Judge Judging other people is one thing I do that is unjust. “Judge not and you shall not be judged,” is a Bible truth I was taught as […]
They have a place– Crumbs. Singly–they mean little. Part of the whole–they have the same attributes. O crumbs from the Rich Man’s Table, what are you that we have not? You are not air, full and free. You are not water, clean and pure. You are not sunshine. Often you represent foolish desire–Waste, envy, or […]
Grocery Shopping in the 1920s Hello Friends! Grocery Ads this week offer various sweeteners from granulated sugar, sorghum syrup (similar to molasses), and maple-flavored pancake syrup. Cake flour and all-purpose flours are on sale just in time for holiday baking. Langlie’s meat department has several pork products in their ad. Dolva’s Cash Grocery has sweet […]
The proclaimed mission of The Farmer’s Wife magazine was to be the voice of and for farm women in politics, women’s suffrage, community development, improved education for rural children, agrarian and homemaking education for rural women, family recreation, and healthcare. The community created through The Farmer’s Wife magazine much like Facebook, Instagram, and Tic Tok […]
Hello Friends, A letter published in The Farmer’s Wife–A Magazine for Farm Women in November 1926 tells of a group of recent high school graduates who pooled their time, effort, and money to found a library association in their rural town. In order to purchase books they “got up” entertainments of every type within the […]
Levine Grocery Store 1920s, Minnesota Welcome Friends! Although rural women were very self-reliant in the 1920s there were some products that could not be produced on the farm such as sweeteners for baking. At that time bread, cakes, pies, and other desserts were considered just as important as meats, vegetables, fruits, and dairy products in […]
In preparing this post, I have gained a great appreciation for rural farm women from the 1920s. The effort required to get a turkey butchered and processed for Thanksgiving dinner is labor-intensive, not to mention the time, effort, and expense of raising the bird, to begin with. The text regarding processing turkeys comes from Ida […]
Hello Friends! In the following grocery ads from 1921, we not only find traditional Thanksgiving ingredients such as canned pumpkin, oysters, celery, and cranberries but there are great prices on enamel roasters that “make the old hen taste like a spring chicken” as well as aluminum cake pans, pie plates and measuring cups. For something […]